Back in the days when gas was 20 cents a gallon (and gas station attendent(s) pumped the gas for you plus check tire pressure, oil, and water levels), and also when Stan Lee created Spiderman, X-men, and The Avengers for the Marvel Comics group (yep, if they were real-life characters, they'd be old enough to collect social security).
Another character in Marvel "universe" was Patsy Walker. She didn't have superpowers but she had lots of beautiful dresses and unlimited budget to buy them all. Not created at Marvel but adopted from earlier comic publishers, Marvel series by artist Al Hartley, Al and Stan featured Patsy wearing various fashions submitted by readers. Probably real exciting because that was "internet forums" at the time. Examples here,
http://marlendy.wordpress.com/...
Another cultural interest is this #106 April 1963 issue has lots of bouffant dress fashions popular at the time. Consider that shortly after in next year or two, this fashion was dead.
http://static.comicvine.com/up...
While Stan Lee developed large male readership with Spiderman, X-men, etc. he also probably developed large female readership with Patsy Walker by engaging readers to submit fashion ideas. Though able to capitalize on movies nowadays using comic characters from more than 50 years ago, except for Patsy Walker, how many women dress up for occasions these days anyway?
Like many of early Marvel characters, Patsy Walker evolved into another form. No longer in the fancy gowns but out fighting bad guys with ferocity of a Navy SEAL as "Hellcat."
from my experience I've found San Jose airport has really good wifi. Free, easy to connect, and pretty fast too. Far superior to Google's wifi in Mountain View. And can view whatever websites you want. Frustrating other airports don't do the same (I have used paid services but they are terribly slow), it gets really dry waiting for connecting flights (but then there is the 20th century method of getting smarter by reading a book). Very tempting to get a Ubiquiti Bullet and high gain yagi aimed at SJC airport. But there's considerable distance and many buildings and trees in between, and of course not kosher with their User Agreement.
I never did look into how LEDs are made (hey, I just buy and put them to use) and that it is a "cottage industry." And LEDs are made in open air facilities instead of clean rooms. I can start my own LED factory but unlike the author I don't have a basement.
PBS program on Einstein mentioned images and calculations from 1919 eclipse was doubtful. Some claimed it did not show bending of light (star positions still where they should be) but others said, "not so fast." It was 1922 which William Campbell got beautiful images of stars around the eclipsed sun, observed 92 stars observed positions from where they should be. Campbell's first telegram was to Albert saying these images and calculations definitely support his theories. Of course it was not easy for Campbell, his first solar eclipse expedition in 1914 went bust at outbreak of WWI, and following attempts in later years were not good. It was 1922 which Campbell got great images while everyone else (and there were several) either got weathered out or had poor techniques. Another fascinating talked about in this PBS program was after WWI Germans were hated by Brits, French, Americans but Einstein was very welcomed and was a huge "rock star" where all these people wanted to meet him, get autographs, get pic taken with him. Even though virtually all don't understand theory of relativity.
I rather they put innovation into compelling stories and documentaries for stuff to be shown on TVs. With good programs I could care less what kind of TV I'm looking at.
not sure why this was modded down (currently at -1) but really considering first B52 flight was more than 60 years ago. Think of US entering Vietnam on massive scale like it did in 1965 with weapon systems from 1905, that doesn't include aircraft. Army Signal Corps bought first US military aircraft from Wright Bros in 1909.
I had (still have) problems with Dazzler video-to-usb. After long campaign to get video to work but never can get audio feed. Customer support is useless so that leaves the forums, which most are bankrupt. Most of posts are people with same problems, most solutions are copy/paste from same post from whereever (which does not address problem). But all these forums you gotta register with account name and password.
There used to be usenet where anyone can post and read, and since it was not technically sophisticated, you can't really copy/paste same crap over and over (you had to type your writings like a typewriter). This was also before the marketeers and spammers overran everything. sob!
Interesting essay, my elementary math books are all gone. I still have my elementary algebra book but I've not seen latest books used in today's public schools. I have my great grandfather's textbook he used to when he taught high school math (I need to try some of those exercises!)
Here we live in a country that has a fabulous constitution and all these guarantees, a contract between the citizens and the government - nobody knows what's in it. It's one of the best kept secrets.
I wonder after the turbulent 1960s, there has been a systematic process to dumb down general population and repress anyone that seriously challenges The System.
Getting back to math, it seems there's all kinds of new methods such as the New Math or Core Math or whatever. To me, math is math. We start with arithmetic (these are like learning basic dance steps i.e. basic waltz box of forward, side, together, back, side, together), then move into algebra and trig (moving the waltz on line of dance), then calculus because that's where the action is (dance analogy of add sway and style to the waltz, accentuating the musicality and beat management by phrasing to the music). And if you really got the urge go for the researcher/PhD/mathematician (open pro competition dancer) where you define new concepts.
There was an article "Children Can Learn Calculus" and it was mentioned all endless timed tests (teachers call them "drill and kill") given throughout K-12 like the military where soldiers given several repeating small tasks as a form of punishment.
so do I, and every major bank including ones I don't have accounts with! with all kidding aside some of these spoof sites are pretty impressive, until you see what domain they actually point to. Scary thing is many people don't at bottom of window to see what URL (or worse the browser has this option turned off).
user alerts will begin __LATER_TODAY__. That means that alerts would not have begun prior to you checking your account __EARLIER_TODAY__.
Again: Later today.
though risking karma getting into this fray, I must ask why LATER? If ebay knows problem occurred, they should send out notice immediately instead letting the forums run wild (if I see lots of stuff on forums but nothing from ebay then I would think it is a hoax. There's lots of similar crap on forums). Not all ebay users read slashdot, cnet, reddit, or ebayinc.
Florida is just barely above sea level now, and is very flat.
Does that mean they have to build levees around Kennedy Space Center? There was a news report that talked about impact at KSC with rising sea levels. yikes.
When people are convicted of crimes, they are to be punished. Tickets are that document of infraction (crime punishable by fine). More severe punishments are misdemeanors and felonies (punishable by fines and/or free lodging at the slammer). So when governments use tickets as revenue sources, something has gone wrong in judicial process (yes, so what else new?).
A high percentage of well moneyed and educated individuals in China have plans to emigrate to foreign countries...
Yes, I've read this same thing many (or most) Chinese will emigrate given the opportunity. One reason is nobody can buy land in China (well maybe for top politburo members), you can lease but not like here in US where you can own it. Kind of like way back when in Europe only royals and nobles can buy land, and was motivator for commoners to take chances moving to the New World.
Getting back to this theme "Chinese stealing our secrets," not really, mostly these were given away (outsourcing).
One of the reasons the FAA (then CAA) was INVENTED was because planes crashed so often that the industry was never going to become viable.
which is good as long as FAA doesn't get "regulatory capture" by industry like the FCC has become. I also recall for parachuting equipment (canopies, rigs, etc) all are TSO and materials had to be MIL-SPEC. But those mil-specs were defunked but were picked up by Parachute Industry Association which maintains PIA-specs for materials.
it seems common theme these days is too much money is spent on services that benefit the common person and reason common folk are experiencing more financial hardships is because it is their fault. This is totally nuts. Meanwhile this country's confidence continues to fall, more and more people losing faith in their govt leaders. Then everyone bitches why nobody can get anything done.
for one yes, zillions of channels that I have zero interest in watching. Some channels I find myself watching less (I gave up on Discovery and AMC years ago) and I've noticed TCM is going downhill (do they really have to show Singing In The Rain three times a month? we all have the DVD). I probably can cut the cord and not miss much. However, living in condo limits OTA.
Speaking of OTA, I find amusing advertisements "watch HDTV for free with this amazing device! You can spend $100/month, that's $1200 per year and $12,000 for 10 years! But with this for only $19.95 you will never need to subscribe or pay monthly fees. You can watch lots of HDTV from the major broadcasters thanks to the FCC ruling that says they must broadcast digital over the air. Call this number and get started on watching HDTV for free!" Geez, it's an antenna but that is a clever line about FCC (they didn't say TV has to be broadcast over the air for free viewing, it just has to be digital). I'm old enough to remember when receiving TV from an antenna is common practice but I guess for many young people have never seen that so they figure this "device" is amazing (young techies are exception).
but not good in deterring Putin from taking Ukraine. Reading stuff at http://globalsecurity.org/ it suggests Estonia is vulnerable as well. Geez, this country's security strategy has got to be the worst of all times.
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Back in the days when gas was 20 cents a gallon (and gas station attendent(s) pumped the gas for you plus check tire pressure, oil, and water levels), and also when Stan Lee created Spiderman, X-men, and The Avengers for the Marvel Comics group (yep, if they were real-life characters, they'd be old enough to collect social security).
Another character in Marvel "universe" was Patsy Walker. She didn't have superpowers but she had lots of beautiful dresses and unlimited budget to buy them all. Not created at Marvel but adopted from earlier comic publishers, Marvel series by artist Al Hartley, Al and Stan featured Patsy wearing various fashions submitted by readers. Probably real exciting because that was "internet forums" at the time. Examples here, http://marlendy.wordpress.com/...
Another cultural interest is this #106 April 1963 issue has lots of bouffant dress fashions popular at the time. Consider that shortly after in next year or two, this fashion was dead. http://static.comicvine.com/up...
While Stan Lee developed large male readership with Spiderman, X-men, etc. he also probably developed large female readership with Patsy Walker by engaging readers to submit fashion ideas. Though able to capitalize on movies nowadays using comic characters from more than 50 years ago, except for Patsy Walker, how many women dress up for occasions these days anyway?
Like many of early Marvel characters, Patsy Walker evolved into another form. No longer in the fancy gowns but out fighting bad guys with ferocity of a Navy SEAL as "Hellcat."
from my experience I've found San Jose airport has really good wifi. Free, easy to connect, and pretty fast too. Far superior to Google's wifi in Mountain View. And can view whatever websites you want. Frustrating other airports don't do the same (I have used paid services but they are terribly slow), it gets really dry waiting for connecting flights (but then there is the 20th century method of getting smarter by reading a book). Very tempting to get a Ubiquiti Bullet and high gain yagi aimed at SJC airport. But there's considerable distance and many buildings and trees in between, and of course not kosher with their User Agreement.
I never did look into how LEDs are made (hey, I just buy and put them to use) and that it is a "cottage industry." And LEDs are made in open air facilities instead of clean rooms. I can start my own LED factory but unlike the author I don't have a basement.
PBS program on Einstein mentioned images and calculations from 1919 eclipse was doubtful. Some claimed it did not show bending of light (star positions still where they should be) but others said, "not so fast." It was 1922 which William Campbell got beautiful images of stars around the eclipsed sun, observed 92 stars observed positions from where they should be. Campbell's first telegram was to Albert saying these images and calculations definitely support his theories. Of course it was not easy for Campbell, his first solar eclipse expedition in 1914 went bust at outbreak of WWI, and following attempts in later years were not good. It was 1922 which Campbell got great images while everyone else (and there were several) either got weathered out or had poor techniques. Another fascinating talked about in this PBS program was after WWI Germans were hated by Brits, French, Americans but Einstein was very welcomed and was a huge "rock star" where all these people wanted to meet him, get autographs, get pic taken with him. Even though virtually all don't understand theory of relativity.
I rather they put innovation into compelling stories and documentaries for stuff to be shown on TVs. With good programs I could care less what kind of TV I'm looking at.
for a moment there I thought they was bringing back the CRT!
back in the days "man-rated" meant the ICBM was modified to not shake the man apart in pogo oscillations and speed the capsule up to 17,500 mph.
what about training to secure your finances i.e. retirement funds from Wall Street predators?
not sure why this was modded down (currently at -1) but really considering first B52 flight was more than 60 years ago. Think of US entering Vietnam on massive scale like it did in 1965 with weapon systems from 1905, that doesn't include aircraft. Army Signal Corps bought first US military aircraft from Wright Bros in 1909.
I had (still have) problems with Dazzler video-to-usb. After long campaign to get video to work but never can get audio feed. Customer support is useless so that leaves the forums, which most are bankrupt. Most of posts are people with same problems, most solutions are copy/paste from same post from whereever (which does not address problem). But all these forums you gotta register with account name and password.
There used to be usenet where anyone can post and read, and since it was not technically sophisticated, you can't really copy/paste same crap over and over (you had to type your writings like a typewriter). This was also before the marketeers and spammers overran everything. sob!
Interesting essay, my elementary math books are all gone. I still have my elementary algebra book but I've not seen latest books used in today's public schools. I have my great grandfather's textbook he used to when he taught high school math (I need to try some of those exercises!)
Here we live in a country that has a fabulous constitution and all these guarantees, a contract between the citizens and the government - nobody knows what's in it. It's one of the best kept secrets.
I wonder after the turbulent 1960s, there has been a systematic process to dumb down general population and repress anyone that seriously challenges The System.
Getting back to math, it seems there's all kinds of new methods such as the New Math or Core Math or whatever. To me, math is math. We start with arithmetic (these are like learning basic dance steps i.e. basic waltz box of forward, side, together, back, side, together), then move into algebra and trig (moving the waltz on line of dance), then calculus because that's where the action is (dance analogy of add sway and style to the waltz, accentuating the musicality and beat management by phrasing to the music). And if you really got the urge go for the researcher/PhD/mathematician (open pro competition dancer) where you define new concepts.
There was an article "Children Can Learn Calculus" and it was mentioned all endless timed tests (teachers call them "drill and kill") given throughout K-12 like the military where soldiers given several repeating small tasks as a form of punishment.
so do I, and every major bank including ones I don't have accounts with! with all kidding aside some of these spoof sites are pretty impressive, until you see what domain they actually point to. Scary thing is many people don't at bottom of window to see what URL (or worse the browser has this option turned off).
user alerts will begin __LATER_TODAY__. That means that alerts would not have begun prior to you checking your account __EARLIER_TODAY__.
Again: Later today.
though risking karma getting into this fray, I must ask why LATER? If ebay knows problem occurred, they should send out notice immediately instead letting the forums run wild (if I see lots of stuff on forums but nothing from ebay then I would think it is a hoax. There's lots of similar crap on forums). Not all ebay users read slashdot, cnet, reddit, or ebayinc.
Florida is just barely above sea level now, and is very flat.
Does that mean they have to build levees around Kennedy Space Center? There was a news report that talked about impact at KSC with rising sea levels. yikes.
When people are convicted of crimes, they are to be punished. Tickets are that document of infraction (crime punishable by fine). More severe punishments are misdemeanors and felonies (punishable by fines and/or free lodging at the slammer). So when governments use tickets as revenue sources, something has gone wrong in judicial process (yes, so what else new?).
I remember when ONE MILLION DOLLARS was a lot of money.
A high percentage of well moneyed and educated individuals in China have plans to emigrate to foreign countries ...
Yes, I've read this same thing many (or most) Chinese will emigrate given the opportunity. One reason is nobody can buy land in China (well maybe for top politburo members), you can lease but not like here in US where you can own it. Kind of like way back when in Europe only royals and nobles can buy land, and was motivator for commoners to take chances moving to the New World.
Getting back to this theme "Chinese stealing our secrets," not really, mostly these were given away (outsourcing).
is going to Siberia.
maybe they should start practicing this dance routine, https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
One of the reasons the FAA (then CAA) was INVENTED was because planes crashed so often that the industry was never going to become viable.
which is good as long as FAA doesn't get "regulatory capture" by industry like the FCC has become. I also recall for parachuting equipment (canopies, rigs, etc) all are TSO and materials had to be MIL-SPEC. But those mil-specs were defunked but were picked up by Parachute Industry Association which maintains PIA-specs for materials.
it seems common theme these days is too much money is spent on services that benefit the common person and reason common folk are experiencing more financial hardships is because it is their fault. This is totally nuts. Meanwhile this country's confidence continues to fall, more and more people losing faith in their govt leaders. Then everyone bitches why nobody can get anything done.
there was a time when they paid more taxes, and they were still rich (and also employed many others in this same country).
look how much publicity he got for filing a simple claim and getting a temporary injunction.
inspired someone to make this video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
for one yes, zillions of channels that I have zero interest in watching. Some channels I find myself watching less (I gave up on Discovery and AMC years ago) and I've noticed TCM is going downhill (do they really have to show Singing In The Rain three times a month? we all have the DVD). I probably can cut the cord and not miss much. However, living in condo limits OTA.
Speaking of OTA, I find amusing advertisements "watch HDTV for free with this amazing device! You can spend $100/month, that's $1200 per year and $12,000 for 10 years! But with this for only $19.95 you will never need to subscribe or pay monthly fees. You can watch lots of HDTV from the major broadcasters thanks to the FCC ruling that says they must broadcast digital over the air. Call this number and get started on watching HDTV for free!" Geez, it's an antenna but that is a clever line about FCC (they didn't say TV has to be broadcast over the air for free viewing, it just has to be digital). I'm old enough to remember when receiving TV from an antenna is common practice but I guess for many young people have never seen that so they figure this "device" is amazing (young techies are exception).
but not good in deterring Putin from taking Ukraine. Reading stuff at http://globalsecurity.org/ it suggests Estonia is vulnerable as well. Geez, this country's security strategy has got to be the worst of all times.