1 G3 466 (Beige) Tower - Quieter than a comperable PC 1 G3 233 AIO - Loudish powersupply fan, quieter than a PC 1 iMac 333 Lime - That iMac fan sound, not too loud 1 iMac 400 DV - Quiet 1 G3 400 Powerbook - Quiet and hot 1 G4 550 Powerbook - Quiet 1 Athlon 1600 MHz in a Lian Li case - Louder 1 Twin 433 Celeron in a Antec case with extra case fans - Loud 1 G3 300 Tower Server with 2 80GB IDE and 2 8 GB Ultra SCSI drives - about as loud as a comperable PC case 2 867 G5 Quicksilvers - and I say they are quiet 3 New Compaqs with Zeons - Louder than hell.
All these are in different places I work each and everyday.
Of the 80 million mines, I'll guestimate that the US placed em in...
Korea (Still in use on the DMZ) Vietnam (Many of the "mines" are prbly unexploded munitions) Honduras
At the most, 2-4 million
http://www.state.gov/www/global/arms/rpt_9809_de mi ne_toc.html
Angola - That'd be South Africa and Cuba along with Rebels Eritrea - Somalia Mozambique - Rebels and the government Namibia - South Africa and Marxist rebels Somalia - Somalia during the civil war with Eritrea Sudan - Civil War, border with Egypt Afghanistan - Soviets Cambodia - US, Vietnam, China, Cambodia, rebels Bosnia - Serbia and the Civil War Croatia - Serbia, Yugoslavia, Croatia Nicaragua - The US and the local government Iraq - Iraq, the Kurds, Iran.
So out of the 53 million estimated, the US might be responsable for a piece of the Cambodia and Afghan problem. The US wasn't big into dumb mines other than Claymore after the Korean War ended, except in Korea due to the problems with fratricide and killing civillians.
I wouldn't know about city schools because I'm from the Rez.
On the Rez, the schools are the beta sites for what Federal Education will be like.
I didn't say to "nuke" anything. The point I was trying to make as I mashed my words here at work was...
If the city of Las Vegas expands close enough to the Nuke Storage Facility that it causes a problem. Then it's the fault of the City of Las Vegas for expanding onto Federal Land, not a military base, and for expanding that far.
You see, with proper city planning and urban growth like in Portland OR, Las Vegas or Denver or Atlanta wouldn't have the growth problems they are having.
I'm sorry about the "comma splice", but from 1980 to 1994 I had cancer and chemo and missed alot of school and havn't gotten up to speed on proper grammer or spelling because I was staying alive.
Yes, but the storage barrels can take a TOW anti-tank missile and only get a very minor leak.
So all the mid-sized van strikes I douby will do much.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Art ic les/000/000/001/438jlpwd.asp
"To wit: an eighteen-wheeler carrying a transport cask smashes into a 700-ton brick wall at a speed of 81 mph; testers drop a cask from 2,000 feet onto hard ground; and, a 120-ton locomotive train traveling at 80 mph rams a cask. In each of those cases, the scientists at Sandia determined that the casks would not have leaked any radioactive material.
In one case, however, a powerful explosive placed directly atop the cask managed to blow a small hole (less than an inch in diameter) in its exterior. Scientists estimated that about 0.03 percent of the radioactive substance might have leaked, resulting in an exposure level to those in the immediate vicinity just over what you get from several trips on an airplane.
Technological advances in the twenty years since those tests have made the transport casks virtually indestructible. The storage casks, by contrast, failed a test conducted in 1998 at Aberdeen Proving Ground, in which a TOW missile penetrated a cask. The obvious solution--store all waste in the tougher, transport casks--would be expensive but doable."
I know people think this waste will be housed in cardboard boxes, but that's not whats happening here
Nebraska, the Dakotas, Texas all have one big problem that you aren't thinking about.
Aquifers.
http://www.npwd.org/Ogallala.htm
"The Ogallala Formation unconformably overlies Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous strata and consists primarily of heterogeneous sequences of coarse-grained sand and gravel in the lower part grading upward into fine clay, silt, and sand. Gravel commonly occurs in layers in the basal section and ranges in size from boulders to pea size. In places, the Ogallala Formation contains some quartz gravel and caliche with pebbles and cobbles of quartz, quartzite, and chert being common. In the Northern High Plains the formation has been divided into three subdivisions: the Valentine, Ash Hollow, and Kimball, based on fossil vertebrates and flora. The subdivisions, often referred to as floral zones, are less distinguishable in the Southern High Plains."
The large "flat" states are way worse locations because they are gravely. Now recall that this is all seabed from the recent shallow sea that covered the middle of North America.
Some of the old inhabitants of the Dakotas and Kansas. http://www.oceansofkansas.com/varner.html
A safer location might have been somewhere like the Black Hills of South Dakota, up by Lead/Deadwood. Or Colorado in the Rockies.
Actually, NASA and the European space efforts in the 1960s were cut because of money going into Welfare.
The Great Society in the 1960s cost gobs.
SDI, Defense and Space are interlinked, but it was the Welfare spending that cut short Apollo, ended the trips to Skylab, pushed NASA into the current Shuttle, killed Mars, etc. Nixon did alot of the axein' because the Democratic Senate and House was threating him with filabuster.
All the cool European small shuttle plans, a Saturn class rocket, were all killed in various parliments so the money could go into Social programs.
A bushel of apples shall weigh forty-eight pounds (48 lbs.). A bushel of apples, dried, shall weigh twenty-five pounds (25 lbs.). A bushel of apple seed shall weigh forty pounds (40 lbs.). A bushel of barley shall weigh forty-eight pounds (48 lbs.). A bushel of beans shall weigh sixty pounds (60 lbs.). A bushel of beans, castor, shall weigh forty-six pounds (46 lbs.). A bushel of beets shall weigh fifty pounds (50 lbs.). A bushel of bran shall weigh twenty pounds (20 lbs.). A bushel of buckwheat shall weigh forty-eight pounds (48 lbs.). A bushel of carrots shall weigh fifty pounds (50 lbs.). A bushel of charcoal shall weigh twenty pounds (20 lbs.). A bushel of clover seed shall weigh sixty pounds (60 lbs.). A bushel of coal shall weigh eighty pounds (80 lbs.). A bushel of coke shall weigh forty pounds (40 lbs.). A bushel of corn, shelled, shall weigh fifty-six pounds (56 lbs.). A bushel of corn, in the ear, shall weigh seventy pounds (70 lbs.). A bushel of corn meal shall weigh fifty pounds (50 lbs.). A bushel of cotton seed, upland, shall weigh thirty pounds (30 lbs.). A bushel of cotton seed, Sea Island, shall weigh forty-four pounds (44 lbs.). A bushel of flax seed shall weigh fifty-six pounds (56 lbs.). A bushel of hemp shall weigh forty-four pounds (44 lbs.). A bushel of Hungarian seed shall weigh fifty pounds (50 lbs.). A bushel of lime shall weigh seventy pounds (70 lbs.). A bushel of malt shall weigh thirty-eight pounds (38 lbs.). A bushel of millet seed shall weigh fifty pounds (50 lbs.). A bushel of oats shall weigh thirty-two pounds (32 lbs.). A bushel of onions shall weigh fifty pounds (50 lbs.). A bushel of parsnips shall weigh fifty pounds (50 lbs.). A bushel of peaches shall weigh forty-eight pounds (48 lbs.). A bushel of peaches, dried, shall weigh thirty-three pounds (33 lbs.). A bushel of peas shall weigh sixty pounds (60 lbs.). A bushel of peas, split, shall weigh sixty pounds (60 lbs.). A bushel of potatoes shall weigh sixty pounds (60 lbs.). A bushel of potatoes, sweet, shall weigh fifty-four pounds (54 lbs.). A bushel of rye shall weigh fifty-six pounds (56 lbs.). A bushel of rye meal shall weigh fifty pounds (50 lbs.). A bushel of salt, fine, shall weigh fifty pounds (50 lbs.). A bushel of salt, coarse, shall weigh seventy pounds (70 lbs.). A bushel of timothy seed shall weigh forty-five pounds (45 lbs.). A bushel of shorts shall weigh twenty pounds (20 lbs.). A bushel of tomatoes shall weigh fifty-six pounds (56 lbs.). A bushel of turnips shall weigh fifty pounds (50 lbs.). A bushel of wheat shall weigh sixty pounds (60 lbs.)
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US Fleet boats also sometimes had ice cream makers.
:)
And all of them had something the German U-Boats didn't have...showers.
US subs in WW2 were in someways far more advanced that German or Japanese boats, and in other ways way more primative, and US torps were horrible.
Richard H. O'Kane's book about being a submarine captian in the Pacific is very interesting, it even covers air conditioning some
South Dakota license for 6 years, Oregon for 9 years.
No thumbprint, no DNA. SSN is now on the SD licence, not on the Oregon.
I didn't HAVE to have a license to drive cross statelines, and twice I drove it, I'd left my license behind my accident.
No one HAS to have a license to drive across the United States, but it sure helps if you are stopped for speeding or a traffic violation.
Bicycles can be licenced and limited in the same way that cars are.
I've driven from Oregon to Florida and from Oregon to South Dakota and back many times without showing an ID once.
So how can you say it's similar to flying on an airline?
OS 10.1 was a heck of alot more than a SP.
Besides, usually MS charges for updates as big as 10.1 was.
It was like the jump from WinNT 4 to Win2000
Apple is banking on the Drones who are stuck with NT4 at work, and there are tons of them, with the Blue Screen comments in the Switch commercials.
As a desktop/network support guy, I think the term knowledgable user is an oxymoron.
That's what people like Ross Perot think.
And it's wrong.
As a economic system evolves, older ways of work fade away and go out of the mainstream workplace.
All the jobs didn't go to Mexico, the US economy simply moved past industrial assembly and metal manufacturing.
Had all the jobs moved to Mexico or China, then there would have been a high unemployment rate.
Qwest and Aracnet.
I have a corporate DSL.
Cheaper than local Cable Modem basic service.
I get 5 static IPs from my DSL provider in Portland OR.
When the cable companies allow me that flexablitiy, I'll think about a switch.
Crap.
Talk about a slip.
G4 QS.
Sorry, it was hot and I was tired.
Lets see what I have.
1 G3 466 (Beige) Tower - Quieter than a comperable PC
1 G3 233 AIO - Loudish powersupply fan, quieter than a PC
1 iMac 333 Lime - That iMac fan sound, not too loud
1 iMac 400 DV - Quiet
1 G3 400 Powerbook - Quiet and hot
1 G4 550 Powerbook - Quiet
1 Athlon 1600 MHz in a Lian Li case - Louder
1 Twin 433 Celeron in a Antec case with extra case fans - Loud
1 G3 300 Tower Server with 2 80GB IDE and 2 8 GB Ultra SCSI drives - about as loud as a comperable PC case
2 867 G5 Quicksilvers - and I say they are quiet
3 New Compaqs with Zeons - Louder than hell.
All these are in different places I work each and everyday.
Maybe your "Quickhoover" has out of balance fans.
I would say much quieter.
I have 2 867 single CPU machines under my desk at work and you can't hear them run.
I run 512 MB RAM on my TiBook and G3 desktop and thats a nice stable amount of RAM for OS X and OS 9 (or X and Classic).
The main reason the US didn't sign the ban was because they were not given an exemption for the Korean DMZ.
Oh and Nicaragua, but its a minor local compared to places like Afghanistan or Angola.
The high estimate for Nicaragua is 108,000.
Without looking on the internet...
e mi ne_toc.html
Of the 80 million mines, I'll guestimate that the US placed em in...
Korea (Still in use on the DMZ)
Vietnam (Many of the "mines" are prbly unexploded munitions)
Honduras
At the most, 2-4 million
http://www.state.gov/www/global/arms/rpt_9809_d
Angola - That'd be South Africa and Cuba along with Rebels
Eritrea - Somalia
Mozambique - Rebels and the government
Namibia - South Africa and Marxist rebels
Somalia - Somalia during the civil war with Eritrea
Sudan - Civil War, border with Egypt
Afghanistan - Soviets
Cambodia - US, Vietnam, China, Cambodia, rebels
Bosnia - Serbia and the Civil War
Croatia - Serbia, Yugoslavia, Croatia
Nicaragua - The US and the local government
Iraq - Iraq, the Kurds, Iran.
So out of the 53 million estimated, the US might be responsable for a piece of the Cambodia and Afghan problem. The US wasn't big into dumb mines other than Claymore after the Korean War ended, except in Korea due to the problems with fratricide and killing civillians.
I wouldn't know about city schools because I'm from the Rez.
On the Rez, the schools are the beta sites for what Federal Education will be like.
I didn't say to "nuke" anything. The point I was trying to make as I mashed my words here at work was...
If the city of Las Vegas expands close enough to the Nuke Storage Facility that it causes a problem. Then it's the fault of the City of Las Vegas for expanding onto Federal Land, not a military base, and for expanding that far.
You see, with proper city planning and urban growth like in Portland OR, Las Vegas or Denver or Atlanta wouldn't have the growth problems they are having.
I'm sorry about the "comma splice", but from 1980 to 1994 I had cancer and chemo and missed alot of school and havn't gotten up to speed on proper grammer or spelling because I was staying alive.
If Vegas creeps that far, into Federal land, then it's thier own damn fault for being there.
Yes, but the storage barrels can take a TOW anti-tank missile and only get a very minor leak.
t ic les/000/000/001/438jlpwd.asp
So all the mid-sized van strikes I douby will do much.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Ar
"To wit: an eighteen-wheeler carrying a transport cask smashes into a 700-ton brick wall at a speed of 81 mph; testers drop a cask from 2,000 feet onto hard ground; and, a 120-ton locomotive train traveling at 80 mph rams a cask. In each of those cases, the scientists at Sandia determined that the casks would not have leaked any radioactive material.
In one case, however, a powerful explosive placed directly atop the cask managed to blow a small hole (less than an inch in diameter) in its exterior. Scientists estimated that about 0.03 percent of the radioactive substance might have leaked, resulting in an exposure level to those in the immediate vicinity just over what you get from several trips on an airplane.
Technological advances in the twenty years since those tests have made the transport casks virtually indestructible. The storage casks, by contrast, failed a test conducted in 1998 at Aberdeen Proving Ground, in which a TOW missile penetrated a cask. The obvious solution--store all waste in the tougher, transport casks--would be expensive but doable."
I know people think this waste will be housed in cardboard boxes, but that's not whats happening here
Nebraska, the Dakotas, Texas all have one big problem that you aren't thinking about.
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Aquifers.
http://www.npwd.org/Ogallala.htm
"The Ogallala Formation unconformably overlies Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous strata and consists primarily of heterogeneous sequences of coarse-grained sand and gravel in the lower part grading upward into fine clay, silt, and sand. Gravel commonly occurs in layers in the basal section and ranges in size from boulders to pea size. In places, the Ogallala Formation contains some quartz gravel and caliche with pebbles and cobbles of quartz, quartzite, and chert being common. In the Northern High Plains the formation has been divided into three subdivisions: the Valentine, Ash Hollow, and Kimball, based on fossil vertebrates and flora. The subdivisions, often referred to as floral zones, are less distinguishable in the Southern High Plains."
The large "flat" states are way worse locations because they are gravely. Now recall that this is all seabed from the recent shallow sea that covered the middle of North America.
Some of the old inhabitants of the Dakotas and Kansas.
http://www.oceansofkansas.com/varner.htm
A safer location might have been somewhere like the Black Hills of South Dakota, up by Lead/Deadwood. Or Colorado in the Rockies.
The "community" can write whatever they want.
Thier standing hasn't been hurt.
All that's happened is Apple and IDG decided that some people don't get "press" passes.
I don't see the big deal.
I read a rant last night on macosrumors and I must say, the more bitching I hear about it, the less I feel they've been "wronged".
What does a press pass get one at MacWorld that a QT Stream doesn't?
Nothing according to some, so why are people complaining? Because they are acting like children.
Find me a starving American that's starving because the Government isn't providing food.
I don't think it exists.
The Space Program should be the top technology program the US Federal Government funds.
Heres my idea. Take the Budget of the BIA and the DEA and throw it all at NASA and the NSF.
Actually, NASA and the European space efforts in the 1960s were cut because of money going into Welfare.
The Great Society in the 1960s cost gobs.
SDI, Defense and Space are interlinked, but it was the Welfare spending that cut short Apollo, ended the trips to Skylab, pushed NASA into the current Shuttle, killed Mars, etc. Nixon did alot of the axein' because the Democratic Senate and House was threating him with filabuster.
All the cool European small shuttle plans, a Saturn class rocket, were all killed in various parliments so the money could go into Social programs.
A bushel is a measurement of crop weight.
7 -4 /S00002.HTM
The fun thing about it is, some bushels are more or less pounds than another one.
http://www.cyberspaceag.com/bushel.html
Corn 1 Bushel = 56 Pounds
Sorghum (Milo)1 Bushel = 56 Pounds
Soybeans1 Bushel = 60 Pounds
Sunflowers1 Bushel = 28 Pounds
Wheat 1 Bushel = 60 Pounds
http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/Statutes/TITLE47/4
A bushel of apples shall weigh forty-eight pounds (48 lbs.).
A bushel of apples, dried, shall weigh twenty-five pounds (25 lbs.).
A bushel of apple seed shall weigh forty pounds (40 lbs.).
A bushel of barley shall weigh forty-eight pounds (48 lbs.).
A bushel of beans shall weigh sixty pounds (60 lbs.).
A bushel of beans, castor, shall weigh forty-six pounds (46 lbs.).
A bushel of beets shall weigh fifty pounds (50 lbs.).
A bushel of bran shall weigh twenty pounds (20 lbs.).
A bushel of buckwheat shall weigh forty-eight pounds (48 lbs.).
A bushel of carrots shall weigh fifty pounds (50 lbs.).
A bushel of charcoal shall weigh twenty pounds (20 lbs.).
A bushel of clover seed shall weigh sixty pounds (60 lbs.).
A bushel of coal shall weigh eighty pounds (80 lbs.).
A bushel of coke shall weigh forty pounds (40 lbs.).
A bushel of corn, shelled, shall weigh fifty-six pounds (56 lbs.).
A bushel of corn, in the ear, shall weigh seventy pounds (70 lbs.).
A bushel of corn meal shall weigh fifty pounds (50 lbs.).
A bushel of cotton seed, upland, shall weigh thirty pounds (30 lbs.).
A bushel of cotton seed, Sea Island, shall weigh forty-four pounds (44 lbs.).
A bushel of flax seed shall weigh fifty-six pounds (56 lbs.).
A bushel of hemp shall weigh forty-four pounds (44 lbs.).
A bushel of Hungarian seed shall weigh fifty pounds (50 lbs.).
A bushel of lime shall weigh seventy pounds (70 lbs.).
A bushel of malt shall weigh thirty-eight pounds (38 lbs.).
A bushel of millet seed shall weigh fifty pounds (50 lbs.).
A bushel of oats shall weigh thirty-two pounds (32 lbs.).
A bushel of onions shall weigh fifty pounds (50 lbs.).
A bushel of parsnips shall weigh fifty pounds (50 lbs.).
A bushel of peaches shall weigh forty-eight pounds (48 lbs.).
A bushel of peaches, dried, shall weigh thirty-three pounds (33 lbs.).
A bushel of peas shall weigh sixty pounds (60 lbs.).
A bushel of peas, split, shall weigh sixty pounds (60 lbs.).
A bushel of potatoes shall weigh sixty pounds (60 lbs.).
A bushel of potatoes, sweet, shall weigh fifty-four pounds (54 lbs.).
A bushel of rye shall weigh fifty-six pounds (56 lbs.).
A bushel of rye meal shall weigh fifty pounds (50 lbs.).
A bushel of salt, fine, shall weigh fifty pounds (50 lbs.).
A bushel of salt, coarse, shall weigh seventy pounds (70 lbs.).
A bushel of timothy seed shall weigh forty-five pounds (45 lbs.).
A bushel of shorts shall weigh twenty pounds (20 lbs.).
A bushel of tomatoes shall weigh fifty-six pounds (56 lbs.).
A bushel of turnips shall weigh fifty pounds (50 lbs.).
A bushel of wheat shall weigh sixty pounds (60 lbs.)
The Simpsons covered the theory about the Stonecutters and the Metric system, they also hold back the electric car and made Steve Guttenberg a star.
I still think people in the United States don't want to make the change because there is no freakin' advantage in it.
Switching a couple billion road signs to km don't make the trip go faster.
Read it.
Still think there is no tangable benifit to the costs associated with the United States mandating a switch.
Besides, I don't see that the States could on thier own order the change, and the Federal Government couldn't either, even if they wanted to.