Forrest Mims is not meant for women, children, women who are nursing, or for women who may become pregnant. Mims should also be avoided by people with histories of heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, or short tempers.
Oooops. Sorry guys. The wife has that idiot boob tube playing, and I thought I was taking dictation for some reason.;^)
Hmmm. How would YOU train soldiers? There were no segways, no robots back in my day. Or, more accurately, the few robots we had were capable of very limited functions, like loading a missile onto a missile launcher.
As already mentioned, blowing holes in paper targets is exactly that, a hole in a paper. Papers don't move, except a few rather complicated setups which move the target in one linear direction, or the reverse. Those robots can move in at least two dimensions, at varying speeds, and probably in 3 dimensions if ramps are built for them. Pretty good training, really. And as Gravatron has already pointed out, shooting at people can ruin people's days.
Let's just hope they aren't paying the price of an Apache helicopter for these robots.
Not odd at all, if you stop and think about human nature for a moment. What he's saying is, "My drugs aren't as bad as the drugs that I've rejected." Yes, I know that alcohol and tobacco kill more people than several other drugs combined. All the same, I like a little alcohol now and then, and I'm addicted to tobacco. Caffeine isn't even listed, but I'm also addicted to that.
I question the position they've given cocaine, though. They are certainly lumping white powder cocaine together with the rocks that people smoke. If they separated nose candy from rock candy, where would each appear on those charts?
From experience in the Navy, I can verify the fiscal thing. Each quarter, we would "purchase" things out of our own storerooms, so that the books balanced within a couple of dollars. Across the board, we did this. The galley (or kitchen, for you landlubbers), office supplies, paint, you name it. The money had to be spent, or lost. At the end of the fiscal year, same thing. Spend right down to the very last dollar, never turn money in, or the next year your budget would shrink.
Damn shame that things work that way. It's an incentive to waste.
You are right - at least 70% right. But, it is within Obama's authority and within Obama's power to just TELL everyone that the negotiations are going to be transparent. Obama has to have made a personal decision, or at least approved of someone else's decision, to keep things "Top Sikrit". Just one sentence is all it takes to blow ACTA out of the water.
Well - if any of those governments involved were really superior to our own pitiful government, they would refuse to participate in secret talks concering a secret treaty. They're all dirtbags, from Oz to Europe to America. Who else is involved? Surely there are Asian countries in on it. But, I kind of expect most Asian governments to be secretive. Dirtbags all, willing to sell their people's rights for a few campaign dollars.
Add together poor color vision, and near sightedness. Plus, being crossed eyed, but that was corrected as a very young age. Today, it's astygmatism and slowly developing cataracts.
I got used to the idea that I can't see things just like other people see them ages ago. The 3-D glasses do nothing for me, and the movies just seem so much nonsense.
Ehhh. If anything, it's good to hear that I'm not all alone.
Now, maybe if they would start working on holographic movies, they could sell more to people like me.
Then again, maybe not. I mean, most of the movies are ass hat stupid to start with, they wouldn't be improved just because I can see them better. Watch that next action thriller with a critical eye. The good guy never takes cover, standing in plain sight of everyone with a weapon, and no one can hit him. The bad guys actually make good use of cover, but the bad guy picks them off by the dozen, using two machine guns ambidextrously. Ass hat stupid, I say.
Uhhh, you are mistaken. Black, white, and brown people cross the border every single day with tons and tons of stuff agricultural goods. Every single day. I've been on the border, and the border patrol doesn't look any harder at one type of person than he looks at another. They MAYBE look a little harder at young people than older people, but that could just be my own perception. "Younger people" meaning mid teens to maybe 35. Old goats like myself aren't likely to set off any alarms, unless we're acting stupid.
I'd invite you to try it sometime, but if you are a nervous paranoid sort of person, you WILL be stopped and questioned, LMAO
Illegal drug dealers have to cope with all sorts of regulations that outlaw the stuff. The drug runners are either ignorant dupes, or if they are aware of what they are doing, they demand huge payments for the risks they take.
Remove the regulations which dictate that transporting a ton of weed into the US means years of prison time, those transportation costs will drop to about the same as transporting a ton of watermelon. Next to nothing. Your prices will plummet.
So, you see, it isn't exactly "free market" at all.
Go cut a ton of bermuda grass and drive across the border. You may be stopped by an agricultural inspector, who will search for signs of fire and infestation, or similar problems. But, he won't give a rat's ass about your bermuda grass, even if he suspects that you're going to smoke it.
To me, "real jobs" do not include politics and acting. I mean, productive jobs, jobs that support productive jobs, research, service work of some sort, you know, people that "do things". At best, a governor merely orchestrates all the busybodies who want to know what everyone else is doing, and how to control and exert power over them.
George HW Bush was director of the CIA - yes, I forgot that. That is a "real job". Not quite a "real job" as in "common people do that sort of thing", but it is a "real job" in that he performs needed services for other people who actualy "do things". In some cases, the CIA actually does "do things", but that is more rare than the Department of Defense actually "doing things".
Hmmm. You make sense - but, can you give an example of free market in the United States, any time within the past 100 years or so?
Seriously, we have never seen it in our lifetimes. Every single commodity or good that you can possibly purchase has been regulated at multiple points. Nothing you can possibly buy today is actually produced by a "free market". Absolutely nothing.
If you can find something that isn't actually regulated directly, you will find that it is affected by peripheral regulations, such as minimum wage laws. In the case of textiles, cotton remains King. Imagine that. I can't think of any specific laws that regulate cotton - but cotton is protected by seemingly unrelated regulations that outlaw hemp products in this country. You might say "Big deal!" But, hemp products outlast similar cotton products, usually by 7 times. Hemp products actually make the soil they are grown from more fertile, as opposed to cotton, which depletes the nutrients in the soil rapidly.
Go ahead - look around, and find ANYTHING on the US market which is truly subject to "free trade".
We can't possibly prove or disprove the idea that the free market is self regulating, because we've never put it to the test.
Define "real job". I can't think of any recent Presidents who have had a "real job". The last one would probably have been Carter, who actually "worked" for Admiral Zumwalt, and helped to make the nuclear powered Navy what it is today. Please don't point at Reagan - acting isn't a "real job". Maybe Ford - I don't know enough about him to say for sure, and I'm to lazy to google his biography. And, whatever you do, DO NOT point at the junior Bush. All that fool ever did was to bankrupt companies that his father helped to set up for him. Bush Senior? Again, maybe. He was born into money, so he never worked the kind of work that "normal" people do. He didn't dig ditches, or wash dishes to get through college.
Go on, I challenge you to name any presidents to have actually worked their way from the bottome, where most of us live, up to the top. Kennedy might qualify, but his daddy was a criminal with lots of money. That's real qualification, huh?
I would, yes. And, I might even sound convincing in the effort, if I had experience with Mac. The only thing that I am going to sound convincing with, is Linux.;^)
Oh, please. If Apple had 90+ % of the market, then your statement might make sense. The fact is, they don't, and they aren't likely to.
I really can't see that the requirement is all that restrictive. How many real programmers are unable to program in one of the three languages? Ahhh - ah - ahhh! I said "real programmers", not some Java hacker, or Flash hacker, or whatever.
Flash for example - it's a resource hog that runs like a two legged dog even on powerful machines. Who the hell really WANTS it on a portable platform like an iPhone? At best, people will accept it because it is so ubiquitous. No one WANTS it!
Life is just to short to dance with ugly women. Wallflowers are alright though - a lot of them are really great people once you get past their bashfulness.
Coca Cola's custom software? I never heard the full story, but apparently thier sofware was written by a hobbyist and a couple college dweebs over a summer vacation, then tweaked as time went on. I could have heard a false story, but the last time I was in the warehouse, they still had ancient P1 machines sitting around, with that same old software running on it. They wont' upgrade to WinXP machines, because the software won't run on XP. But, with new technology offered by Sun Virtualbox and others, they may very well make images of those old machines, and put the images onto newer computers. The software meets their needs, so, no reason to abandon it!
I can't address those points you make about DB2 and the rest, so I'll shut up here.;^)
Oh. Really. My neighbors are idiots. Well, how about my neighbors, worldwide? Symantec, McCaffee and others make tremendous profits at the expense of the idiots. Windows is ridiculously easy to run? Yes, sure it is. To run, but not to secure and maintain. That's why banks have racked up billions of dollars in losses over the past decade, and that's why individuals have also lost huge sums of money to phishers, scammers, and identity theives.
Now, while you brag that your MS box has run for years without a trip to the shop - remember, you're posting on slashdot. Try coming out of your Mama's basement, and look around. Your neighbors are probably no different from my neighbors. How many of your neighbers even KNOW about Spybot S&D? Go on, take a poll. Yeah, you'll have some brighter neighbors who manage quite well. You also have a bunch of less bright tools who download porn, click on email links and attachments, etc ad nauseum, then run to the computer shop when it takes hours to boot up.
Idiots. They walk among us, and they look JUST LIKE US!! Could it be that they ARE US?
And, no, in the long run, that cost difference is not minute. It adds up to tremendous profits for those corporations, small businesses, and individuals who are in the business of "fixing" computers. Not to mention the profits of criminals who rely on MS vulnerabilities to make their living.
TBH, none of my neighbors are sophisticated enough to maintain a state of the art gaming system.;^) Most of the people I know just keep spending and spending on recovery fees, and buying new software that is supposed to do this or that, but usually fails to meet expectation.
One guy took a fairly new, fairly powerful computer back to the shop three times for virus infections, then gave up and bought a new machine for about $2100. Just a few months later, he complained that the machine was getting slow, like the old one.
I told him repeatedly that I could fix it for him, but he never brought it to me. What can I say? He prefers to spend his money on a tech who "guarantees" his work, but the guarantee is worthless in reality.
The principal will hold. Why pay for both proprietary software and an IT staff, when you can get by with just the IT staff?
Obviously, you don't migrate to OSS overnight, but whether it takes 6 months or 6 years to migrate, it only makes sense. It isn't like *nix lacks database programs, or anything else. Find something that comes close to what you need, have your IT staff modify to suit your needs, and run with it. No more licensing fees, no more forced upgrades, nada.
If Coca Cola can run their own custom software in a distribution center, what's to stop any other company in the world?
I dunno. Let's just say that our views are quite different. As a home user without any certifications, I manage to keep my Linux boxes running just fine using free support, available online, and in the documentation. Microsoft boxes cost a good deal of money to keep running. I hear from friends and neighbors and coworkers all the time, that they've taken their machine back to the shop for this, or for that, and forked over another hundred dollars or more.
Add up the costs of the OS license, a decent AV, all the software they purchase, and those unending trips to a shop to have viruses removed, recover lost data, upgrade this or that, and sometimes to reinstall the operating system. And, don't forget that with each trip, the tech/salesrep invariably tries to sell a newer, more powerful computer.
Cost. I'll take the free stuff every time.
So, a kernel update breaks something that I rely on. Big deal, I can roll back the kernel. A driver update breaks something else, I just roll back to the old driver. Yeah, I sometimes use the CLI. I'm not proficient with it, but a quick Google always finds help with whatever. The biggest thing about googling for help, is to use the advanced search, and find RECENT articles and posts about my problem. Trying to use a solution for a similar problem that occured in 2001 is unlikely to work today.
In short, I can build a nice computer for about a thousand bucks, and run everything I've ever needed or wanted to run for absolutely nothing. My neighbors buy computers for $1500 and up to as much as $3000, and they keep forking out money.
To me, it makes no sense.
While Enterprise' costs are multiplied exponentially, their savings are exponentially greater when they use open source. A large organization might spend ten million dollars on Microsoft license - while full Linux support is available for mere hundreds of thousands. And, as time goes by after upgrading to Linus, support becomes less and less of an issue - the enterprise might get away with purchasing minimal support packages "just in case" something serious breaks.
Whatever - I'll be a Linux and Open Source supporter forever. Unless, of course, something markedly better than Linux comes along. Unlikely, but possible. I keep hoping though!
That's never happened to me on Slashdot - but it has happened elsewhere. I like to discuss or argue politics. Voicing a non-liberal opinion gets you banned on many liberal news sites.
Funny - the manics over at Fox just call me nasty things, tell me I'm a moron, then go their way. I've never been banned on a conservative, or even a neocon news site. Damn, I hate fascists.
Anyway - don't feel lonely. Stupid shit happens to other people too.
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Forrest Mims is not meant for women, children, women who are nursing, or for women who may become pregnant. Mims should also be avoided by people with histories of heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, or short tempers.
Oooops. Sorry guys. The wife has that idiot boob tube playing, and I thought I was taking dictation for some reason. ;^)
Hmmm. How would YOU train soldiers? There were no segways, no robots back in my day. Or, more accurately, the few robots we had were capable of very limited functions, like loading a missile onto a missile launcher.
As already mentioned, blowing holes in paper targets is exactly that, a hole in a paper. Papers don't move, except a few rather complicated setups which move the target in one linear direction, or the reverse. Those robots can move in at least two dimensions, at varying speeds, and probably in 3 dimensions if ramps are built for them. Pretty good training, really. And as Gravatron has already pointed out, shooting at people can ruin people's days.
Let's just hope they aren't paying the price of an Apache helicopter for these robots.
Not odd at all, if you stop and think about human nature for a moment. What he's saying is, "My drugs aren't as bad as the drugs that I've rejected." Yes, I know that alcohol and tobacco kill more people than several other drugs combined. All the same, I like a little alcohol now and then, and I'm addicted to tobacco. Caffeine isn't even listed, but I'm also addicted to that.
I question the position they've given cocaine, though. They are certainly lumping white powder cocaine together with the rocks that people smoke. If they separated nose candy from rock candy, where would each appear on those charts?
From experience in the Navy, I can verify the fiscal thing. Each quarter, we would "purchase" things out of our own storerooms, so that the books balanced within a couple of dollars. Across the board, we did this. The galley (or kitchen, for you landlubbers), office supplies, paint, you name it. The money had to be spent, or lost. At the end of the fiscal year, same thing. Spend right down to the very last dollar, never turn money in, or the next year your budget would shrink.
Damn shame that things work that way. It's an incentive to waste.
You are right - at least 70% right. But, it is within Obama's authority and within Obama's power to just TELL everyone that the negotiations are going to be transparent. Obama has to have made a personal decision, or at least approved of someone else's decision, to keep things "Top Sikrit". Just one sentence is all it takes to blow ACTA out of the water.
Well - if any of those governments involved were really superior to our own pitiful government, they would refuse to participate in secret talks concering a secret treaty. They're all dirtbags, from Oz to Europe to America. Who else is involved? Surely there are Asian countries in on it. But, I kind of expect most Asian governments to be secretive. Dirtbags all, willing to sell their people's rights for a few campaign dollars.
Add together poor color vision, and near sightedness. Plus, being crossed eyed, but that was corrected as a very young age. Today, it's astygmatism and slowly developing cataracts.
I got used to the idea that I can't see things just like other people see them ages ago. The 3-D glasses do nothing for me, and the movies just seem so much nonsense.
Ehhh. If anything, it's good to hear that I'm not all alone.
Now, maybe if they would start working on holographic movies, they could sell more to people like me.
Then again, maybe not. I mean, most of the movies are ass hat stupid to start with, they wouldn't be improved just because I can see them better. Watch that next action thriller with a critical eye. The good guy never takes cover, standing in plain sight of everyone with a weapon, and no one can hit him. The bad guys actually make good use of cover, but the bad guy picks them off by the dozen, using two machine guns ambidextrously. Ass hat stupid, I say.
Uhhh, you are mistaken. Black, white, and brown people cross the border every single day with tons and tons of stuff agricultural goods. Every single day. I've been on the border, and the border patrol doesn't look any harder at one type of person than he looks at another. They MAYBE look a little harder at young people than older people, but that could just be my own perception. "Younger people" meaning mid teens to maybe 35. Old goats like myself aren't likely to set off any alarms, unless we're acting stupid.
I'd invite you to try it sometime, but if you are a nervous paranoid sort of person, you WILL be stopped and questioned, LMAO
Illegal drug dealers have to cope with all sorts of regulations that outlaw the stuff. The drug runners are either ignorant dupes, or if they are aware of what they are doing, they demand huge payments for the risks they take.
Remove the regulations which dictate that transporting a ton of weed into the US means years of prison time, those transportation costs will drop to about the same as transporting a ton of watermelon. Next to nothing. Your prices will plummet.
So, you see, it isn't exactly "free market" at all.
Go cut a ton of bermuda grass and drive across the border. You may be stopped by an agricultural inspector, who will search for signs of fire and infestation, or similar problems. But, he won't give a rat's ass about your bermuda grass, even if he suspects that you're going to smoke it.
To me, "real jobs" do not include politics and acting. I mean, productive jobs, jobs that support productive jobs, research, service work of some sort, you know, people that "do things". At best, a governor merely orchestrates all the busybodies who want to know what everyone else is doing, and how to control and exert power over them.
George HW Bush was director of the CIA - yes, I forgot that. That is a "real job". Not quite a "real job" as in "common people do that sort of thing", but it is a "real job" in that he performs needed services for other people who actualy "do things". In some cases, the CIA actually does "do things", but that is more rare than the Department of Defense actually "doing things".
Hmmm. You make sense - but, can you give an example of free market in the United States, any time within the past 100 years or so?
Seriously, we have never seen it in our lifetimes. Every single commodity or good that you can possibly purchase has been regulated at multiple points. Nothing you can possibly buy today is actually produced by a "free market". Absolutely nothing.
If you can find something that isn't actually regulated directly, you will find that it is affected by peripheral regulations, such as minimum wage laws. In the case of textiles, cotton remains King. Imagine that. I can't think of any specific laws that regulate cotton - but cotton is protected by seemingly unrelated regulations that outlaw hemp products in this country. You might say "Big deal!" But, hemp products outlast similar cotton products, usually by 7 times. Hemp products actually make the soil they are grown from more fertile, as opposed to cotton, which depletes the nutrients in the soil rapidly.
Go ahead - look around, and find ANYTHING on the US market which is truly subject to "free trade".
We can't possibly prove or disprove the idea that the free market is self regulating, because we've never put it to the test.
Define "real job". I can't think of any recent Presidents who have had a "real job". The last one would probably have been Carter, who actually "worked" for Admiral Zumwalt, and helped to make the nuclear powered Navy what it is today. Please don't point at Reagan - acting isn't a "real job". Maybe Ford - I don't know enough about him to say for sure, and I'm to lazy to google his biography. And, whatever you do, DO NOT point at the junior Bush. All that fool ever did was to bankrupt companies that his father helped to set up for him. Bush Senior? Again, maybe. He was born into money, so he never worked the kind of work that "normal" people do. He didn't dig ditches, or wash dishes to get through college.
Go on, I challenge you to name any presidents to have actually worked their way from the bottome, where most of us live, up to the top. Kennedy might qualify, but his daddy was a criminal with lots of money. That's real qualification, huh?
I would, yes. And, I might even sound convincing in the effort, if I had experience with Mac. The only thing that I am going to sound convincing with, is Linux. ;^)
"But hey, it's Steve Jobs, the Big Brother himself, and he knows what's best for us, right?"
No, only YOU know what's best for YOU. Tell me, would it be best for YOU to boycott Apple? If so, do it and move on.
Oh, please. If Apple had 90+ % of the market, then your statement might make sense. The fact is, they don't, and they aren't likely to.
I really can't see that the requirement is all that restrictive. How many real programmers are unable to program in one of the three languages? Ahhh - ah - ahhh! I said "real programmers", not some Java hacker, or Flash hacker, or whatever.
Flash for example - it's a resource hog that runs like a two legged dog even on powerful machines. Who the hell really WANTS it on a portable platform like an iPhone? At best, people will accept it because it is so ubiquitous. No one WANTS it!
Life is just to short to dance with ugly women. Wallflowers are alright though - a lot of them are really great people once you get past their bashfulness.
Coca Cola's custom software? I never heard the full story, but apparently thier sofware was written by a hobbyist and a couple college dweebs over a summer vacation, then tweaked as time went on. I could have heard a false story, but the last time I was in the warehouse, they still had ancient P1 machines sitting around, with that same old software running on it. They wont' upgrade to WinXP machines, because the software won't run on XP. But, with new technology offered by Sun Virtualbox and others, they may very well make images of those old machines, and put the images onto newer computers. The software meets their needs, so, no reason to abandon it!
I can't address those points you make about DB2 and the rest, so I'll shut up here. ;^)
Hey, that's not fair. Not every geek made it into the higher math classes!
Oh. Really. My neighbors are idiots. Well, how about my neighbors, worldwide? Symantec, McCaffee and others make tremendous profits at the expense of the idiots. Windows is ridiculously easy to run? Yes, sure it is. To run, but not to secure and maintain. That's why banks have racked up billions of dollars in losses over the past decade, and that's why individuals have also lost huge sums of money to phishers, scammers, and identity theives.
Now, while you brag that your MS box has run for years without a trip to the shop - remember, you're posting on slashdot. Try coming out of your Mama's basement, and look around. Your neighbors are probably no different from my neighbors. How many of your neighbers even KNOW about Spybot S&D? Go on, take a poll. Yeah, you'll have some brighter neighbors who manage quite well. You also have a bunch of less bright tools who download porn, click on email links and attachments, etc ad nauseum, then run to the computer shop when it takes hours to boot up.
Idiots. They walk among us, and they look JUST LIKE US!! Could it be that they ARE US?
And, no, in the long run, that cost difference is not minute. It adds up to tremendous profits for those corporations, small businesses, and individuals who are in the business of "fixing" computers. Not to mention the profits of criminals who rely on MS vulnerabilities to make their living.
TBH, none of my neighbors are sophisticated enough to maintain a state of the art gaming system. ;^) Most of the people I know just keep spending and spending on recovery fees, and buying new software that is supposed to do this or that, but usually fails to meet expectation.
One guy took a fairly new, fairly powerful computer back to the shop three times for virus infections, then gave up and bought a new machine for about $2100. Just a few months later, he complained that the machine was getting slow, like the old one.
I told him repeatedly that I could fix it for him, but he never brought it to me. What can I say? He prefers to spend his money on a tech who "guarantees" his work, but the guarantee is worthless in reality.
The principal will hold. Why pay for both proprietary software and an IT staff, when you can get by with just the IT staff?
Obviously, you don't migrate to OSS overnight, but whether it takes 6 months or 6 years to migrate, it only makes sense. It isn't like *nix lacks database programs, or anything else. Find something that comes close to what you need, have your IT staff modify to suit your needs, and run with it. No more licensing fees, no more forced upgrades, nada.
If Coca Cola can run their own custom software in a distribution center, what's to stop any other company in the world?
I dunno. Let's just say that our views are quite different. As a home user without any certifications, I manage to keep my Linux boxes running just fine using free support, available online, and in the documentation. Microsoft boxes cost a good deal of money to keep running. I hear from friends and neighbors and coworkers all the time, that they've taken their machine back to the shop for this, or for that, and forked over another hundred dollars or more.
Add up the costs of the OS license, a decent AV, all the software they purchase, and those unending trips to a shop to have viruses removed, recover lost data, upgrade this or that, and sometimes to reinstall the operating system. And, don't forget that with each trip, the tech/salesrep invariably tries to sell a newer, more powerful computer.
Cost. I'll take the free stuff every time.
So, a kernel update breaks something that I rely on. Big deal, I can roll back the kernel. A driver update breaks something else, I just roll back to the old driver. Yeah, I sometimes use the CLI. I'm not proficient with it, but a quick Google always finds help with whatever. The biggest thing about googling for help, is to use the advanced search, and find RECENT articles and posts about my problem. Trying to use a solution for a similar problem that occured in 2001 is unlikely to work today.
In short, I can build a nice computer for about a thousand bucks, and run everything I've ever needed or wanted to run for absolutely nothing. My neighbors buy computers for $1500 and up to as much as $3000, and they keep forking out money.
To me, it makes no sense.
While Enterprise' costs are multiplied exponentially, their savings are exponentially greater when they use open source. A large organization might spend ten million dollars on Microsoft license - while full Linux support is available for mere hundreds of thousands. And, as time goes by after upgrading to Linus, support becomes less and less of an issue - the enterprise might get away with purchasing minimal support packages "just in case" something serious breaks.
Whatever - I'll be a Linux and Open Source supporter forever. Unless, of course, something markedly better than Linux comes along. Unlikely, but possible. I keep hoping though!
But, it's about the only indicator that 80% of the world ever recognizes. Damned shame, ain't it?
That's never happened to me on Slashdot - but it has happened elsewhere. I like to discuss or argue politics. Voicing a non-liberal opinion gets you banned on many liberal news sites.
Funny - the manics over at Fox just call me nasty things, tell me I'm a moron, then go their way. I've never been banned on a conservative, or even a neocon news site. Damn, I hate fascists.
Anyway - don't feel lonely. Stupid shit happens to other people too.
I think that I'd start with a Ouija board. Let me find that manual - 'Programming with Ouija' - it's around here somewhere!