My power is on now in Barrie Ont Canada after being out for 18 hrs. They say 50% of Toronto has power but it may go back off any time if there are further problems.
Good research. How about this. The Germans bombed London for 9 months and only killed at most 10,000 people. Their bombers had a very small payload compared to what the allies developed. Their biggest raid was on 10 May 1941, 550 bombers dropped 700 tons of bombs on London and killed 1500 people. In revenge the British bombed every single city in Germany(and many in France). On 13-14 Feb they used 800 bombers to drop 2,500 tons of bombs(half illegal white phosourous) on Dresden which killed 135,000 and destroyed the whole city. The fire storms in Japan killed even more. There is no indication that bombing European cities and killing women and children ever shortened the war by even a day.
Go to google and enter weapons of mass destruction.
If you hit search you get the regular results but if you hit - I'm feeling lucky - you are directed to a very special page. Read it closely. Its hilarious.
Reducing collateral damage is becoming more and more important as military planners realize that the war is not over once you capture the territory. You want to win over a people's hearts and minds by changing the regime but not levelling their cities a la carpet bombing Dresden in WWII. Killing citizens does not shorten a war and the London Blitz and Berlin showed that enemy soldiers will fight harder if they know their families are being killed too.
There are lots of different types of bombs that try to reduce collateral damage. The most infamous was the Neutron bomb that limited a nuclear bomb's blast and heat damage to a few hundred yards but killed people through the use of radiation. The electric power distribution munition(ph), can knock out a whole power grid. This bomb scatters spools of carbon strands over a target. In Vietnam the US developed Hyper baric Fuel Air bombs that used a high pressure wave to kill people in tunnels or create helicopter landing pads in the jungle. The latest improved version is the thermo baric bomb that uses extremely high temperatures to create a blast wave and also suck the oxygen out of enclosed spaces.
War is not glorious but it is necessary from time to time and if you can defeat the enemy without killing non-combatants, I am all for it.
I did a google search and one of the articles said that an estimated 60 million Americans are infected with T. Gondii. You are right, I would say that is epidemic proportions.
In the movie 28 Days, a virus causes those infected with it to turn into killers. It turns out that there is an amoebic parasite called T. gondiithat actually manipulates the behavior of its intermediate host, the rat, to reach its ultimate target, the cat. Rats become infected with T. gondiii by eating infected beetles or worms. Once infected, the rats lose their fear of cats and become aggressive towards them and thereby becoming dinner for the cat. The parasite is then passed on to the cat where it reproduces in the cats brain but does not appear to change any of the cat's behaviours. After a time, the parasite leaves the cat via its feces where it is picked up by bettles and worms and the cycle starts again. The scary thing is that all mammals are susceptible to infection by T. Gondii, however for now it appears that the amoebas can reproduce only within members of the cat family.
So while there are infections like rabies that cause madness, it appears T. Gondii only affects the select behaviours in rats it needs in order continue as a species. There are societies where people eat cats and/or rats. I wonder how long it will be before T. Gondii evolves to affect humans?
There is a good article at space.com and more details with pictures at the Eurocket site. The Globe and Mail notes that the mission set a record for having 9 payloads and placing 8 satelites in orbit.
Everyone except the US uses metric so here are some quick conversions:
University of Maine Model of Solar System scale 1 - 93,000,000 (93 mil miles = 149,668,992 km)
Sun Diameter: 50 ft (15.12 m)
Mercury Diameter: 2.1 inches. 0.4 mi. from Sun (.643 km)
Venus Diameter: 5.2 inches 0.7 mile from Sun (1.13km) Earth Diameter: 5.5 inches 1 mile from sun - (1.609km) Moon Diameter: 1.5" 16ft from earth Mars Diameter: 2.9 inches 1.5 miles from Sun (3.9km) Jupiter Diameter: 61.4 inches (5 feet)
* Location: 5.3 mile from Sun (8.5km)
* Moons:
o Io (diameter 1.6 inches, 182 inches [15+ feet] from Jupiter axis)
o Europa (diameter 1.3 inches, 289 inches [24+ feet] from Jupiter axis)
o Ganymede (diameter 2.3 inches, 461 inches [38+ feet] from Jupiter axis)
o Callisto (diameter 2.1 inches, 811 inches [67+ feet] from Jupiter axis)
Saturn Diameter: 51.9 inches
* Location: (9.7 miles from Sun)(15.6 km)
* Inner Ring Diameter 63 inches
* Outer Ring Diameter 117 inches (10 feet) * Moon Titan (diameter 2.2 inches,526 inches [43+ feet] from Saturn axis)
Uranus Diameter: 22 inches * Location: 19.5 miles from Sun (31.4km)
Neptune Diameter: 21.3 inches * Location: 30.6 miles from Sun (49.25km)
Pluto Diameter: 1 inch Location: 40 miles from Sun 64.4 * Moon Charon (diameter 0.5 inch, 8.5 inches from planet axis)
Canadians Practiced Nuke Lobbing Also
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Our political masters tend to portray the Canadian Armed Forces as only peace keepers but the worst kept secret is our nuclear heritage. We had nuclear tipped Genie, Honest John and BOMARC missiles and from 1961 to 1984 Canadian Pilots based in Germany also practiced for the nuclear strike role with their CF-104 Star Fighter. Known as the 'missile with a man in it' or the 'widow maker' it was very fast -Mach 2.2 - but not very manuverable. 37 Canadian pilots died while practicing low level flying. A friend of mine described how they were briefed on how to use safe corridors to get to the target but the route for the return trip was up to them. Needless to say he figured if he ever had to do it for real, it was going to be a one way fight. He said that there was curtains in the cockpit to block the flash. The starfighter was fast enough to out run the blast but he said once you climbed above tree top level the missiles would probally get you.
I was in the Army in Germany in the 70's and we practiced snowballs or bugging out to get our vehicles as far away from the base as fast as possible before the Russian nukes or chemical strike hit. It is hard to descibe but when you heard those sirens going off at 3 in the morning, you never knew if it was a drill or the real thing. Thank God that no one ever 'pushed the button' for real.
I guess 22 dead is a tragedy and 75 million is just a statistic. Something like 3% of the HIV positive population causes 95% of the new infections. These people should be charged with murder as they knowingly have unprotected sex with multiple partners every night. But then why should they care? They are already living under a death sentence. Why should the drug companies care? They are making Billions selling expensive drug cocktails to prolong the lives of those who care afford it.
Wow 750 infected and 22 dead. How about the millions dead from AIDs? This study says that after 22 years of education 14.7 percent -- one in seven -- of gay and bisexual black men ages 23 to 29 become HIV-positive each year. Since the discovery of AIDS -- first reported in a 1981 government health bulletin as a strange form of pneumonia -- there have been about 750,000 reported cases in America. Nearly 450,000 of those patients have died.
The Washington Post reports that world wide there are now 42 million people living with HIV infection and by 2010 there will be between 50 million and 75 million cases of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in India, China, Ethiopia, Nigeria and Russia alone.
Why was AIDs not decleared a contagious disease back in 1981 and infected people quaratined? Were the rights of a few worth more than the rights of 75 million?
The reason the Iraqi Army has not done so well is simple. They learned all their tactics from the Russians who taught them to retreat, retreat, retreat until the snow comes, then attack.
- In the war of 1812, started by America, Canadians pushed the Americans back...past their 'White House'. Then we burned it...and most of Washington, under the command of William Lyon McKenzie who was insane and hammered all the time. We got bored because they ran away, so we came home and partied...Go figure..
Some of the other things Canadians can be proud of:
- Canada has the largest French population that never surrendered to Germany. - We have the largest English population that never ever surrendered or withdrew during any war to anyone, anywhere. - Our civil war was a bar fight that lasted a little over an hour. - The only person who was arrested in our civil war was an American mercenary, who slept in and missed the whole thing... but showed up just in time to get caught. - We knew plaid was cool far before Seattle caught on. - The Hudsons Bay Company once owned over 10% of the earth's surface and is still around as the world ' s oldest company. - The average dog sled team can kill and devour a full grown human in under 3 minutes. - We still know what to do with all the parts of a buffalo. - We don't marry our kin-folk. - We invented ski-doos, jet-skis, velcro, zippers, insulin, penicillin, zambonis, the telephone and short wave radios that save countless lives each year. - We ALL have frozen our tongues to something metal and lived to tell about it. - - A Canadian invented Superman. - Smarties
- Crispy Crunch, Coffee Crisp - The size of our footballs fields and one less down - Baseball is Canadian - Lacrosse is Canadian - Hockey is Canadian - Basketball is Canadian - Apple pie is Canadian - Mr. Dress-up kicks Mr. Rogers ass - Tim Hortons kicks Dunkin' Donuts ass . The handles on our beer cases are big enough to fit your hands with mitts on. Oh yeah... and our elections only take one day.
You have to phone in to get a new activation key for each time you install Quicken XG. What is worse is that your license to use online banking or update is only good for 1 year and then you have to pay a fee to renew your subscription. If I had known that I would not have upgraded from Quicken 2002.
Trying to play for a win, Kasparov sacrificed an exchange for two pawns. Unexpectedly Kasparov offered a draw soon after the sacrifice, and the computer team declined! But two moves later a surprise draw was in fact agreed.
As Tartakover would say: It's always better to sacrifice your opponent's men.
Re:Ants + Zero Gravity + Bag of Chips = Disaster
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Kent Brockman reports on Channel Six.
Kent: We're just about to get our first pictures from inside the
spacecraft with "average-naut" Homer Simpson, and we'd like to
-- aah!
[Camera shows a close-up of an ant floating in front of the
three astronauts] Kent: Ladies and gentlemen, er, we've just lost the picture, but,
uh, what we've seen speaks for itself. The Corvair spacecraft
has been taken over -- "conquered", if you will -- by a master
race of giant space ants. It's difficult to tell from this
vantage point whether they will consume the captive earth men
or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain, there is no
stopping them; the ants will soon be here.
And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to
remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful
in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar
caves.
You can see a picture of the Moller skycar here The story says that they are flying off the tether now but for insurance reasons they test over a 6 acre lake. They must be getting close as they are talking about the 'production engines'.
The best part of seeing Nemesis was not the dune buggy chase. If 600 years from now that is the best design they can come up with it is very sad. Why use energy weapons when they always miss? Why jump into the shuttle when they just had to se it down 20 ft closer? I could go on about all the scenes but many did not make sense. I have come to the conclusion that the best thing I seen last night was the previews for Dare Devil, 25th hour and National Security. They look good but then again they always put the good parts in the previews. I guess thats why the previews are the best part.
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My power is on now in Barrie Ont Canada after being out for 18 hrs. They say 50% of Toronto has power but it may go back off any time if there are further problems.
Good research. How about this. The Germans bombed London for 9 months and only killed at most 10,000 people. Their bombers had a very small payload compared to what the allies developed. Their biggest raid was on 10 May 1941, 550 bombers dropped 700 tons of bombs on London and killed 1500 people. In revenge the British bombed every single city in Germany(and many in France). On 13-14 Feb they used 800 bombers to drop 2,500 tons of bombs(half illegal white phosourous) on Dresden which killed 135,000 and destroyed the whole city. The fire storms in Japan killed even more. There is no indication that bombing European cities and killing women and children ever shortened the war by even a day.
Not a hack but much funnier:
Go to google and enter weapons of mass destruction.
If you hit search you get the regular results but if you hit - I'm feeling lucky - you are directed to a very special page. Read it closely. Its hilarious.
Reducing collateral damage is becoming more and more important as military planners realize that the war is not over once you capture the territory.
You want to win over a people's hearts and minds by changing the regime but not levelling their cities a la carpet bombing Dresden in WWII. Killing citizens does not shorten a war and the London Blitz and Berlin showed that enemy soldiers will fight harder if they know their families are being killed too.
There are lots of different types of bombs that try to reduce collateral damage. The most infamous was the Neutron bomb that limited a nuclear bomb's blast and heat damage to a few hundred yards but killed people through the use of radiation.
The electric power distribution munition(ph), can knock out a whole power grid. This bomb scatters spools of carbon strands over a target. In Vietnam the US developed Hyper baric Fuel Air bombs that used a high pressure wave to kill people in tunnels or create helicopter landing pads in the jungle. The latest improved version is the thermo baric bomb that uses extremely high temperatures to create a blast wave and also suck the oxygen out of enclosed spaces.
War is not glorious but it is necessary from time to time and if you can defeat the enemy without killing non-combatants, I am all for it.
I did a google search and one of the articles said that an estimated 60 million Americans are infected with T. Gondii. You are right, I would say that is epidemic proportions.
In the movie 28 Days, a virus causes those infected with it to turn into killers. It turns out that there is an amoebic parasite called T. gondiithat actually manipulates the behavior of its intermediate host, the rat, to reach its ultimate target, the cat. Rats become infected with T. gondiii by eating infected beetles or worms. Once infected, the rats lose their fear of cats and become aggressive towards them and thereby becoming dinner for the cat. The parasite is then passed on to the cat where it reproduces in the cats brain but does not appear to change any of the cat's behaviours. After a time, the parasite leaves the cat via its feces where it is picked up by bettles and worms and the cycle starts again. The scary thing is that all mammals are susceptible to infection by T. Gondii, however for now it appears that the amoebas can reproduce only within members of the cat family.
So while there are infections like rabies that cause madness, it appears T. Gondii only affects the select behaviours in rats it needs in order continue as a species. There are societies where people eat cats and/or rats. I wonder how long it will be before T. Gondii evolves to affect humans?
There is a good article at space.com and more details with pictures at the Eurocket site. The Globe and Mail notes that the mission set a record for having 9 payloads and placing 8 satelites in orbit.
Did anybody else notice that the name of the RIAA lawyer that signed the order of dismissal is Daniel F. Kunz?
Of course the scale has a unit. It is one mile to 93 mil miles. Did you think 1 inch to 93 mil inches would work?
Everyone except the US uses metric so here are some quick conversions:
University of Maine Model of Solar System scale 1 - 93,000,000 (93 mil miles = 149,668,992 km)
Sun Diameter: 50 ft (15.12 m)
Mercury Diameter: 2.1 inches. 0.4 mi. from Sun (.643 km)
Venus Diameter: 5.2 inches 0.7 mile from Sun (1.13km)
Earth Diameter: 5.5 inches 1 mile from sun - (1.609km)
Moon Diameter: 1.5" 16ft from earth
Mars Diameter: 2.9 inches 1.5 miles from Sun (3.9km)
Jupiter Diameter: 61.4 inches (5 feet)
* Location: 5.3 mile from Sun (8.5km)
* Moons:
o Io (diameter 1.6 inches, 182 inches [15+ feet] from Jupiter axis)
o Europa (diameter 1.3 inches, 289 inches [24+ feet] from Jupiter axis)
o Ganymede (diameter 2.3 inches, 461 inches [38+ feet] from Jupiter axis)
o Callisto (diameter 2.1 inches, 811 inches [67+ feet] from Jupiter axis)
Saturn Diameter: 51.9 inches
* Location: (9.7 miles from Sun)(15.6 km)
* Inner Ring Diameter 63 inches
* Outer Ring Diameter 117 inches (10 feet)
* Moon Titan (diameter 2.2 inches,526 inches [43+ feet] from Saturn axis)
Uranus Diameter: 22 inches
* Location: 19.5 miles from Sun (31.4km)
Neptune Diameter: 21.3 inches
* Location: 30.6 miles from Sun (49.25km)
Pluto Diameter: 1 inch
Location: 40 miles from Sun 64.4
* Moon Charon (diameter 0.5 inch, 8.5 inches from planet axis)
Our political masters tend to portray the Canadian Armed Forces as only peace keepers but the worst kept secret is our nuclear heritage. We had nuclear tipped Genie, Honest John and BOMARC missiles and from 1961 to 1984 Canadian Pilots based in Germany also practiced for the nuclear strike role with their CF-104 Star Fighter. Known as the 'missile with a man in it' or the 'widow maker' it was very fast -Mach 2.2 - but not very manuverable. 37 Canadian pilots died while practicing low level flying. A friend of mine described how they were briefed on how to use safe corridors to get to the target but the route for the return trip was up to them. Needless to say he figured if he ever had to do it for real, it was going to be a one way fight. He said that there was curtains in the cockpit to block the flash. The starfighter was fast enough to out run the blast but he said once you climbed above tree top level the missiles would probally get you.
I was in the Army in Germany in the 70's and we practiced snowballs or bugging out to get our vehicles as far away from the base as fast as possible before the Russian nukes or chemical strike hit. It is hard to descibe but when you heard those sirens going off at 3 in the morning, you never knew if it was a drill or the real thing. Thank God that no one ever 'pushed the button' for real.
In 2256 the National Hockey League has expanded to 1028 teams. Hamilton is still hopeful to make it in for 2257.
I guess 22 dead is a tragedy and 75 million is just a statistic. Something like 3% of the HIV positive population causes 95% of the new infections. These people should be charged with murder as they knowingly have unprotected sex with multiple partners every night. But then why should they care? They are already living under a death sentence. Why should the drug companies care? They are making Billions selling expensive drug cocktails to prolong the lives of those who care afford it.
Wow 750 infected and 22 dead. How about the millions dead from AIDs? This study says that after 22 years of education 14.7 percent -- one in seven -- of gay and bisexual black men ages 23 to 29 become HIV-positive each year. Since the discovery of AIDS -- first reported in a 1981 government health bulletin as a strange form of pneumonia -- there have been about 750,000 reported cases in America. Nearly 450,000 of those patients have died.
The Washington Post reports that world wide there are now 42 million people living with HIV infection and by 2010 there will be between 50 million and 75 million cases of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in India, China, Ethiopia, Nigeria and Russia alone.
Why was AIDs not decleared a contagious disease back in 1981 and infected people quaratined? Were the rights of a few worth more than the rights of 75 million?
The reason the Iraqi Army has not done so well is simple. They learned all their tactics from the Russians who taught them to retreat, retreat, retreat until the snow comes, then attack.
- In the war of 1812, started by America, Canadians pushed the Americans back...past their 'White House'. Then we burned it...and most of Washington, under the command of William Lyon McKenzie who was insane and hammered all the time. We got bored because they ran away, so we came home and partied...Go figure..
Some of the other things Canadians can be proud of:
- Canada has the largest French population that never surrendered to
Germany.
- We have the largest English population that never ever surrendered or withdrew during any war to anyone, anywhere.
- Our civil war was a bar fight that lasted a little over an hour.
- The only person who was arrested in our civil war was an American mercenary, who slept in and missed the whole thing... but showed up just in time to get caught.
- We knew plaid was cool far before Seattle caught on.
- The Hudsons Bay Company once owned over 10% of the earth's surface and is still around as the world ' s oldest company.
- The average dog sled team can kill and devour a full grown human in under 3 minutes.
- We still know what to do with all the parts of a buffalo.
- We don't marry our kin-folk.
- We invented ski-doos, jet-skis, velcro, zippers, insulin, penicillin, zambonis, the telephone and short wave radios that save countless lives each year.
- We ALL have frozen our tongues to something metal and lived to tell about it.
- - A Canadian invented Superman.
- Smarties
- Crispy Crunch, Coffee Crisp
- The size of our footballs fields and one less down
- Baseball is Canadian
- Lacrosse is Canadian
- Hockey is Canadian
- Basketball is Canadian
- Apple pie is Canadian
- Mr. Dress-up kicks Mr. Rogers ass
- Tim Hortons kicks Dunkin' Donuts ass
. The handles on our beer cases are big enough to fit your hands with mitts on.
Oh yeah... and our elections only take one day.
There is certainly a great deal of untaped potential in the US. Only 4% of landfill sites use their methane to generate electrcity. The U.S. EPA estimates that as many as 500 additional landfills could cost-effectively turn their methane into an energy resource, producing enough electricity to power over 3 million homes across the U.S.
You have to phone in to get a new activation key for each time you install Quicken XG. What is worse is that your license to use online banking or update is only good for 1 year and then you have to pay a fee to renew your subscription. If I had known that I would not have upgraded from Quicken 2002.
Trying to play for a win, Kasparov sacrificed an exchange for two pawns. Unexpectedly Kasparov offered a draw soon after the sacrifice, and the computer team declined! But two moves later a surprise draw was in fact agreed.
As Tartakover would say: It's always better to sacrifice your opponent's men.
Kent Brockman reports on Channel Six.
Kent: We're just about to get our first pictures from inside the
spacecraft with "average-naut" Homer Simpson, and we'd like to
-- aah!
[Camera shows a close-up of an ant floating in front of the
three astronauts]
Kent: Ladies and gentlemen, er, we've just lost the picture, but,
uh, what we've seen speaks for itself. The Corvair spacecraft
has been taken over -- "conquered", if you will -- by a master
race of giant space ants. It's difficult to tell from this
vantage point whether they will consume the captive earth men
or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain, there is no
stopping them; the ants will soon be here.
And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to
remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful
in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar
caves.
Picture of Canadian prototype here.
Sorry link to
Moller skycar is here.
You can see a picture of the Moller skycar here The story says that they are flying off the tether now but for insurance reasons they test over a 6 acre lake. They must be getting close as they are talking about the 'production engines'.
The best part of seeing Nemesis was not the dune buggy chase. If 600 years from now that is the best design they can come up with it is very sad. Why use energy weapons when they always miss? Why jump into the shuttle when they just had to se it down 20 ft closer? I could go on about all the scenes but many did not make sense. I have come to the conclusion that the best thing I seen last night was the previews for Dare Devil, 25th hour and National Security. They look good but then again they always put the good parts in the previews. I guess thats why the previews are the best part.
I liked how he could put himself into a trance and then a little arm would come out his watch to wake him.