"Atlantic Fleet officials acknowledged that the Yorktown last September experienced what they termed "an engineering local area network casualty," but denied that the ship's systems failure lasted as long as DiGiorgio said. The Yorktown was dead in the water for about two hours and 45 minutes, fleet officials said, and did not have to be towed in."
"The Yorktown lost control of its propulsion system because its computers were unable to divide by the number zero, the memo said. The Yorktown's Standard Monitoring Control System administrator entered zero into the data field for the Remote Data Base Manager program. That caused the database to overflow and crash all LAN consoles and miniature remote terminal units, the memo said."
"The Navy reduced the Yorktown crew by 10 percent and saved more than $2.8 million a year using the computers. The ship uses dual 200-MHz Pentium Pros from Intergraph Corp. of Huntsville, Ala. The PCs and server run NT 4.0 over a high-speed, fiber-optic LAN."
"...John Walker-Lindh decided his higher purpose in life was to become the best Muslim he could be. If you read the Time Magazine article about him, he comes off as more a misguided kid with too-liberal parents who refused to take the reigns than anything else. However stupid and wrong-headed he was, his goal was not the destruction of the United States, and he never fired a shot in battle."
Actually John Walker Lindh did fire a shot in battle.
In The Hunt for Bin Laden - Task Force Dagger - by Robin Moore they talk about him.
CIA operatives Mike Spann and Dave Tyson interview JWL at Qala-i-Jangi and are recorded on tape talking to him.
Something goes wrong, Dave leaves Mike behind and runs.
Delta, the Green Beret Boxer element under Lt. Col. Bowers goes in with some 10th Mountain Light Infantry.
When Spann's body is recovered his wounds and questioning of prisoners indicate he was taken alive, tortured, legs broken, shot in either kidney with a handgun and then shot in the back of the neck.
Now back to John Walker.
He was with a cadre of Al-Qadea that refused to surrender. They went into a dungeon and waited out ice-cold water being poured into the dungeon, then waited out diesel being poured in and lit. Then they poured in gasoline and jet fuel. Then they gave up.
When JWL walked to an aid station he was interviewed by a Newsweek reporter and said he was Suleyman al-Faris. He was wearing an old Pakistani Army wool sweater and an olive-drab shirt, standard issue Al Qadea combat clothes. He had gun powder stains across the right side of his face which matched the powder stains seen on those who fire AKs for a living on other Al Qadeas.
In JWL's interviews to Newsweek he plays down his role and what he was doing in Afghanistan. In his interviews with US Soldiers he didn't play down his role. He supported the attack on the USS Cole, he admitted to knowing about the 9-11 attacks were coming as far back as June 2001. He was informed that OBL had sent operatives to the US, he said OBL was his leader and that Americans must die to "cleanse the world of the infidel." He'd been assigned to the Takhar Province but after the Al Qadea forces there were bombed he and his comrades marched a 100 miles to Kunduz. He admitted the Taliban didn't want him since he only spoke Arabic, so he went to Al Qadea. He admitted his goal was to be martyred dying in combat against the Americans.
The Americans got him from the Northern Alliance, the other Al Qadea and non-Afghani Taliban who revolted were executed.
JWL bragged that he'd met OBL. He said OBL "thanked me personally for taking part in the Jihad."
He was a member of Al Qadea who was allowed access to Bin Laden, Al Qadea was known to initiate non-Muslim-born converts by watching them perform acts of violence including murder and torture of prisoners.
JWL admitted he attended the al-Farooq Al Qadea terror training camp west of Kandahar. It is known that he visted the terrorist training camp of Mir-Bach-Kot north of Kabul. He trained others in English and how to deal with western hostages.
Several Al Qadea prisoners have admitted that Walker "the American" helped train sleepers to infiltrate the US by explaining western customs and thinking. Some also accused JWL of hiding grenades on his body used in the uprising. Members of Al Qadea interviewed said JWL interpreted the conversations between Al Qadea and Spann during the uprising. They also say he interpreted Dave and Mike's conversations before the uprising. Interviews and the time-line makes it quite possible that the uprising started as soon as the JWL interview ended in the prison courtyard.
JWL never answered the questions of Mike Spann's sister. Why wouldn't he answer Mike's questions before the uprising and did he know of the hidden weapons and the plan to rise up.
JWL will serve less time than someone caught with three rocks of crack, less than someone with a few ounces of smack and only twice as long as James Traficant will serve for bribery.
600 fighters went into that prison, 600 revolted, 86 survived the Delta operators, the snipers, the JDAMs, the AC-130s, the Northern Alliance and the cold. John Walker Lindh was one of those 86.
France, Germany and the Soviet Union also played nice with Iraq, actually the three of them had closer ties than the US did.
The United States backed Iran through the 1970s, then Saddam took over at about the same time the Iranian Revolution happened so the United States started to back Iraq to keep them from falling to the Iranians. The whole goal of the West and Soviets in the Middle East at this time to keep no one from winning the upper hand.
The vast amounts of Soviet and French equipment being poured into Iraq shifted the balance of power and the Iranians/Americans/Israelis and rouge Saudis cut deals to get new Hawk-I missiles and parts for the Iranian UH-1s and F-4 operating then both the Iranians and Iraqis start attacking tankers.
When the Iraqis gased the Kurds there were two little things going on that limited a Western response to the gassing. The Cold War, Iraq is kind of close geographically to the Soviet Union and I'm sure B-52s and F-15s over Tikrit wouldn't fly in Moscow. And there was the Iran-Iraq war coupled with the fact that the Turks don't like the Kurds and they were an important part of the Southern Front NATO had to the Warsaw Pact. In short in the late 1980s international pressures and the Cold War paradigm kept anyone from acting out.
Now the United States and the West does have some dealings with the Iraqis in dual-use chemicals and technologies, but shit, if you ship someone the instructions on how to make Prussian Blue dye you are giving them the ability to make Zyklon-B poison gas. You sell someone some packing peanuts and gasoline and they can make napalm.
You know that in the 1950s the US and French were shipping nuclear reactors all over along with big tomes of stuff like "Atoms for Peace" is what gave Iraq and Pakistan the seed for thier nuclear programs?
Firstly the US Supreme Court has established that Free Speech doesn't protect speech that advocates violence or doing shit like yelling fire in a movie theatre.
Secondly the US Supreme Court, Federal Courts, State Courts, Federal Appeals Courts have established in cases relating to threating abortion/women's health clinics that you don't have a right to free speech when advocating or alluding to violence.
Now saying the US Government is turning into the Soviet Union or Communist China or Nazi Germany not only shows a serious lack of understanding of those governments and what they did but it's also a slap in the face to the tens of millions who died because of those governments.
From reading the stuff on the Raise the Fist website, I see nothing different with what happened to this guy with what's happened to those sweet folks who post the home addresses of women's clinic staffs and tell if they have gun permits or wear bullet-resistant vests.
"Distribution of information related to explosives is not illegal.. What's illegal is the INTENT part. They have to prove you have intent to use the information to cause further crime of violence.. and how do they prove intent?"
That is no different than this... "A federal appeals court, reversing its own decision, ruled Thursday that anti-abortion rights activists who created Wild West-style posters and a Web site targeting abortion doctors are liable because their works were illegal threats and not free speech."
Patriot Act or not, what he did is in violation of Federal Law because of what the Federal Appeals Courts said.
My IR blaster hooks up to the back of my Replay, and the little IR nodule/lens sticks to the front of my cable box over the IR port.
You tell the Replay/Tivo you are using it, it asks you what kind of cable box you have, then it will tell the cable box to change channels while you are steering the Replay/Tivo around and picking shit to watch and record.
My older ReplayTV has RCA inputs which lets me hook up my digital camera, and it has S-Video inputs that lets me hook up my All-in-Wonder or my camcorder.
Propulsion System - an adaptive propulsion system is provided that performs to best suite the prevailing ejection conditions e.g. pilot boarding mass, ejection speed, aircraft attitude. This comprises the proven Mk16-type, self regulating ejection catapult design, and a new switchable under seat rocket motor that allows one of 4 modes/thrust levels to be selected, under the control of the seat microprocessor sequencer.
In F-22 they use the ACES II.
The seat picks the mode of ejection based on conditions, speed, G, etc. The seat automaticly picts the mode of parachute deployment. In a typical ejection the following happens.
This stuff happens automaticly and more stages can be added for things like firing pyros to destroy black boxes, restraining limbs during the ejection, firing transponders, auto deploying life vests and so forth.
I've had Apple replace HDs and Optical Drives from wear and tear.
I've seen alot of IBM Thinkpad and Apple iBooks and PowerBooks blow sub-systems without moving parts too.
Recently my PowerBook blew it's Firewire port and fried a board for a 2.5" Firewire drive. That requires a motherboard replacement in a PowerBook.
It happened 16 months after I got my PowerBook, so in this case AppleCare saved my ass.
Now when talking about how cheap parts are in relation to buying AppleCare a person has to think about how much thier time is worth.
Say I blow the optical drive in my PowerBook, I can spend the money on AppleCare and get my PB back in 4 days (the time it took to do my motherboard) or I can look around the internet for a replacement Optical Drive, wait for it to show up, grab the Torx and screwdrivers and go to town on my laptop for 2-4 hours and hope I don't fuck up.
I have the use of my PB with reduced functionality for a while, but I'm still shelling the cash for the optical drive and I'm taking my computer's life into my own hands when I start ripping it apart to put in that optical drive.
I'm great with fixing shit, but for my PowerBook, it has AppleCare.
Turbulence in from the wind moving around the buildings would be a problem, that would probably make it as bad of an option as jumping.
Plus a glass desktop cover is going to be heavy and it don't have an airfoil to it so it's going to drop like a piece of glass and get a flutter to it.
"Even if air flow into New York City is relatively steady and the winds predictable, ALOHA's first assumption is not likely to be met within the city itself. Buildings may block and divert the wind. Air flowing past large obstructions such as buildings forms into turbulent eddies, just as eddies form immediately downstream of a boulder or bridge piling in a river. Air flowing across an urban landscape composed of many buildings breaks up into irregular patterns of eddies of various sizes, speeds, and strengths. Winds blowing through city streets can speed up, slow down, and markedly change direction. In fact, wind blowing past an obstruction such as a building sometimes can completely reverse direction. "
"New York City contains many "street canyons" long, straight through streets bordered by tall buildings. A street canyon can funnel the wind at a speed and in a direction different from what a user may have entered into ALOHA. Similarly, it can act to channel a cloud. The cloud, prevented by the walls of buildings from dispersing in the crosswind direction, may travel much farther downwind than ALOHA would predict before diluting below the level of concern."
That link is in relation to computer modeling of NBC weapons release in an urban setting, but it talks about the complexity of winds in a city.
Velocity doesn't make something fly or glide, it's the lift provided from the wing. The basic idea is that a flow over a curved surface has lower pressure than the flow over a flat surface, so you curve the top of a wing and the lower pressure there allows the wing to create lift. The faster the flow is the more lift you get, which is why aircraft need engines to provide foreward movement.
http://www.aa.washington.edu/faculty/eberhardt/l if t.htm
"On the third and last jump in Excelsior III on August 16, 1960, Captain Kittinger jumped from a height of 102,800 feet, almost 20 miles above the earth. With only the small stabilizing chute deployed, Kittinger fell for 4 minutes, 36 seconds. He experienced temperatures as low as minus 94 degrees Fahrenheit and a maximum speed of 714 miles per hour, exceeding the speed of sound. The 28-foot main parachute did not open until Kittinger reached the much thicker atmosphere at 17,500 feet. Kittinger safely landed in the New Mexico desert after a 13 minute 45 second descent. Project Excelsior successfully proved the new parachute system would solve the problem of high altitude escape by crewmen."
The 101st isn't airborne in the parachute sense anymore.
It's the 101st Airborne (Air Assault) which means they fly around in helicopters now.
The 101st at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, provides forcible entry capability through heliborne 'air assault' operations. Capable of inserting a 4,000 soldier combined arms task force, 150-kilometers into enemy terrain in one lift, and possessing 281 helicopters, including three battalions of Apache attack helicopters.
The only parachutes really associated with the 101st would be the Parachute Demonstration Team.
For parachuting in the US military, that's the role of the 82nd Airborne Division and the 173rd Airborne Brigade.
I found this link at the end of the Clinton 2nd Term when there was a push to Parole L.P. A group of retired FBI agents marched in D.C. to let Clinton know that they thought it was a bad idea and I came across that link.
I was applying for a job in Feb of 2001 and in my final interview the Head of the School made a passing reference to what a shame it was that Clinton didn't parole L.P.
I sat foreward in my chair and explained the facts of the shooting to her. Not that L.P. did it, but the facts of the shooting and the state the agent's bodies were in, what with the head shots and all.
My steedfastness on my response really impressed the lady.
Two FBI agents went down to Pine Ridge to arrest someone. The agents end up in a cross-fire between two houses. Two FBI agents end up dead, thier cars were hit 125 times with.223 rounds from an AR. 114.223 shell casings were found, 39 of which matched Peltier's AR-15.
The agents were wounded initially, then executed with point-blank shots fired at thier heads from rifles.
Agent Coler may have fired from his service revolver, but his bullet pouch was still full, one shot from a 12-gauge shotgun and one shot from a.308 rifle. He received an initial wound nearly severing his right arm, a wound to the top of his head, and a second to his jaw, both delivered at contact range with a high-powered rifle.
Agent Williams while calling for help on his radio, may have fired briefly from his service revolver and was wounded initially in his left arm, left side, and foot. A fatal shot fired at contact range went through his right hand and into his face.
Their vehicles received a total of 125 bullet holes, not counting those that either missed or went through the shattered windows and were not recovered.
Well obviously the difference doesn't lie in the Constitutions of the United States and Germany but in the way the courts handle a situation like this.
In the United States a Corporation has the rights of an individual.
Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Under the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution, corporations are treated as individuals; therefore, their taxes should be assessed at a smaller value, the same way it is done for individual property owners.
This case is often cited in other cases because it stands for the principle that the word person in the Fourteenth Amendment applies to corporations as well as natural persons and both are entitled to the equal protection of the laws under the Constitution.
So in the United States the issue wouldn't be about corporations against the people, but about the rights of an individual to copywritten materials.
If you were to read the description of the situation on the/. front page or in the Economic Times you'd see that it's not so much about the People vs. the Corps but about the fact that in Germany you can't carry about a case in the media and expect that it is still constitutional to proceed with the case, as well as the fact that media pressure and threats of court orders don't fly there.
"The Federal Constitutional Court said it stopped the delivery because it could not rule out that the lawsuit, filed by a group of U.S. music publishers in Manhattan, would violate Bertelsmann's constitutional rights in Germany.
"If lawsuits in (foreign) courts are obviously misused to bend a market player to one's will by way of media pressure and the risk of a court order, this could violate the German constitution," the court said in a statement late on Friday."
There were some major cross-platfrom networking issues that you had to upgrade to 10.1 to fix, but otherwise the OS X's have been pretty damned stable on thier own without the need for a paid upgrade.
My mother has been running a 10.1.2 iMac for about two years now and she's never called to whine about it.
The Senate vote is going to be the one that counts.
The House can't overturn a Presidental Veto, the Senate can. However if the President decides to fight this if there strong anti-FCC feelings in the Senate it could get ugly for him.
If the Senate can get 50-60 votes for the bill, the President would be wise to sit on his hands and just let it go, there are bigger fish to fry.
Slashdot Mirror
That was the Yorktown.
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http://www.gcn.com/archives/gcn/1998/july13/cov
"Atlantic Fleet officials acknowledged that the Yorktown last September experienced what they termed "an engineering local area network casualty," but denied that the ship's systems failure lasted as long as DiGiorgio said. The Yorktown was dead in the water for about two hours and 45 minutes, fleet officials said, and did not have to be towed in."
"The Yorktown lost control of its propulsion system because its computers were unable to divide by the number zero, the memo said. The Yorktown's Standard Monitoring Control System administrator entered zero into the data field for the Remote Data Base Manager program. That caused the database to overflow and crash all LAN consoles and miniature remote terminal units, the memo said."
"The Navy reduced the Yorktown crew by 10 percent and saved more than $2.8 million a year using the computers. The ship uses dual 200-MHz Pentium Pros from Intergraph Corp. of Huntsville, Ala. The PCs and server run NT 4.0 over a high-speed, fiber-optic LAN."
That was 1997-98
"...John Walker-Lindh decided his higher purpose in life was to become the best Muslim he could be. If you read the Time Magazine article about him, he comes off as more a misguided kid with too-liberal parents who refused to take the reigns than anything else. However stupid and wrong-headed he was, his goal was not the destruction of the United States, and he never fired a shot in battle."
Actually John Walker Lindh did fire a shot in battle.
In The Hunt for Bin Laden - Task Force Dagger - by Robin Moore they talk about him.
CIA operatives Mike Spann and Dave Tyson interview JWL at Qala-i-Jangi and are recorded on tape talking to him.
Something goes wrong, Dave leaves Mike behind and runs.
Delta, the Green Beret Boxer element under Lt. Col. Bowers goes in with some 10th Mountain Light Infantry.
When Spann's body is recovered his wounds and questioning of prisoners indicate he was taken alive, tortured, legs broken, shot in either kidney with a handgun and then shot in the back of the neck.
Now back to John Walker.
He was with a cadre of Al-Qadea that refused to surrender. They went into a dungeon and waited out ice-cold water being poured into the dungeon, then waited out diesel being poured in and lit. Then they poured in gasoline and jet fuel. Then they gave up.
When JWL walked to an aid station he was interviewed by a Newsweek reporter and said he was Suleyman al-Faris. He was wearing an old Pakistani Army wool sweater and an olive-drab shirt, standard issue Al Qadea combat clothes. He had gun powder stains across the right side of his face which matched the powder stains seen on those who fire AKs for a living on other Al Qadeas.
In JWL's interviews to Newsweek he plays down his role and what he was doing in Afghanistan. In his interviews with US Soldiers he didn't play down his role. He supported the attack on the USS Cole, he admitted to knowing about the 9-11 attacks were coming as far back as June 2001. He was informed that OBL had sent operatives to the US, he said OBL was his leader and that Americans must die to "cleanse the world of the infidel." He'd been assigned to the Takhar Province but after the Al Qadea forces there were bombed he and his comrades marched a 100 miles to Kunduz. He admitted the Taliban didn't want him since he only spoke Arabic, so he went to Al Qadea. He admitted his goal was to be martyred dying in combat against the Americans.
The Americans got him from the Northern Alliance, the other Al Qadea and non-Afghani Taliban who revolted were executed.
JWL bragged that he'd met OBL. He said OBL "thanked me personally for taking part in the Jihad."
He was a member of Al Qadea who was allowed access to Bin Laden, Al Qadea was known to initiate non-Muslim-born converts by watching them perform acts of violence including murder and torture of prisoners.
JWL admitted he attended the al-Farooq Al Qadea terror training camp west of Kandahar. It is known that he visted the terrorist training camp of Mir-Bach-Kot north of Kabul. He trained others in English and how to deal with western hostages.
Several Al Qadea prisoners have admitted that Walker "the American" helped train sleepers to infiltrate the US by explaining western customs and thinking. Some also accused JWL of hiding grenades on his body used in the uprising. Members of Al Qadea interviewed said JWL interpreted the conversations between Al Qadea and Spann during the uprising. They also say he interpreted Dave and Mike's conversations before the uprising. Interviews and the time-line makes it quite possible that the uprising started as soon as the JWL interview ended in the prison courtyard.
JWL never answered the questions of Mike Spann's sister. Why wouldn't he answer Mike's questions before the uprising and did he know of the hidden weapons and the plan to rise up.
JWL will serve less time than someone caught with three rocks of crack, less than someone with a few ounces of smack and only twice as long as James Traficant will serve for bribery.
600 fighters went into that prison, 600 revolted, 86 survived the Delta operators, the snipers, the JDAMs, the AC-130s, the Northern Alliance and the cold. John Walker Lindh was one of those 86.
There's a Mad Catz extension cord for 7 bucks and I got a couple Nintendo extension cords for like 6-8 bucks and I have like 10-12 feet of cord now.
http://www.ebgames.com/ebx/product/213663.asp
I prefer the GC's controller so I buy most of my titles for it if they are out for both platforms.
In fact the only games I still fire up the PS2 for are Winning Eleven Six, SOCOM and GTA VC.
I'm sorry that GC sales are flat, but I feel it's superior to the PS/2 so I'll keep buying the games.
France, Germany and the Soviet Union also played nice with Iraq, actually the three of them had closer ties than the US did.
The United States backed Iran through the 1970s, then Saddam took over at about the same time the Iranian Revolution happened so the United States started to back Iraq to keep them from falling to the Iranians. The whole goal of the West and Soviets in the Middle East at this time to keep no one from winning the upper hand.
The vast amounts of Soviet and French equipment being poured into Iraq shifted the balance of power and the Iranians/Americans/Israelis and rouge Saudis cut deals to get new Hawk-I missiles and parts for the Iranian UH-1s and F-4 operating then both the Iranians and Iraqis start attacking tankers.
When the Iraqis gased the Kurds there were two little things going on that limited a Western response to the gassing. The Cold War, Iraq is kind of close geographically to the Soviet Union and I'm sure B-52s and F-15s over Tikrit wouldn't fly in Moscow. And there was the Iran-Iraq war coupled with the fact that the Turks don't like the Kurds and they were an important part of the Southern Front NATO had to the Warsaw Pact. In short in the late 1980s international pressures and the Cold War paradigm kept anyone from acting out.
Now the United States and the West does have some dealings with the Iraqis in dual-use chemicals and technologies, but shit, if you ship someone the instructions on how to make Prussian Blue dye you are giving them the ability to make Zyklon-B poison gas. You sell someone some packing peanuts and gasoline and they can make napalm.
You know that in the 1950s the US and French were shipping nuclear reactors all over along with big tomes of stuff like "Atoms for Peace" is what gave Iraq and Pakistan the seed for thier nuclear programs?
Firstly the US Supreme Court has established that Free Speech doesn't protect speech that advocates violence or doing shit like yelling fire in a movie theatre.
.. and how do they prove intent?"
Secondly the US Supreme Court, Federal Courts, State Courts, Federal Appeals Courts have established in cases relating to threating abortion/women's health clinics that you don't have a right to free speech when advocating or alluding to violence.
Now saying the US Government is turning into the Soviet Union or Communist China or Nazi Germany not only shows a serious lack of understanding of those governments and what they did but it's also a slap in the face to the tens of millions who died because of those governments.
From reading the stuff on the Raise the Fist website, I see nothing different with what happened to this guy with what's happened to those sweet folks who post the home addresses of women's clinic staffs and tell if they have gun permits or wear bullet-resistant vests.
"Distribution of information related to explosives is not illegal.. What's illegal is the INTENT part. They have to prove you have intent to use the information to cause further crime of violence
That is no different than this...
"A federal appeals court, reversing its own decision, ruled Thursday that anti-abortion rights activists who created Wild West-style posters and a Web site targeting abortion doctors are liable because their works were illegal threats and not free speech."
Patriot Act or not, what he did is in violation of Federal Law because of what the Federal Appeals Courts said.
Mine came with one.
My IR blaster hooks up to the back of my Replay, and the little IR nodule/lens sticks to the front of my cable box over the IR port.
You tell the Replay/Tivo you are using it, it asks you what kind of cable box you have, then it will tell the cable box to change channels while you are steering the Replay/Tivo around and picking shit to watch and record.
My older ReplayTV has RCA inputs which lets me hook up my digital camera, and it has S-Video inputs that lets me hook up my All-in-Wonder or my camcorder.
A modern ejection seat does alot of stuff.
http://www.martin-baker.co.uk/
Propulsion System - an adaptive propulsion system is provided that performs to best suite the prevailing ejection conditions e.g. pilot boarding mass, ejection speed, aircraft attitude. This comprises the proven Mk16-type, self regulating ejection catapult design, and a new switchable under seat rocket motor that allows one of 4 modes/thrust levels to be selected, under the control of the seat microprocessor sequencer.
In F-22 they use the ACES II.
The seat picks the mode of ejection based on conditions, speed, G, etc. The seat automaticly picts the mode of parachute deployment. In a typical ejection the following happens.
Rocket-Catapult Fires
Drogue Deploys
STAPAC Ignites
Parachute Deploys
Drogue Releases from seat
Seat Releases from Crewman
Parachute Inflates
Survival Kit Deploys
This stuff happens automaticly and more stages can be added for things like firing pyros to destroy black boxes, restraining limbs during the ejection, firing transponders, auto deploying life vests and so forth.
AppleCare is worth it.
I've had Apple replace HDs and Optical Drives from wear and tear.
I've seen alot of IBM Thinkpad and Apple iBooks and PowerBooks blow sub-systems without moving parts too.
Recently my PowerBook blew it's Firewire port and fried a board for a 2.5" Firewire drive. That requires a motherboard replacement in a PowerBook.
It happened 16 months after I got my PowerBook, so in this case AppleCare saved my ass.
Now when talking about how cheap parts are in relation to buying AppleCare a person has to think about how much thier time is worth.
Say I blow the optical drive in my PowerBook, I can spend the money on AppleCare and get my PB back in 4 days (the time it took to do my motherboard) or I can look around the internet for a replacement Optical Drive, wait for it to show up, grab the Torx and screwdrivers and go to town on my laptop for 2-4 hours and hope I don't fuck up.
I have the use of my PB with reduced functionality for a while, but I'm still shelling the cash for the optical drive and I'm taking my computer's life into my own hands when I start ripping it apart to put in that optical drive.
I'm great with fixing shit, but for my PowerBook, it has AppleCare.
Turbulence in from the wind moving around the buildings would be a problem, that would probably make it as bad of an option as jumping.
l oh a/terrain/terrain.html
l if t.htm
Plus a glass desktop cover is going to be heavy and it don't have an airfoil to it so it's going to drop like a piece of glass and get a flutter to it.
http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/cameo/dr_a
"Even if air flow into New York City is relatively steady and the winds predictable, ALOHA's first assumption is not likely to be met within the city itself. Buildings may block and divert the wind. Air flowing past large obstructions such as buildings forms into turbulent eddies, just as eddies form immediately downstream of a boulder or bridge piling in a river. Air flowing across an urban landscape composed of many buildings breaks up into irregular patterns of eddies of various sizes, speeds, and strengths. Winds blowing through city streets can speed up, slow down, and markedly change direction. In fact, wind blowing past an obstruction such as a building sometimes can completely reverse direction. "
"New York City contains many "street canyons" long, straight through streets bordered by tall buildings. A street canyon can funnel the wind at a speed and in a direction different from what a user may have entered into ALOHA. Similarly, it can act to channel a cloud. The cloud, prevented by the walls of buildings from dispersing in the crosswind direction, may travel much farther downwind than ALOHA would predict before diluting below the level of concern."
That link is in relation to computer modeling of NBC weapons release in an urban setting, but it talks about the complexity of winds in a city.
Velocity doesn't make something fly or glide, it's the lift provided from the wing. The basic idea is that a flow over a curved surface has lower pressure than the flow over a flat surface, so you curve the top of a wing and the lower pressure there allows the wing to create lift. The faster the flow is the more lift you get, which is why aircraft need engines to provide foreward movement.
http://www.aa.washington.edu/faculty/eberhardt/
I'm sure those M-163 and 167s on the Israeli side of the borders will make short work of a gliding tango.
g ro und/m163.htm
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/
People wouldn't starve if there was a viable infrastructure for the transport of food.
/. than the rate of deaths from testicular cancer are on the decline.
But that doesn't exsist so there is overpopulation coupled with a lack of advanced farming techniques and so people die.
It's a shame but it happens, however it's no more newsworthy for
http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/history/coldwar/pe. htm
g
"On the third and last jump in Excelsior III on August 16, 1960, Captain Kittinger jumped from a height of 102,800 feet, almost 20 miles above the earth. With only the small stabilizing chute deployed, Kittinger fell for 4 minutes, 36 seconds. He experienced temperatures as low as minus 94 degrees Fahrenheit and a maximum speed of 714 miles per hour, exceeding the speed of sound. The 28-foot main parachute did not open until Kittinger reached the much thicker atmosphere at 17,500 feet. Kittinger safely landed in the New Mexico desert after a 13 minute 45 second descent. Project Excelsior successfully proved the new parachute system would solve the problem of high altitude escape by crewmen."
http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/eagles/kitt-3.jp
101st-airborne-becoming-jealous
The 101st isn't airborne in the parachute sense anymore.
It's the 101st Airborne (Air Assault) which means they fly around in helicopters now.
The 101st at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, provides forcible entry capability through heliborne 'air assault' operations. Capable of inserting a 4,000 soldier combined arms task force, 150-kilometers into enemy terrain in one lift, and possessing 281 helicopters, including three battalions of Apache attack helicopters.
The only parachutes really associated with the 101st would be the Parachute Demonstration Team.
For parachuting in the US military, that's the role of the 82nd Airborne Division and the 173rd Airborne Brigade.
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I found this link at the end of the Clinton 2nd Term when there was a push to Parole L.P. A group of retired FBI agents marched in D.C. to let Clinton know that they thought it was a bad idea and I came across that link.
I was applying for a job in Feb of 2001 and in my final interview the Head of the School made a passing reference to what a shame it was that Clinton didn't parole L.P.
I sat foreward in my chair and explained the facts of the shooting to her. Not that L.P. did it, but the facts of the shooting and the state the agent's bodies were in, what with the head shots and all.
My steedfastness on my response really impressed the lady.
Since we have a link to Free Peltier, here is a link to the No Parole Peltier Association.
a rolepeltier.com/shootout.html
.223 rounds from an AR. 114 .223 shell casings were found, 39 of which matched Peltier's AR-15.
.308 rifle. He received an initial wound nearly severing his right arm, a wound to the top of his head, and a second to his jaw, both delivered at contact range with a high-powered rifle.
http://www.noparolepeltier.com/
http://www.nop
Two FBI agents went down to Pine Ridge to arrest someone. The agents end up in a cross-fire between two houses. Two FBI agents end up dead, thier cars were hit 125 times with
The agents were wounded initially, then executed with point-blank shots fired at thier heads from rifles.
Agent Coler may have fired from his service revolver, but his bullet pouch was still full, one shot from a 12-gauge shotgun and one shot from a
Agent Williams while calling for help on his radio, may have fired briefly from his service revolver and was wounded initially in his left arm, left side, and foot. A fatal shot fired at contact range went through his right hand and into his face.
Their vehicles received a total of 125 bullet holes, not counting those that either missed or went through the shattered windows and were not recovered.
The thing that pisses me off is the fact that the TMs will spoof your caller ID.
I'll see State of Oregon on my caller ID with a 503 or 541 prefix, pick up and it'll be a fucking tellemarketer.
I have the opt in if you are a sollicitor don't call here message on my phone and they still spoof me.
I don't give a damn if people will be out of a job because of the list.
Well obviously the difference doesn't lie in the Constitutions of the United States and Germany but in the way the courts handle a situation like this.
/. front page or in the Economic Times you'd see that it's not so much about the People vs. the Corps but about the fact that in Germany you can't carry about a case in the media and expect that it is still constitutional to proceed with the case, as well as the fact that media pressure and threats of court orders don't fly there.
In the United States a Corporation has the rights of an individual.
Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad
Under the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution, corporations are treated as individuals; therefore, their taxes should be assessed at a smaller value, the same way it is done for individual property owners.
This case is often cited in other cases because it stands for the principle that the word person in the Fourteenth Amendment applies to corporations as well as natural persons and both are entitled to the equal protection of the laws under the Constitution.
So in the United States the issue wouldn't be about corporations against the people, but about the rights of an individual to copywritten materials.
If you were to read the description of the situation on the
"The Federal Constitutional Court said it stopped the delivery because it could not rule out that the lawsuit, filed by a group of U.S. music publishers in Manhattan, would violate Bertelsmann's constitutional rights in Germany.
"If lawsuits in (foreign) courts are obviously misused to bend a market player to one's will by way of media pressure and the risk of a court order, this could violate the German constitution," the court said in a statement late on Friday."
Steve Jobs is the Chairman of the company he co-founded which just entered an alliance with IBM for microprocessors.
Steve Jobs is the Chairman of the company he bought from ILM which just entered a battle with IBM for computer procduced films.
Reality is stranger than fiction.
There were some major cross-platfrom networking issues that you had to upgrade to 10.1 to fix, but otherwise the OS X's have been pretty damned stable on thier own without the need for a paid upgrade.
My mother has been running a 10.1.2 iMac for about two years now and she's never called to whine about it.
They know where they were when they left harbor. They have advanced inertial navigation systems and they have guys with maps and grease pens.
s ub /navigation/index.html
http://www.raytheonmarine.de/highseas/products/
When they stream a radio antenna to get messages from command, they have a gps antenna on that as well.
"Give me a stopwatch and a map, and I'll fly the Alps in a plane with no windows."
Communism forced Communists to kill millions of people in China and Russia.
Communist farming "reforms" and "leaps" lead to the deaths of tens of millions.
Actually, X-Plane can be used for FAA airline transport certification.
g htmotion.com/docs/faa_approval.htm
http://www.x-plane.com/FTD.html
http://www.fli
The Senate vote is going to be the one that counts.
The House can't overturn a Presidental Veto, the Senate can. However if the President decides to fight this if there strong anti-FCC feelings in the Senate it could get ugly for him.
If the Senate can get 50-60 votes for the bill, the President would be wise to sit on his hands and just let it go, there are bigger fish to fry.