The entry level Technician class ham radio operator license is stupid easy to get now days which gives you 2M and 144cm. Goto www.QRZ.com/ht/ and use their free online practice tests from the bank of FCC questions and you should be able to pass the test in 3 weeks of practice. The test is $15 for a 10 year license. I have talked to Boulder, Birmingham, and Houston from the Dallas area using a simple Yagi antenna on a 10' PVC pipe with 55 watts on 2M.
During the last ice age, the ocean levels dropped ~40 meters and has since risen to its current level. If the coral reefs can withstand that change, it can withstand the changes whatever small changes we got in the past decades.
First scenario. A group of disaffected youth break into a business with a crowbar. They steal the cash box and trade the list of credit card reciepts to the local dope dealer for a couple of lids. They trash the inventory and take what they want. The local police later arrest the group trying to fence the stolen goods at a local pawn shop. They goto court and their defense is that it was the shop owner's fault that he didn't have an infantry squad guarding his store. They are sentenced to 1-3 years in the penitentary and the community is glad that the group of thugs are off the street.
Second scenario. A group of disaffected youth gain entrance into the computer system of a business with a script. They take the database table of credit card users and sell it online to the Russian mafia then go buy a couple of lids. They truncate the database's table of customers and have online system ship electronic goodies to their Mom's basement. They go online and claim that it is the business owner's fault that he didn't have the latest and greatest security system. The Slashdot crowd acclaim their skillz and anxiously await their next exploit.
Let's cut the tax that gives the FCC its subsidy money so that the companies have cash to do this on their own. The FCC is acting like they own this money and are willing to throw the serfs some alms from their carriage as they go by.
We're between ice ages. It is suppose to warm up. At the height of the last ice age, the sea levels were ~40 meters lower than they are now. The sea level has risen as the ice recedes. Somehow the reefs have kept up with but you hear nothing but weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth over any change that impacts the reefs. It has happened before. It is happening now. And the cycle will happen again.
BitTorrent was used to spread the Climate Research Unit's hacked emails to show how climate change is a hoax. In the future, we will not have the ability to distribute important news due to RIAA's concern about getting royalties from 70 year old Mickey Mouse cartoons.
Belarus is the last USSR style communist state in Eastern Europe. The USA readers would probably better understand it as a European version of North Korea. The statue of Lenin still stands in front of their nation's capital building and there is a statue on a side street commemorating the site of the founding of the USSR's KGB.
There is no private property in Belarus. Everything is owned by the state which is tightly controlled by President Lukashenko.
But they do have free medical care for all its citizens.:-\
It would be nice to get a minimal # of stocks and demand that SCO print the certificates of shares for it. Then hang them in the den like people have war trophies of the defeated.
an army of observers armed, not with guns, but with text messages.
If they only have cell phones and no way to physically back it up, they're just a self important cluster phuque with cell phones. Once they are done with their self congratulatory phase, they will go back to their nice safe homes and leave Africa to return to the state of barbarity into which it has settled. It is best described by the quote from the movie 'Hotel Rwanda', "You're not even a nigger. You're an African."
Sad to say, Everyday I see more the reason that the Founding Fathers put the Second Amendment into our Bill of Rights. Note that one of the first things that Mugabe did in Zimbabwe was first register all the guns for 'safety of the children' and, then, he sent soldiers around to pick them up.
Middle Eastern men between the ages of 18 and 30 are the ones that hijack and kill.
Take the PC bullshit blue pill all you want, but if you look at who has killed whom over the past 25 years of this jihad; it is Middle Eastern men between the ages of 18 and 30. What good does it for a TSA agent to grope an 85 year old grandmother?? It satisfies your PC opinions but does absolutely zero to stop terrorism. Blather platitudes about equal rights all you want, but remember that they declared war on the West and have started killing us.
It is time to stop the stupidity. Until then, 'If the shoe fits, wear it.'
There is a substantial percentage (~30%) of 'Sex Offenders' that are convicted for only having been caught urinating on the side of the road by the police. The old 'indecent exposure' charge.
So, a large number of people's lives have been ruined due to simply not having a rest stop handy after drinking coffee to stay awake on a trip. Now, how many here have done that? Now, imagine what it would like if you were stopped by the cops and branded as a child molester for the rest of your life for it?
The basic difference that most here are failing to grasp is the the Avian Flu is going to be a pandemic initially spread by water fowl with its victims not having much of a say in contracting a virus with a ~30% lethality in healthy adults while HIV is 100% preventable by keeping one's penis in one's pants(with the notable exception of the 8 year old females being raped as a cure for AIDS in SubSaharan Afrika). Read that again, ~30% of healthy adults that get this virus die. Die, as in dead. Not coming back. No reboot. No sequel. No Version 2.0.
The kicker is that this virus saw Tamiflu early on in Viet Nam and now exhibits some resistance to Tamiflu, so stockpiling Tamiflu may be grasping at straws to control this pandemic. One thing to keep in mind about antiviral medications such as Tamiflu, Amantadine, Rimantidine and Relenza they are only effective if take within 24-48 hours onset of symptoms. If you miss that window the medication is really useless. And are you really trusting of FEMA or any other government bureaucracy to show up at your house within 24 hours of you starting to have symptoms of a flu with a ~30% lethality rate??
If I had to choose between having Bushie in the White House and Saddam Hussein in the White House, I'd pick Saddam without even thinking twice.
Oh, sounds really liberalprogressive to diss Bush but to say that you'd prefer someone that thought being merciful to political prisoners meant throwing them head first into a wood chipper instead of feet first is laughable.
I've mailed in a lot of these and have yet to get anything back. Now, when I goto buy something, I base my purchase price on what is listed. When the sales staff tries to tell me about the mail-in discount, I offer to trade them the receipts for 75% of the mail-in rebate's value in cash. None have ever taken me up on it.
Money talks and BS walks. If it was real, then they could do it in the store.
Given the atrocities by the head of the Human Rights Commission against their own people in Sudan. Given the outstanding ethical way that they handled the oil-for-food program with Saddam's Iraq. Given the freedom of speech support by the member states of Iran, Communist China, and North Korea. And you want to entrust them your right of free speech won at the cost of blood of our veterans over the past 200+ years?
There hasn't been a successful UN mission without US involvement. They need US, we don't need them. We don't need a psycho dictator from some back water Third World shit hole telling us what we can and cannot see on the internet.
I use god@heaven.com in cc: lines for the corporate email responses when someone adds everybody remotely related to the 'issue' to an email. When anyone does a ReplyAll, they get back an undeliverable message from god@heaven.com. In other words, HE doesn't want to hear you whining. The humour is lost on a lot of people.
That is what Moore is calling his fellow Americans, "They are possibly the dumbest people on the planet...". And judging by the bunch that has swallowed his male bovine feces hook, line, and sinker here; I have to agree with him.
Try being an RN if you think your tech job is too stressful. Phuque up and someone dies. Now, that is stress. Why do you think that the average male RN lasts only 3 years and the average female RN lasts 4.5 years before leaving that profession for good?
Folks, hate to break it to you; but it supposed to get warmer. It is the end of an Ice Age and part of the natural cycle of things. These tend to run in 1000 year cycles.
About 985AD, Leif Ericson's Viking colony in Greenland raised wheat. How, because it was warmer then than it is today! Circa 43BC, Julius Caesar wrote of the red wine vineyards in England. Sorry, it is too cold today to have such grapes in England.
The area that I live, Dallas, Texas has been under water a number of times. I'm not worried about it going back under water in my life time. So, it is not the end of the world, my children friends, but part of the natural cycle on this planet. Think in geologic time spans and it will make a lot more sense.
Slashdot Mirror
"free subsidized" _*IS*_ an oxymoron.
The entry level Technician class ham radio operator license is stupid easy to get now days which gives you 2M and 144cm. Goto www.QRZ.com/ht/ and use their free online practice tests from the bank of FCC questions and you should be able to pass the test in 3 weeks of practice. The test is $15 for a 10 year license. I have talked to Boulder, Birmingham, and Houston from the Dallas area using a simple Yagi antenna on a 10' PVC pipe with 55 watts on 2M.
During the last ice age, the ocean levels dropped ~40 meters and has since risen to its current level. If the coral reefs can withstand that change, it can withstand the changes whatever small changes we got in the past decades.
First scenario. A group of disaffected youth break into a business with a crowbar. They steal the cash box and trade the list of credit card reciepts to the local dope dealer for a couple of lids. They trash the inventory and take what they want. The local police later arrest the group trying to fence the stolen goods at a local pawn shop. They goto court and their defense is that it was the shop owner's fault that he didn't have an infantry squad guarding his store. They are sentenced to 1-3 years in the penitentary and the community is glad that the group of thugs are off the street.
Second scenario. A group of disaffected youth gain entrance into the computer system of a business with a script. They take the database table of credit card users and sell it online to the Russian mafia then go buy a couple of lids. They truncate the database's table of customers and have online system ship electronic goodies to their Mom's basement. They go online and claim that it is the business owner's fault that he didn't have the latest and greatest security system. The Slashdot crowd acclaim their skillz and anxiously await their next exploit.
Given how this administration has screwed up everything that they've touched so far; what could possibly go wrong with this?
Let's cut the tax that gives the FCC its subsidy money so that the companies have cash to do this on their own. The FCC is acting like they own this money and are willing to throw the serfs some alms from their carriage as they go by.
I'm waiting on the WBC to have that 'grassy knoll' moment.
We're between ice ages. It is suppose to warm up. At the height of the last ice age, the sea levels were ~40 meters lower than they are now. The sea level has risen as the ice recedes. Somehow the reefs have kept up with but you hear nothing but weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth over any change that impacts the reefs. It has happened before. It is happening now. And the cycle will happen again.
BitTorrent was used to spread the Climate Research Unit's hacked emails to show how climate change is a hoax. In the future, we will not have the ability to distribute important news due to RIAA's concern about getting royalties from 70 year old Mickey Mouse cartoons.
Belarus is the last USSR style communist state in Eastern Europe. The USA readers would probably better understand it as a European version of North Korea. The statue of Lenin still stands in front of their nation's capital building and there is a statue on a side street commemorating the site of the founding of the USSR's KGB.
There is no private property in Belarus. Everything is owned by the state which is tightly controlled by President Lukashenko.
But they do have free medical care for all its citizens. :-\
It would be nice to get a minimal # of stocks and demand that SCO print the certificates of shares for it. Then hang them in the den like people have war trophies of the defeated.
an army of observers armed, not with guns, but with text messages.
If they only have cell phones and no way to physically back it up, they're just a self important cluster phuque with cell phones. Once they are done with their self congratulatory phase, they will go back to their nice safe homes and leave Africa to return to the state of barbarity into which it has settled. It is best described by the quote from the movie 'Hotel Rwanda', "You're not even a nigger. You're an African."
Sad to say, Everyday I see more the reason that the Founding Fathers put the Second Amendment into our Bill of Rights. Note that one of the first things that Mugabe did in Zimbabwe was first register all the guns for 'safety of the children' and, then, he sent soldiers around to pick them up.
Middle Eastern men between the ages of 18 and 30 are the ones that hijack and kill.
Take the PC bullshit blue pill all you want, but if you look at who has killed whom over the past 25 years of this jihad; it is Middle Eastern men between the ages of 18 and 30. What good does it for a TSA agent to grope an 85 year old grandmother?? It satisfies your PC opinions but does absolutely zero to stop terrorism. Blather platitudes about equal rights all you want, but remember that they declared war on the West and have started killing us.
It is time to stop the stupidity. Until then, 'If the shoe fits, wear it.'
wganz
There is a substantial percentage (~30%) of 'Sex Offenders' that are convicted for only having been caught urinating on the side of the road by the police. The old 'indecent exposure' charge.
So, a large number of people's lives have been ruined due to simply not having a rest stop handy after drinking coffee to stay awake on a trip. Now, how many here have done that? Now, imagine what it would like if you were stopped by the cops and branded as a child molester for the rest of your life for it?
wganz
It is suppose to warm up. We're living in a period between glaciation.
Do you really really want to turn the hands of time back to the point that the ocean levels drop 100 meters and have a kilometer of ice on Toronto?
Jeeez... It looks like 99.9% of the population slept through geology.
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wganz
Orwell's "1984" was an alarm clock we slept through.
The basic difference that most here are failing to grasp is the the Avian Flu is going to be a pandemic initially spread by water fowl with its victims not having much of a say in contracting a virus with a ~30% lethality in healthy adults while HIV is 100% preventable by keeping one's penis in one's pants(with the notable exception of the 8 year old females being raped as a cure for AIDS in SubSaharan Afrika). Read that again, ~30% of healthy adults that get this virus die. Die, as in dead. Not coming back. No reboot. No sequel. No Version 2.0.
The kicker is that this virus saw Tamiflu early on in Viet Nam and now exhibits some resistance to Tamiflu, so stockpiling Tamiflu may be grasping at straws to control this pandemic. One thing to keep in mind about antiviral medications such as Tamiflu, Amantadine, Rimantidine and Relenza they are only effective if take within 24-48 hours onset of symptoms. If you miss that window the medication is really useless. And are you really trusting of FEMA or any other government bureaucracy to show up at your house within 24 hours of you starting to have symptoms of a flu with a ~30% lethality rate??
If I had to choose between having Bushie in the White House and Saddam Hussein in the White House, I'd pick Saddam without even thinking twice.
Oh, sounds really liberalprogressive to diss Bush but to say that you'd prefer someone that thought being merciful to political prisoners meant throwing them head first into a wood chipper instead of feet first is laughable.
I've mailed in a lot of these and have yet to get anything back. Now, when I goto buy something, I base my purchase price on what is listed. When the sales staff tries to tell me about the mail-in discount, I offer to trade them the receipts for 75% of the mail-in rebate's value in cash. None have ever taken me up on it.
Money talks and BS walks. If it was real, then they could do it in the store.
Given the atrocities by the head of the Human Rights Commission against their own people in Sudan. Given the outstanding ethical way that they handled the oil-for-food program with Saddam's Iraq. Given the freedom of speech support by the member states of Iran, Communist China, and North Korea. And you want to entrust them your right of free speech won at the cost of blood of our veterans over the past 200+ years?
There hasn't been a successful UN mission without US involvement. They need US, we don't need them. We don't need a psycho dictator from some back water Third World shit hole telling us what we can and cannot see on the internet.
wganz
I use god@heaven.com in cc: lines for the corporate email responses when someone adds everybody remotely related to the 'issue' to an email. When anyone does a ReplyAll, they get back an undeliverable message from god@heaven.com. In other words, HE doesn't want to hear you whining. The humour is lost on a lot of people.
That is what Moore is calling his fellow Americans, "They are possibly the dumbest people on the planet...". And judging by the bunch that has swallowed his male bovine feces hook, line, and sinker here; I have to agree with him.
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Try being an RN if you think your tech job is too stressful. Phuque up and someone dies. Now, that is stress. Why do you think that the average male RN lasts only 3 years and the average female RN lasts 4.5 years before leaving that profession for good?
Suck it up and drive on.
Folks, hate to break it to you; but it supposed to get warmer. It is the end of an Ice Age and part of the natural cycle of things. These tend to run in 1000 year cycles.
About 985AD, Leif Ericson's Viking colony in Greenland raised wheat. How, because it was warmer then than it is today! Circa 43BC, Julius Caesar wrote of the red wine vineyards in England. Sorry, it is too cold today to have such grapes in England.
The area that I live, Dallas, Texas has been under water a number of times. I'm not worried about it going back under water in my life time. So, it is not the end of the world, my children friends, but part of the natural cycle on this planet. Think in geologic time spans and it will make a lot more sense.
My 2,
Will
Simple. Grab a pair of scissors in the other hand & cut it off.