The strength of the magnets depends on the size of the positioner and the designed seek time.
The Hi-end drives had much stronger, rare-earth, magnets. And the 5-1/4 SCSI drives had good (for the time) seek times. and huge positioners, and killer magnets.
Tear apart an old (early 90's) Micropolis 5-1/4 drive the positioner is not screwed or glued there are only guide pins. You'll be amazed at how hard it is to separate the halves of the positioner motor.
There is a lot of info about the history of closed ballots on this site:
Ballot Access
It takes a bit of digging but it is there. This article is interesting
The Importance of Ballot Access One item which it states is that access to the ballot has been degrading over time. As we gradually become something other than what the founders imagined.
As I understand it there are two ways to change laws.
One via the judiciary branch. The other is via referendum. This requires a large number of signers on a petition 50,000+. And those in power may disallow many of the signers claiming many reasons. So groups attempting this method usually try for twice as many votes as necessary.
Then we have the shining example of Wyoming (If memory serves) where the people got a measure on the ballot then the measure passed yet those in power have decided to ignore it. As I remember the people voted to legalize marijuana yet the government blocked it. The case I am talking about occurred in ~2006. I was living in Colorado at the time and hearing about this on the radio. This is how our government really works.
Another example of our vote being worthless is the electoral college. Should "we the people" actually elect someone other than one of our two "approved" choices, the electoral college would step in and vote for the "proper choice". No the electoral college may vote for whom ever they choose the popular vote is only sort-of a guide-line.
There is of course the last, third, method of changing the laws. The founders of the US realized this when they included the right of the people to keep and bear arms. And that is why the incumbent government wants to remove that right.
An open ballot is currently in line for court. I have not checked the status of it recently that was as of about 6 months ago. Don't know about initatives, seems like there were some on previous ballots. But, point taken.
My personal experience: The 2004 election in Oklahoma had only two candidates to select from for president. Had there been any other candidate on the ballot I could have voted but as it was the State took away my vote, without due-process.
My point is that the choices you are allowed are fixed.
You may vote for the Republican dejour or the Democrat dejour. Most states do not allow open ballots http://www.ballot-access.org/.
You can choose to put your money in my left pocket or my right pocket. Your pocket is not a choice.
Choose, but choose wisely. - Which shell is it under?
I would rather hire "Guido" to watch my back than J.Phucket Esq. to cover my legal exposure. An exposure that he and his cronies invented in the first place.
Health care is less and less of a good deal for Doctors of all types because of decreasing insurance payments and increasing hassle.
The cause is more laws and more lawyers. The insurance companies are working toward laws that make it mandatory to pay them and yet another set of laws that say that they do not have to pay your medical care professionals.
It is the insurance companies today who prescribe. Not the doctors. And the Doctors spend their money on protection insurance. Protection against the litigation.
Shakespeare was right, We really do need to hang all of the lawyers.
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Huh?
I've got good news and bad news.
The bad news: You have Alzheimer's.
The good: You can go home and forget about it.
THANK YOU.
From a 20+ year veteran of the disk drive industry. (recently escaped)
If your hard drive has a stepper motor it is probably a floppy or from the 80's and about 5mb capacity.
The strength of the magnets depends on the size of the positioner and the designed seek time.
The Hi-end drives had much stronger, rare-earth, magnets. And the 5-1/4 SCSI drives had good (for the time) seek times. and huge positioners, and killer magnets.
Tear apart an old (early 90's) Micropolis 5-1/4 drive the positioner is not screwed or glued there are only guide pins. You'll be amazed at how hard it is to separate the halves of the positioner motor.
No, our moon was a moon of Minerva until Minerva's two warring factions destroyed the planet and the moon was captured by Earth.
Inherit The Stars
There is a lot of info about the history of closed ballots on this site: Ballot Access It takes a bit of digging but it is there. This article is interesting The Importance of Ballot Access One item which it states is that access to the ballot has been degrading over time. As we gradually become something other than what the founders imagined.
As I understand it there are two ways to change laws. One via the judiciary branch. The other is via referendum. This requires a large number of signers on a petition 50,000+. And those in power may disallow many of the signers claiming many reasons. So groups attempting this method usually try for twice as many votes as necessary.
Then we have the shining example of Wyoming (If memory serves) where the people got a measure on the ballot then the measure passed yet those in power have decided to ignore it. As I remember the people voted to legalize marijuana yet the government blocked it. The case I am talking about occurred in ~2006. I was living in Colorado at the time and hearing about this on the radio. This is how our government really works.
Another example of our vote being worthless is the electoral college. Should "we the people" actually elect someone other than one of our two "approved" choices, the electoral college would step in and vote for the "proper choice". No the electoral college may vote for whom ever they choose the popular vote is only sort-of a guide-line.
There is of course the last, third, method of changing the laws. The founders of the US realized this when they included the right of the people to keep and bear arms. And that is why the incumbent government wants to remove that right.
An open ballot is currently in line for court. I have not checked the status of it recently that was as of about 6 months ago. Don't know about initatives, seems like there were some on previous ballots. But, point taken.
Oklahoma, No. But according to one site I found it is in court to have a more open ballot.
That depends on the state you live in. According to this article http://www.ballot-access.org/winger/iba.html since the late 1800's.
My personal experience: The 2004 election in Oklahoma had only two candidates to select from for president. Had there been any other candidate on the ballot I could have voted but as it was the State took away my vote, without due-process.
My point is that the choices you are allowed are fixed.
You may vote for the Republican dejour or the Democrat dejour. Most states do not allow open ballots http://www.ballot-access.org/.
You can choose to put your money in my left pocket or my right pocket. Your pocket is not a choice.
Choose, but choose wisely. - Which shell is it under?
- Cynicism, the ultimate result of experience.
"anyone who'd sell his lifelong right to vote should be deported."
Now there is the kind of freedom our fore fathers fought for. My way or the highway. Oh my bad, that is what we have in the US.
You forgot vote by bearing arms. Nothing to do with pushing up your sleeves.
I shall have my Lobby bring a beverage for you too, while we wile away the day watching scantily clad young laidies parading along the shore.
That's right. More proof that the vote is simply to appease the peepul.
Vote. Vote for what? One of the two choices that the ruling power allows.
You have been totally taken in.
Enjoy your delusion.
My Astronomy 101 taught that rotation was about an axis, and an satellite revolves about it's primary.
So the error was with semantics.
Why would you consider North to be up?
You fail the Kahn test. You are thinking two dimensionally.
Up would be away from the nearest gravity source.
Yea, back to CP/M.
Then they go to a friends, or the library...
Problem back!
I would rather hire "Guido" to watch my back than J.Phucket Esq. to cover my legal exposure. An exposure that he and his cronies invented in the first place.
- Institute a bounty for lawyers!
Health care is less and less of a good deal for Doctors of all types because of decreasing insurance payments and increasing hassle.
The cause is more laws and more lawyers. The insurance companies are working toward laws that make it mandatory to pay them and yet another set of laws that say that they do not have to pay your medical care professionals.
It is the insurance companies today who prescribe. Not the doctors. And the Doctors spend their money on protection insurance. Protection against the litigation.
Shakespeare was right, We really do need to hang all of the lawyers.
TFA Missed all but T.I.
Not teaching, generating an interest. Sheesh!
MacGyver SUCKS.
That show makes fun of those of us who are capable of doing many things and making do with what is available.