I live in Manchester, NH and I do see these on the sidewalks from time to time. Pretty interesting, but the price tag alone is enough to rule one out of my future.
I just emailed the director of the FEC and asked where I can send my bill for receiving these ads and if the FEC or the political parties will reimburse me. I don't see myself getting an answer.
If anyone is interested, you can send HP's CEO; Carly Fiorina an e-mail from the "contact us" page on HP's website. Click on "Contact HP"; scroll down to where it says e-mail HP and click on the box below where it states "I have a question that is not product or service related" At the bottom of the list click on Carly Fiorina's name. Send the CEO a message with your concerns.
Solid state lasers aren't all that fragile. Nd:Yag lasers that emit in the 1064nm range are the standard in most military applications although there is a big shift to the 1540nm "eyesafe" range. The US military is also looking into dual wavelength lasers that include both eyesafe and non-eyesafe modes. I guess the risk of eye damage on this proposed 100MW laser would depend on the wavelength being used. Although a hit by a laser of this power would be able to burn the skin. To me, it sounds like a really cool engineering program, but I don't think it's that practical right now.
I spent 93 through 2000 working in Saudi and when we were finally able to get on the net, it quickly became a game with most of us to see just what sites we could get into. We also found that the blocking just wasn't consistant. One day we weren't able to get into a site and then the next week, we could get into just about any site that we wanted to. One thing that did surprise me was that Amnesty International's site was never blocked.
Having listened to the Who since the early 70's; John Entwistle is one of the reasons I learned to play bass. I guess I'll spend the next few days lisening to some Who cds and more importantly listening to the only Entwistle solo album I have; "Too Late the Hero". I guess to me, the title seems somewhat appropriate.
I'm impressed with the using a laser to hold a conversation, but the ability to stabilise and aim a laser from a helicopter is pretty commonplace. How do you think that the sighting and targeting systems on attack helicopters work? The AH-64 Apache has 127 X optics, with that you can target a tank or other object from quite a few miles off and still be relativly safe from counter-attack.
I've got a older 385XD ThinkPad from 96 that's traveled all over the Middle East and Europe in a backpack and the only thing that's gone wrong with it is that it has something loose rolling around in it. I'm assuming it's not metal since it's been that way for about 4 years and it hasn't shorted out........yet.:-)
I was working in Saudi Arabia from 1993 to April of 2001 and all I can say about "The Great Saudi firewall" is that myself and the guys I worked with (as well as a number of Saudis that I knew) made a game out of trying to see how many sites we could get into before we were blocked out by the censors. At times, we found all sorts of sites that we were not able to get into and then lo and behold those sites would be reopened to us. Not an exciting way to surf the net, but it passed the time.
I'm not really sure what the answer to all this is, but historically, whenever a group has made attacks on American targets, if it has been small attacks, ie, the USS Cole, Americans get angry for a very short time then for the most part it's forgotten. However,whenever someone has been able to make the entire country angry as a group, then very bad things happen to the percieved group/nation behind it. Things are going to get real ugly in a very short time.
Actually in this case it's pretty accurate. Even though the M1 series has a 1500 HP gas turbine engine, you have to remember that the M1A2 weighs in around 70 tons. The engine will burn just about anything, but if you run gas or similar fuel, don't run the smoke generator or you will have one hell of a flame coming out the exhaust.
While the article may have mentioned that Yahoo clubs were singled out, blocked web pages in Saudi Arabia are so numerous it defys logic at times. I live and work in Riyadh and it has become somewhat of a pastime among Westerners and some Saudis here to try to find sites that aren't blocked. The filtering software is rather hit or miss and also has the added affect of considerably slowing download speeds.
At this point, even though some Saudi communications experts have even suggested that the goeverment needs to get out of the net censorship business and trust the population to do the right thing. We'll see.
From what I've read so far (and I haven't read all the comments) Everyone seems to be overlooking one basic fact. GPS signals are a service of the US Defense Department and as such are forbidden to offer commercial advertising, ie. if you check out a military website you will notice a absence of advertisments. This is because if there were advertisments it would appear to the average user that the products or services were endorsed by the military. Working for the military in the Middle East, I have access to the DOD television service, AFRTS, there are also no commercial advertisments on it, because it would imply endorsement. The GPS signals would fall into the same situation.
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I don't have anything in that caliber, but 12 gauge slugs are just as effective and almost as much fun.
I live in Manchester, NH and I do see these on the sidewalks from time to time. Pretty interesting, but the price tag alone is enough to rule one out of my future.
I just emailed the director of the FEC and asked where I can send my bill for receiving these ads and if the FEC or the political parties will reimburse me.
I don't see myself getting an answer.
It's just become bi-polar. Sorry, I couldn't resist the extremely bad joke. *sigh*
I wonder what the link is between Eric Raymond and Abbie Hoffman?
You should probably ask my ex-wife.
If anyone is interested, you can send HP's CEO; Carly Fiorina an e-mail from the "contact us" page on HP's website. Click on "Contact HP"; scroll down to where it says e-mail HP and click on the box below where it states "I have a question that is not product or service related" At the bottom of the list click on Carly Fiorina's name. Send the CEO a message with your concerns.
Solid state lasers aren't all that fragile. Nd:Yag lasers that emit in the 1064nm range are the standard in most military applications although there is a big shift to the 1540nm "eyesafe" range. The US military is also looking into dual wavelength lasers that include both eyesafe and non-eyesafe modes. I guess the risk of eye damage on this proposed 100MW laser would depend on the wavelength being used. Although a hit by a laser of this power would be able to burn the skin.
To me, it sounds like a really cool engineering program, but I don't think it's that practical right now.
I spent 93 through 2000 working in Saudi and when we were finally able to get on the net, it quickly became a game with most of us to see just what sites we could get into. We also found that the blocking just wasn't consistant. One day we weren't able to get into a site and then the next week, we could get into just about any site that we wanted to. One thing that did surprise me was that Amnesty International's site was never blocked.
Having listened to the Who since the early 70's; John Entwistle is one of the reasons I learned to play bass. I guess I'll spend the next few days lisening to some Who cds and more importantly listening to the only Entwistle solo album I have; "Too Late the Hero". I guess to me, the title seems somewhat appropriate.
I'm impressed with the using a laser to hold a conversation, but the ability to stabilise and aim a laser from a helicopter is pretty commonplace. How do you think that the sighting and targeting systems on attack helicopters work? The AH-64 Apache has 127 X optics, with that you can target a tank or other object from quite a few miles off and still be relativly safe from counter-attack.
I've got a older 385XD ThinkPad from 96 that's traveled all over the Middle East and Europe in a backpack and the only thing that's gone wrong with it is that it has something loose rolling around in it. I'm assuming it's not metal since it's been that way for about 4 years and it hasn't shorted out........yet. :-)
I was working in Saudi Arabia from 1993 to April of 2001 and all I can say about "The Great Saudi firewall" is that myself and the guys I worked with (as well as a number of Saudis that I knew) made a game out of trying to see how many sites we could get into before we were blocked out by the censors. At times, we found all sorts of sites that we were not able to get into and then lo and behold those sites would be reopened to us. Not an exciting way to surf the net, but it passed the time.
I'm not really sure what the answer to all this is, but historically, whenever a group has made attacks on American targets, if it has been small attacks, ie, the USS Cole, Americans get angry for a very short time then for the most part it's forgotten. However,whenever someone has been able to make the entire country angry as a group, then very bad things happen to the percieved group/nation behind it. Things are going to get real ugly in a very short time.
Actually in this case it's pretty accurate. Even though the M1 series has a 1500 HP gas turbine engine, you have to remember that the M1A2 weighs in around 70 tons. The engine will burn just about anything, but if you run gas or similar fuel, don't run the smoke generator or you will have one hell of a flame coming out the exhaust.
While the article may have mentioned that Yahoo clubs were singled out, blocked web pages in Saudi Arabia are so numerous it defys logic at times. I live and work in Riyadh and it has become somewhat of a pastime among Westerners and some Saudis here to try to find sites that aren't blocked. The filtering software is rather hit or miss and also has the added affect of considerably slowing download speeds. At this point, even though some Saudi communications experts have even suggested that the goeverment needs to get out of the net censorship business and trust the population to do the right thing. We'll see.
From what I've read so far (and I haven't read all the comments) Everyone seems to be overlooking one basic fact. GPS signals are a service of the US Defense Department and as such are forbidden to offer commercial advertising, ie. if you check out a military website you will notice a absence of advertisments. This is because if there were advertisments it would appear to the average user that the products or services were endorsed by the military. Working for the military in the Middle East, I have access to the DOD television service, AFRTS, there are also no commercial advertisments on it, because it would imply endorsement. The GPS signals would fall into the same situation.