A great example of Christians missing the point: you know that the Bible doesn't feature the sin of Sodom and Gommorah as having anything to do with homosexuality?
But Leviticus is pretty clear:
18:22 You must not have sexual intercourse with a male as one has sexual intercourse with a woman; it is a detestable act.
20:13 If a man has sexual intercourse with a male as one has sexual intercourse with a woman, the two of them have committed an abomination. They must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves.
Draw your own conclusions, but there's a lot more than just that passage in Ezekiel.
The $40 I took home was in a state (Idaho) that did not have deposits. It was profit from the sale of recyclable materials. That was incentive to recycle. When localities introduced centralized curbside recycling, the cost exceeded the value of the materials collected, local independent recyclers closed down, and we all ended up paying money to get rid of recyclables. Sure, somebody somewhere had to be paid to process the materials, but many people at the local recycling centers lost their jobs.
No, not at all. I am very conservative, and I try to drive as little as possible, plant as many plants as I can every year, try to keep my power and heating bills as low as possible, and recycle everything I can possibly recycle.
What I'm still trying to figure out is how exactly the following increase recycling (welcome to Oregon):
1.) Instead of aluminum dealers paying $0.14/lb in coin for aluminum cans at collection machines all over the place, I have to take any store-brand cans back to the store where I purchased them and hand-feed them individually into a machine (after waiting in line 10 minutes) that scans the barcode to make sure I really did bring the can back to the right store, just to get a ticket that I can take to the cashier to get a refund of the $0.05/can I paid when I bought the soda. Don't forget, the deposit is only collected for carbonated and alcoholic beverage containers, so don't even try to return smoothie cans, juice bottles, or any other non-deposit container. Good like finding a recycler who will even accept them, because the state's recycling program has made independent recyclers a thing of the past, so all those non-deposit containers go, you guessed it, straight to the landfill.
2.) Curbside recycling -- sure, it's now simple to recycle the short list of accepted items, but of course we have to pay for the trucks and the people make it all happen. This is typically covered by a surcharge in the garbage bill, which some cities make not as much (but still a surcharge) if you routinely put something out. Again, this has nearly eliminated the independent recycling centers where we used to be *paid* for our recyclable materials.
I miss the Saturday afternoons from my childhood where we'd pick up $40 dropping off a load of cans, bottles, and newspaper a couple of miles from home.
really? you cant effect electricity without contact? ever heard of a transformer? ever heard of a clip-on noise filter? ever run your signal line to a car stereo next to the power line?
Ever heard of DC? No, I'm not talking about rectified alternator output.
CDMA requires time-of-day accuracy for proper handoff; CDMA modulation itself, not being TDMA, is much less dependent on PPS timing.
CDMA requires base stations to be within 10-microseconds (10*10^-6 s or 1E-5 s) of UTC.
Telcos that have been around a while (and plan to be around for some time to come) have cesium clocks (Stratum 1, 1E-11) at primary nodes in addition to their GPS-synced rubidium clocks (1E-12) that are placed throughout the network. The SONET ring carries the time signal by calibrating local oscillators to the reference signal, and a decent ADM can drop a DS-1 with that reference time signal. I'll grant you that I don't know whether wireless carriers actually bother using the ref clock since, duh, they have their GPS ref onsite, but they should have some concept of redundancy if they're connected to PSTN.
If you've lost your GPS clocks but your network is synced to the cesium clock at a primary node, you've still got 1E6 seconds (worst case) before the CDMA nodes go out of sync -- more than 11.5 days.
If you're just in holdover mode on the carrier equipment, yeah, you're hosed... but that usually means your base stations aren't connected to the rest of the network anyway.
Most likely they'll fall back to sync off the network signals from the regional switching center, which a smart telco would still back up with a real atomic BITS clock besides a GPS receiver.
Batteries don't work that way. You'd also have to swap out the electrodes; basically everything but the shell.
It would be easier to swap batteries. Not to mention, the more useful battery types (NiMH, Li-ion) don't really have free-flowing liquid electrolyte.
They need to get smarter about how they handle the info they do have. (Read as: We need smarter people in charge.)
Think you're one of those 'smarter people'? Then get involved. Apply for a job with an intelligence agency to improve the intelligence reports prepared for elected officials. Contact those who represent you in the government and tell them how you feel. Vote. Run for office yourself, or support someone who agrees with you. Don't just sit behind your computer and whine.
We're trying to avoid using 2 boxes per station, because of the space available, and the sheer number of stations we're going to build. A cow-orker suggested pairing stations... so each station would have access to two Linux boxes, but only have one at each station. Each would have two NICs.
It's easier than that. The tuner in your television (and many other types of tuners around your house) produces a weak signal at a fixed frequency offset from whatever channel you're tuning. It would be pretty easy for someone to drive through your neighborhood, point an aerial at your house, and figure out not only what channel you're watching, but what frequencies you're listening to on your Radio Shack scanner.
Of course, this wouldn't work for videos...
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Is that how I get people to stop asking me to fix their spyware-laden computers; just tell them I charge way more than the PFY down the street?
But Leviticus is pretty clear:
Draw your own conclusions, but there's a lot more than just that passage in Ezekiel.
It has been done
The $40 I took home was in a state (Idaho) that did not have deposits. It was profit from the sale of recyclable materials. That was incentive to recycle. When localities introduced centralized curbside recycling, the cost exceeded the value of the materials collected, local independent recyclers closed down, and we all ended up paying money to get rid of recyclables. Sure, somebody somewhere had to be paid to process the materials, but many people at the local recycling centers lost their jobs.
What I'm still trying to figure out is how exactly the following increase recycling (welcome to Oregon):
1.) Instead of aluminum dealers paying $0.14/lb in coin for aluminum cans at collection machines all over the place, I have to take any store-brand cans back to the store where I purchased them and hand-feed them individually into a machine (after waiting in line 10 minutes) that scans the barcode to make sure I really did bring the can back to the right store, just to get a ticket that I can take to the cashier to get a refund of the $0.05/can I paid when I bought the soda. Don't forget, the deposit is only collected for carbonated and alcoholic beverage containers, so don't even try to return smoothie cans, juice bottles, or any other non-deposit container. Good like finding a recycler who will even accept them, because the state's recycling program has made independent recyclers a thing of the past, so all those non-deposit containers go, you guessed it, straight to the landfill.
2.) Curbside recycling -- sure, it's now simple to recycle the short list of accepted items, but of course we have to pay for the trucks and the people make it all happen. This is typically covered by a surcharge in the garbage bill, which some cities make not as much (but still a surcharge) if you routinely put something out. Again, this has nearly eliminated the independent recycling centers where we used to be *paid* for our recyclable materials. I miss the Saturday afternoons from my childhood where we'd pick up $40 dropping off a load of cans, bottles, and newspaper a couple of miles from home.
Gentoo MIPS -- not complete, not very active, but at least started.
Some cities have figured out a solution...
Nope.
What do you think most spam is made up of these days?
Ever heard of DC? No, I'm not talking about rectified alternator output.
You do realize it costs around half a billion dollars just to get a shuttle up there, right?
Ok, tell me what I'm missing...
CDMA requires time-of-day accuracy for proper handoff; CDMA modulation itself, not being TDMA, is much less dependent on PPS timing.
CDMA requires base stations to be within 10-microseconds (10*10^-6 s or 1E-5 s) of UTC.
Telcos that have been around a while (and plan to be around for some time to come) have cesium clocks (Stratum 1, 1E-11) at primary nodes in addition to their GPS-synced rubidium clocks (1E-12) that are placed throughout the network. The SONET ring carries the time signal by calibrating local oscillators to the reference signal, and a decent ADM can drop a DS-1 with that reference time signal. I'll grant you that I don't know whether wireless carriers actually bother using the ref clock since, duh, they have their GPS ref onsite, but they should have some concept of redundancy if they're connected to PSTN.
If you've lost your GPS clocks but your network is synced to the cesium clock at a primary node, you've still got 1E6 seconds (worst case) before the CDMA nodes go out of sync -- more than 11.5 days.
If you're just in holdover mode on the carrier equipment, yeah, you're hosed... but that usually means your base stations aren't connected to the rest of the network anyway.
Most likely they'll fall back to sync off the network signals from the regional switching center, which a smart telco would still back up with a real atomic BITS clock besides a GPS receiver.
The future was here and it already passed you by.
You mean like positive transparencies on light tables?
Batteries don't work that way. You'd also have to swap out the electrodes; basically everything but the shell. It would be easier to swap batteries. Not to mention, the more useful battery types (NiMH, Li-ion) don't really have free-flowing liquid electrolyte.
T-mobile offers the Nokia 6010, a GSM phone that supports both 850 and 1900 MHz bands.
Ok, I'll bite. Show me an 802.11g card that *isn't* compatible with 802.11b.
Oh, please tell me you're being facetious... Why not just get a decent stereo with auxiliary inputs?
Think you're one of those 'smarter people'? Then get involved. Apply for a job with an intelligence agency to improve the intelligence reports prepared for elected officials. Contact those who represent you in the government and tell them how you feel. Vote. Run for office yourself, or support someone who agrees with you. Don't just sit behind your computer and whine.
Nag your local telco about PON (Passive Optical Networking).
It was $100 for the first two years. It only dropped to $70 (first two years) when the competing registrars started popping up.
You've understood the question perfectly.
We're trying to avoid using 2 boxes per station, because of the space available, and the sheer number of stations we're going to build. A cow-orker suggested pairing stations... so each station would have access to two Linux boxes, but only have one at each station. Each would have two NICs.
It's easier than that. The tuner in your television (and many other types of tuners around your house) produces a weak signal at a fixed frequency offset from whatever channel you're tuning. It would be pretty easy for someone to drive through your neighborhood, point an aerial at your house, and figure out not only what channel you're watching, but what frequencies you're listening to on your Radio Shack scanner. Of course, this wouldn't work for videos...