The ionized deuterium atoms then accelerated by this field towards a solid target of
erbium deuteride (ErD2).
In Contact (the book, not the movie), at one point, when they were assembling the Machine, they had some problem with ERBIUM DOWELS. Does erbium has some esoteric nuclear capabilities???
That reminds me of a funny thing that happenned with a big shovel...
We have that tunnel under downtown, which has TV cameras mounted on the side.
One night, each TV monitor went out, one by one.
Turns out that there was this guy with the shovel on a flatbed. Every week, that shovel was brought somewhere else through the same tunnel. But that week, another driver was doing it.
He had loaded the shovel "backwards"...
Something was protuding that knocked-off the TV cameras off the wall.
I'm a Brit and we generally don't tip. It used to be considered insulting in many sectors - "I work for a living I don't need charity" or "Am I a serf?". In fact I will tip if service and the meal is particularly good.
In some eastern Europe communist country, there used to be signs in caf*s "Tipping is an insult". But when someone didn't tip, waiters would ask, shocked, "you don't insult me???"...
An M915 is a tractor trailer, think an International or Freightliner you see on the highway but painted OD green.
Reminds me of a good one I heard...
My sister used to hang with a licence examinator; one day, at a party at her place, he told that story:
There was that kid (no more than 20) who was passing his licence to drive a 18-wheel rig. So, at the end of the first day, the guy tells him "Okay, come back tomorrow with an empty van".
The next day, the kid shows up with a depressed-center flatbed. Loaded with a 20 ton bulldozer on it.
* I told you "an empty van!!!", he said.
(meekly) * That's all I could find!!! the kid answered, just like if finding an empty van was an impossible thing to do...
So, they just went around the block, and the examinator saw that the kid knew how to handle a big rig and gave him his license...
More than 20 years ago, a $MAJOR_CLASS1_RAILROAD celebrated it's 100th birthday. To celebrate, they borrowed one of their old steam trains from $MAJOR_SCIENCE_MUSEUM.
They had to ferry the train about 200 miles each time. Luckily, they sold tickets for those ferry trips, so we could enjoy riding the train.
At that time, my grandfather died; he lived in $RAILROAD_TOWN about 1/4 of the way between the museum and the rail office. He was a civil engineer, and one of his pet peeve was about railroaders calling themselves "engineers" because they ran the engines...
The day of his funeral, there was a steam trip scheduled. I was on the inbound trip a few days earlier, and I went to see the museum director (whom I have known for years before), and I told him that when they'll get back home, at $RAILROAD _TOWN, there would be my grandfather's funeral.
"We'll take care of it", the director said.
So, when the funeral procession went out of the church, there was the steam train, with crew at attention, saluting my grandfather... Later, at the cemetery, everyone was suspecting that I had a hand in that...
Sigh. I used to know the founder of Camelot (it started as an ordinary newsstand, and they specialized in computer books because they were in the building where the computer science faculty of the UQAM used to be), a very nice woman who would take the trouble to order rare foreign magazines for me...
Then, one day, no more nice woman. They sold out to Pédaleau for a few million dollars...
We've got civil law, wich is far more evolved than the customary law used by the english.
With civil law, you know exactly where you stand in any given situation, where with the english law, the outcome is subject to who has the better (more expensive) lawyer.
Framemaker was an acquisition so Adobe is slowly killing off Framemaker. They have not released a Mac OS X version, the Linux port was killed after releasing a working beta, and the Windows version has gained basically zero features in the last several years. They would cancel it today if not for the thousands of users who would migrate to Quark.
But if Quirk Xpress would die a slow and horrible public death, the whole prepress industry would be happily liberated from one of the worst user-support experiences ever...
I'm no lawyer, but I cannot for a second imagine you winning a lawsuit for defamation of character in which an alarm goes off and the police are called.
Well, a lawyer friend of mine made a nifty $20,000 for precisely suing and winning a character defamation suit following a false arrest by a store security guard.
Asking somone to stop isn't arresting them as far as I am aware.
If you agree to stop, you're a sucker for bending over to a bourgeois lackey who thinks nothing at all of your human rights and dignity.
If you are COMPELLED to stop without reason, this is, indeed, false arrest.
Nine times out of ten I've been able to leave with that. Once I was told I'd be barred unless i was searched and shortly after that a policeman turned up. I was pronounced clean and whilst I may be barred I'm not sure - because there's no way I'm going back there.
Are you aware that you could have sued them for false arrest?
1 - go through detector
2 - alarm rings
3 - store bitches
4 - tell them to call the cops, because only the cops have the right to search you **AFTER** they put you under arrest; warn them that you will sue them for false arrest.
5 - they let you off, go home. That's it. OR
5 - they don't let you off.
6 - they call the cops. Cops don't find anything.
7 - sue them for false arrest and defamation of character.
8 - profit!!!
Very often, upon finding your innocence, they will offer to settle. Some 40 years ago, an aunt got herself to choose whatever she wanted from $BIG_CANADIAN_DEPT_STORE. She chose a mink coat...
Speed kills. As the energy dissipated during an inpact is proportionnal to que square of the speed, halving the speed will cause one fourth of the damage.
This alones is the best reason for much lower speed limits.
In addition, halving the speed with result in a quarter energy expenditure.
Furthermore, driving fast reduces the time needed to avoid accidents, so as reflexes do not speed-up when you go faster, the chances of accidents is much higher when going fast.
So, driving slower not only causes less accidents because there is more time to avoid accidents, it saves energy (and ultimately the planet), but it makes for far less damaging accidents.
It is this time of year where it is necessary to issue the usual reminder:
Driving is not an unalienable human right, but a revocable privilege that can be pulled anytime anyone does not drive properly and is a danger to other innocent users of the road.
As it is performed on a PUBLIC road, driving is NOT an activity that can be performed with any expectation of privacy whatsoever. Having a device to monitor driver behavious is not in any way different from having policemen stationned at each street corner.
These cons are there to serve a debt owed to society, not enjoy a free ride at our expense! no more internet use, spousal vists, gym equipment,tv, etc enough is enough. they should be out to work 8 - 10 hrs daily doing something for the community at large and for no pay ( I think they get a small allowance for prison jobs ). The rest of us work our asses off to obtain these things.
With an asshole comment like that, you only deserve that one of those cons, driven to desperation while incarcerated the way you want, will come to your house and tie you up while he rapes your wife and children.
This is all an asshole like you shall ever expect from Life.
The only solution is to take guns, and drive bullets through the heads of anyone associated with those "coin-operated" think-tanks. Eventually, they will run out of brainwhores for hire and will wither away.
If those people have the sole function to subvert the Republic, they do not have the right to live.
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We have that tunnel under downtown, which has TV cameras mounted on the side.
One night, each TV monitor went out, one by one.
Turns out that there was this guy with the shovel on a flatbed. Every week, that shovel was brought somewhere else through the same tunnel. But that week, another driver was doing it.
He had loaded the shovel "backwards"...
Something was protuding that knocked-off the TV cameras off the wall.
In some eastern Europe communist country, there used to be signs in caf*s "Tipping is an insult". But when someone didn't tip, waiters would ask, shocked, "you don't insult me???"...
My sister used to hang with a licence examinator; one day, at a party at her place, he told that story:
There was that kid (no more than 20) who was passing his licence to drive a 18-wheel rig. So, at the end of the first day, the guy tells him "Okay, come back tomorrow with an empty van".
The next day, the kid shows up with a depressed-center flatbed. Loaded with a 20 ton bulldozer on it.
* I told you "an empty van!!!", he said.
(meekly) * That's all I could find!!! the kid answered, just like if finding an empty van was an impossible thing to do... So, they just went around the block, and the examinator saw that the kid knew how to handle a big rig and gave him his license...
More than 20 years ago, a $MAJOR_CLASS1_RAILROAD celebrated it's 100th birthday. To celebrate, they borrowed one of their old steam trains from $MAJOR_SCIENCE_MUSEUM.
They had to ferry the train about 200 miles each time. Luckily, they sold tickets for those ferry trips, so we could enjoy riding the train.
At that time, my grandfather died; he lived in $RAILROAD_TOWN about 1/4 of the way between the museum and the rail office. He was a civil engineer, and one of his pet peeve was about railroaders calling themselves "engineers" because they ran the engines...
The day of his funeral, there was a steam trip scheduled. I was on the inbound trip a few days earlier, and I went to see the museum director (whom I have known for years before), and I told him that when they'll get back home, at $RAILROAD _TOWN, there would be my grandfather's funeral.
"We'll take care of it", the director said.
So, when the funeral procession went out of the church, there was the steam train, with crew at attention, saluting my grandfather... Later, at the cemetery, everyone was suspecting that I had a hand in that...
It just works. Barely.
Then, one day, no more nice woman. They sold out to Pédaleau for a few million dollars...
With civil law, you know exactly where you stand in any given situation, where with the english law, the outcome is subject to who has the better (more expensive) lawyer.
But if Quirk Xpress would die a slow and horrible public death, the whole prepress industry would be happily liberated from one of the worst user-support experiences ever...
And even better, given that Rocard is a socialist... That ought to infuriate the US even more... :) :) :)
If you are COMPELLED to stop without reason, this is, indeed, false arrest.
2 - alarm rings
3 - store bitches
4 - tell them to call the cops, because only the cops have the right to search you **AFTER** they put you under arrest; warn them that you will sue them for false arrest.
5 - they let you off, go home. That's it.
OR 5 - they don't let you off.
6 - they call the cops. Cops don't find anything.
7 - sue them for false arrest and defamation of character.
8 - profit!!!
Very often, upon finding your innocence, they will offer to settle. Some 40 years ago, an aunt got herself to choose whatever she wanted from $BIG_CANADIAN_DEPT_STORE. She chose a mink coat...
Speed kills. As the energy dissipated during an inpact is proportionnal to que square of the speed, halving the speed will cause one fourth of the damage.
This alones is the best reason for much lower speed limits.
In addition, halving the speed with result in a quarter energy expenditure.
Furthermore, driving fast reduces the time needed to avoid accidents, so as reflexes do not speed-up when you go faster, the chances of accidents is much higher when going fast.
So, driving slower not only causes less accidents because there is more time to avoid accidents, it saves energy (and ultimately the planet), but it makes for far less damaging accidents.
Driving is not an unalienable human right, but a revocable privilege that can be pulled anytime anyone does not drive properly and is a danger to other innocent users of the road.
As it is performed on a PUBLIC road, driving is NOT an activity that can be performed with any expectation of privacy whatsoever. Having a device to monitor driver behavious is not in any way different from having policemen stationned at each street corner.
This is all an asshole like you shall ever expect from Life.
It's MY computer, it's MY bandwdith, I can CHOOSE what will go on my browser window!!!
The only social contract there is is that I don't do anything illegal.
The only solution is to take guns, and drive bullets through the heads of anyone associated with those "coin-operated" think-tanks. Eventually, they will run out of brainwhores for hire and will wither away. If those people have the sole function to subvert the Republic, they do not have the right to live.
Does anyone else reading this thread has an impression of d*j* vu????
In The Fifth Element, one of the villains uses a remote-controlled cockroach to spy on the Earth president...
Bah, it can't be worse than the Inquisition Nuns in Mel Brook's History of the world, part I...