Nah, he was just trying to write a corallary to Godwin's Law without writing all the parallel corallarys to Godwin's Law.
In that sense he was trying not to associate relgion with anything. He was objecting to such association.
He was, perhaps, further confused by the entirely modern shcool trying to pretend that philosophy has secular underpinnings. It certainly is true that it has nonchristian underpinnings, and to those who first formulated the idea that philosophy was secular nonchristian and secular looked like the same thing.
I did not mean to imply that philosophy has been without merit within the span of human existence. When introduced by "calling" I am more often introduced as a philosopher, rather than as a physicist (musician sneaks in there a lot too).
I generally deny the claim though.
Certainly the philosophies spawned science (which is why science degrees are still degrees in philosophy), but there is a descernable dividing line between the sciences and the philosophies.
That dividing line can be summed up in one word:
"Proof."
Or disproof, as the case may be.
As a Zen Buddhist I "know" that the world we percieve with our senses is one of illusion, that there is an underlying physics which may often be very different than what we think the world is like. As a physicist I can demonstrate this. What I "know" must give way to what I can demonstrate.
One will find the "missing link" in Descarte, widely held to be the founder of modern scientific thought, but whose arguments were still largely rooted in theology. To one not raised within the Judeo/Christian/Islamic tradition he can be rather tough sledding on this account.
There are certain fields beyond the pale of science, where philosophy still rules the roost, where only it has "answers", but those answers cannot be proven or disproven. They are held by belief and "faith."
Thus the answers philosophy provides are the basis for interminable argument without resolve, and often bloodshed.
Science cannot resolve the question, "What is the best way for us to live?," although much to its disgrace it often pretends that it can (it can certainly quantify and predict certain aspects of how we live, which is a useful thing to do, but it cannot scientifically define "best").
I would suggest that there is, philosophically speaking, no particular reason why we should exist at all, and the question of such isn't a scientific one. We do, or do not, exist.
Is happiness, perhaps, a measure of how we should live? The extreme behaviorists amoung us would deny that hapiness even exits. Yet I know that hapiness is at least a major factor to be considered. Philosophically. But I can't for the life of me tell you what hapiness is. Nor can I convince you of the Satori state, because I cannot demonstrate it, you must experience it yourself. ..
And even then it might be illusion.
It is meta-physical.
Thus it is argued about ad infinitum. Suzuki drives me to distraction sometimes. He should have talked less and meditated more, but he came from the academic philosophical tradition of Buddhism.
Thus arguing the unprovable, while it has certain validity, and can even be instructional in one's youth, in the end amounts to little more than masturbation of the soul. It makes you feel good, but leads nowhere except feeling good (which in itself, granted, might, philosophically speaking, have some validity).
Bear in mind also that most of, if not all, the really deep questions (including those engendered by accelerating technolgy and industry) where argued nigh unto death many, many thousands of years ago. At some point it becomes like watching the same episode of Gilligan's Island over, and over and over again.
It kinda ceases to fascinate after awhile. You've heard it all before. You suddenly realize that it's silly and trivial. Then you find out your parents had heard it all before long before you were born (this is always a revelation to youth, whose timeline innately begins with their own selfconciousness, thus the tendency to try to teach grandma how to suck eggs, and ultimately to Twain's observation about how much his father had learned in just a few short years).
So argue philosophy while you are young. It's a necessary part of the development process, like learning not to piss on your hands, and don't forget what you learned by it as most people seem to do.
But there really isn't any point in trying to teach pigs to sing. It wastes your time and only annoys the pigs.
I have little time for philosophy: the endless soul-searching and argument over subtle nuance seems pretty meaningless - you can't root an argument in reality when you're debating the existence of reality!
In other words, philosophy essentially is religious argument.
Thus invoking religion in philosophical argument is like introducing Hitler when the subject is Nazis.
In my case the root cause was rather more obvious though. Two direct hits by lightning on my building, plus one on the powerline about a dozen yards from the feed to the building. I happened to looking out the window at the time, doing a bit of Thor appreciation, and got to watch the strike on the power line.
Lost $2500 of computer equipment no more than two months old, about a grand worth of stereo equipment and had to put out an electrical fire inside an electircal fixture (old building that still had some wiring with cloth insulation).
Not to mention the chimmney and roof of the building, but I was renting so that wasn't directly my problem, although the rain coming through the remains of the roof certainly was.
Next time I rent the top floor of the tallest building in the neighborhood I'll make sure the owners know about lightning rods. It's amazing sometimes the simple technologies that people are ignorant of.
Well, the article does say "propriatary" process, although if this process is much different than smearing it with epoxy and vacuuming bagging it I'd be surprised.
Not to mention the fact that the blue plexi window in the side of a wooden case looks pretty daftly incongruous. The aluminum trim on the front panel smacks vaguely of Oldsmobile dashboard as well. That would be your grandfather's Oldsmobile.
They would have been better off putting a few tasteful strips of veneer on the aluminum, rather than the other way around.
Definately a, ummmmm, case, of marketing to those with more money than taste.
KFG
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On the other hand, wood veneer is also pasted over particle board to make the very finest hand made cabinetry that still looks like solid wood.
Particle board is a composite material, just like carbon fiber composite, only using wood fibers instead of carbon. Wood fibers, in certain uses are superior to other types of fibers.
For making furniture it has the advantage over solid wood of being uniform in dimension, extremely stable in varying temperature and humidity ranges, denser and harder. Really just the stuff for cabinets. It's chief disadvantage is that it's heavy. Goes with the dense. Thus it's best for installed furniture. You wouldn't want to carry it to a LAN party.It's also hell on blades. Goes with the composite material.
Many of the finest cabinet makers, when making articles for their own use or for a few select customers who they know can appreciate it, work in veneered particle board, because it's the best material for the job.
Mind you, there is cheap, crappy particle board, and more expensive high quality particle board.
. ..in my mind, nature and technology just don't mix.
Where do you suppose silicon comes from? I like computers because they match the hand hewn exertior walls of my home.
My computer runs on electricty. Without electrons nature would be pretty much hosed. Although I have found out from experience that's it's best not to allow the naturally occuring electrons in the atmosphere to mingle with those in your computer. Lets all the magic smoke out and stuff.
Veneer itself is the result of technology, you'd be pretty hard pressed to make any without some, not to mention the technology of a wood-aluminum composite material, and composites are all the technological rage these days.
Got blue jeans? Nothing more than plant fibers twisted together ( depending on the brand there may also be some copper rivets. That's the only thing that seperates them from being neolithic. Copper is a natural material). You should try making a pair from scratch though. You'll find there's lots of technolgy involved.
Some people like to listen to good music, but don't have time to search it out.
Since music is a matter of taste, I'm afraid I have no solution for this problem unless you can find a psychic personal shopper.
I kinda take it for granted that I'm on my own in finding the sort of music I like to listen to, the clothes I like to wear, the books I like to read, the pictures I like to look at, etc.
In those instances where people have actually been willing to do this for me they invariably get it all wrong.
I'll make you a gift of some CD recommendations that don't contain a single bad cut:
The Allman Brother's Band: Eat a Peach John Hartford: Aereo-Plain Silly Wizard: Live Wizardry Yo-Yo Ma: J.S. Bach- The six unaccompanied cello suites Johnny Winter: Nothin' But the Blues Nancy Griffith: Flyer Lyle Lovett: Joshua Judges Ruth Emmylou Harris: Bluebird John Prine: Bruised Orange Tom Waits: Raindogs It's a Beautiful Day (self titled) The Manhatten Transfer: Brazil Miles Davis: Sketches of Spain Tibetan Buddhism: Tantras of Gyuto
There, thats about 15 hours of solid music. That ought to keep someone with no time to find good music happy for a while, seeing as how little time they have to devote to music.
And I can't guaruntee you'll like a single cut. If my taste doen't match yours, well, I'm afraid you're on your own.
People who live in a Metropolis (which I avoid like the plague) call the sort of area where I live "The Country." Koch called where I actually live "The land of pickup trucks and gingham dresses."
It's a good part of the reason he never got to be governor.
We don't shoot farmyard animals thinking they're deer. We have to stop traffic to get the moose off the highway. Now and then I have to chase the racoons out of the kitchen if I've left the door open for the cat. The 'coons like to come in and steal the catfood.
I wouldn't call this the country myself. I call it a city, but it's true that we're surrounded by enough country that we have racoons, skunks possum and deer as vistors in the city, and I've got a yard full of woodchucks right now, as well as large sized rodents that look kind of like beavers without the big tail.
Nonetheless we have some decent radio stations. WRPI is great, and run by geeks. There are some dozens of others that come in pretty well. There's also this thing called AM. With good bounce I can pick up Wheeling West Viginia from here.
Then there's the library. They let you try before you buy. You can keep whole CDs for days at a time. And who knows, depending on your ethical stance, some of those CDs might remain as MP3s on your HD after you return them.
Spin the radio dial. It goes all the way from one end to the other. Only some of those stations are owned by Clear Channel. If you are lucky enough to be within range of a good college station they play a wide variety of music and often play whole albums (gives the DJ lots of time to read/get stoned).
If you only shop at the mall you'll think the only stuff you can own is the stuff they have at the Gap and Lechters, no matter where in the world you go.
Get out. Poke around. There's lots of indie/alternative stuff out there if you don't just pay attention to the obvious stuff that gets shoved down your throat.
Clear Channel and Sony don't own everything. ..yet.
Idiotic and wholly unintentional double negative in the first sentence giving the whole thing the reverse of its intended meaning. That's what happens when I post out of the corner of one eye when my attention is really on the book I'm reading.
"Four Wings and A Prayer." Nice little popular work on Monarch butterfly migration. Written by a woman who lives just up the road from me apiece. I give it a hearty recommendation for anyone who might be vaguely interested in such things.
No, the only way it could ever work is if no Cisco employee ( and by extension exemployee ) didn't know it, and thus couldn't exploit it without divulging it. The idea that Cisco employees are somehow "safe" is absurd.
This is like saying that your vault is secure just so long as only employees of the company that made it know your combination.
Like with your car.
What, you didn't know about that?
You can have a locksmith fix that for you if you want, but then you have to trust your locksmith. You're only as secure as what you can do yourself.
The difference here though, is that the Ford employee has to make the effort to physically go to your car to use the knowledge.
A Cisco employee could crack your router while sitting at home in his underwear.
But then distilled sake wouldn't be sake. It would be rice whiskey.
Distilled alcohols, such as whiskey and cognac (one from grain, the other from fruit) are just alcohol, water, and a miniscule amount of odd molecules that give it its particular flavor. Alcohol doesn't go bad. It's a preservative.
Beer goes off because it still contains an awful lot of the food items it was made from. That's why it requires high alcohol content to preserve it.
As it happens that's the reason the only beer I drink is sake. Many grains are poisonous to me. Rice isn't. Many US states have an alcohol content limit on beer. I think it's 7% where I am, and in some states it's half that.
So I actually benefit from the beer/wine confusion attached to sake. Sake is a high alcohol content beer. 10 to 20% ( and it still goes off in a couple of months. It's a very light and simple beer. Rice, water, mold and yeast. That's it.), but it's regulated as wine, so it doesn't have to be turned into water to sell it. And since sake is such a simple beer water is pretty much what 7% sake would be. Like throwing a shot of whiskey into a Perrier bottle. Pointless.
Really, to hell with depicting the Puppeteers, I'm still recovering from their depicting Sir Richard Francis Burton as an American astronaut. One of the reasons I'll always have a soft spot for the River World is because it introduced me to Sir Richard, who was absolutely the perfect character to focus on in that setting.
Oh well, at least they didn't have him capture the Enigma machine or something. (They didn't, did they? I couldn't watch it all the way through).
One of the nice things about NiCads is that you can get them to discharge very quickly, making R/C racers stuck with the bloody things.
These batteries will absolutely revolutionize R/C car racing, virtually obsoleting fuel cars, except for those that get off on the sound.
Extrapolate.
Yes, that causes issues. I once saw a guy cut a screwdriver nearly in half when he acidentally shorted his pack (on the other hand being able to make an emergency spot weld from a battery pack could be held to be a virtue in some situations).
And I've seen battery packs that were pushed so hard that their solder connections melted.
But racing is like that, and there are other applications where a high discharge rate is the primary virtue being looked for.
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Nah, he was just trying to write a corallary to Godwin's Law without writing all the parallel corallarys to Godwin's Law.
In that sense he was trying not to associate relgion with anything. He was objecting to such association.
He was, perhaps, further confused by the entirely modern shcool trying to pretend that philosophy has secular underpinnings. It certainly is true that it has nonchristian underpinnings, and to those who first formulated the idea that philosophy was secular nonchristian and secular looked like the same thing.
But Christianity != Religion.
Philosophy is meta-religion.
KFG
I did not mean to imply that philosophy has been without merit within the span of human existence. When introduced by "calling" I am more often introduced as a philosopher, rather than as a physicist (musician sneaks in there a lot too).
.
I generally deny the claim though.
Certainly the philosophies spawned science (which is why science degrees are still degrees in philosophy), but there is a descernable dividing line between the sciences and the philosophies.
That dividing line can be summed up in one word:
"Proof."
Or disproof, as the case may be.
As a Zen Buddhist I "know" that the world we percieve with our senses is one of illusion, that there is an underlying physics which may often be very different than what we think the world is like. As a physicist I can demonstrate this. What I "know" must give way to what I can demonstrate.
One will find the "missing link" in Descarte, widely held to be the founder of modern scientific thought, but whose arguments were still largely rooted in theology. To one not raised within the Judeo/Christian/Islamic tradition he can be rather tough sledding on this account.
There are certain fields beyond the pale of science, where philosophy still rules the roost, where only it has "answers", but those answers cannot be proven or disproven. They are held by belief and "faith."
Thus the answers philosophy provides are the basis for interminable argument without resolve, and often bloodshed.
Science cannot resolve the question, "What is the best way for us to live?," although much to its disgrace it often pretends that it can (it can certainly quantify and predict certain aspects of how we live, which is a useful thing to do, but it cannot scientifically define "best").
I would suggest that there is, philosophically speaking, no particular reason why we should exist at all, and the question of such isn't a scientific one. We do, or do not, exist.
Is happiness, perhaps, a measure of how we should live? The extreme behaviorists amoung us would deny that hapiness even exits. Yet I know that hapiness is at least a major factor to be considered. Philosophically. But I can't for the life of me tell you what hapiness is. Nor can I convince you of the Satori state, because I cannot demonstrate it, you must experience it yourself. .
And even then it might be illusion.
It is meta-physical.
Thus it is argued about ad infinitum. Suzuki drives me to distraction sometimes. He should have talked less and meditated more, but he came from the academic philosophical tradition of Buddhism.
Thus arguing the unprovable, while it has certain validity, and can even be instructional in one's youth, in the end amounts to little more than masturbation of the soul. It makes you feel good, but leads nowhere except feeling good (which in itself, granted, might, philosophically speaking, have some validity).
Bear in mind also that most of, if not all, the really deep questions (including those engendered by accelerating technolgy and industry) where argued nigh unto death many, many thousands of years ago. At some point it becomes like watching the same episode of Gilligan's Island over, and over and over again.
It kinda ceases to fascinate after awhile. You've heard it all before. You suddenly realize that it's silly and trivial. Then you find out your parents had heard it all before long before you were born (this is always a revelation to youth, whose timeline innately begins with their own selfconciousness, thus the tendency to try to teach grandma how to suck eggs, and ultimately to Twain's observation about how much his father had learned in just a few short years).
So argue philosophy while you are young. It's a necessary part of the development process, like learning not to piss on your hands, and don't forget what you learned by it as most people seem to do.
But there really isn't any point in trying to teach pigs to sing. It wastes your time and only annoys the pigs.
KFG
I have little time for philosophy: the endless soul-searching and argument over subtle nuance seems pretty meaningless - you can't root an argument in reality when you're debating the existence of reality!
In other words, philosophy essentially is religious argument.
Thus invoking religion in philosophical argument is like introducing Hitler when the subject is Nazis.
KFG
Fascinating! I've bookmarked that page.
In my case the root cause was rather more obvious though. Two direct hits by lightning on my building, plus one on the powerline about a dozen yards from the feed to the building. I happened to looking out the window at the time, doing a bit of Thor appreciation, and got to watch the strike on the power line.
Lost $2500 of computer equipment no more than two months old, about a grand worth of stereo equipment and had to put out an electrical fire inside an electircal fixture (old building that still had some wiring with cloth insulation).
Not to mention the chimmney and roof of the building, but I was renting so that wasn't directly my problem, although the rain coming through the remains of the roof certainly was.
Next time I rent the top floor of the tallest building in the neighborhood I'll make sure the owners know about lightning rods. It's amazing sometimes the simple technologies that people are ignorant of.
KFG
take from the poor give to the .. uuhmm.no. thats another story..
.
Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore, riding through the land. .
"Blimey! This redistribution of software is tricker than I thought"
KFG
No, the muskrats are down by the river. I like muskrats too. They're actually rather pleasant animals.
I was speaking of gophers/groundhogs/woodchucks. It was a joke, since around here country rednecks are often called woodchucks.
See, "my yard is filled with woodchucks, and a large rodent that looks like a beaver.
KFG
Well, the article does say "propriatary" process, although if this process is much different than smearing it with epoxy and vacuuming bagging it I'd be surprised.
KFG
Not to mention the fact that the blue plexi window in the side of a wooden case looks pretty daftly incongruous. The aluminum trim on the front panel smacks vaguely of Oldsmobile dashboard as well. That would be your grandfather's Oldsmobile.
They would have been better off putting a few tasteful strips of veneer on the aluminum, rather than the other way around.
Definately a, ummmmm, case, of marketing to those with more money than taste.
KFG
On the other hand, wood veneer is also pasted over particle board to make the very finest hand made cabinetry that still looks like solid wood.
Particle board is a composite material, just like carbon fiber composite, only using wood fibers instead of carbon. Wood fibers, in certain uses are superior to other types of fibers.
For making furniture it has the advantage over solid wood of being uniform in dimension, extremely stable in varying temperature and humidity ranges, denser and harder. Really just the stuff for cabinets. It's chief disadvantage is that it's heavy. Goes with the dense. Thus it's best for installed furniture. You wouldn't want to carry it to a LAN party.It's also hell on blades. Goes with the composite material.
Many of the finest cabinet makers, when making articles for their own use or for a few select customers who they know can appreciate it, work in veneered particle board, because it's the best material for the job.
Mind you, there is cheap, crappy particle board, and more expensive high quality particle board.
Just as in everything else.
KFG
. . .in my mind, nature and technology just don't mix.
Where do you suppose silicon comes from? I like computers because they match the hand hewn exertior walls of my home.
My computer runs on electricty. Without electrons nature would be pretty much hosed. Although I have found out from experience that's it's best not to allow the naturally occuring electrons in the atmosphere to mingle with those in your computer. Lets all the magic smoke out and stuff.
Veneer itself is the result of technology, you'd be pretty hard pressed to make any without some, not to mention the technology of a wood-aluminum composite material, and composites are all the technological rage these days.
Got blue jeans? Nothing more than plant fibers twisted together ( depending on the brand there may also be some copper rivets. That's the only thing that seperates them from being neolithic. Copper is a natural material). You should try making a pair from scratch though. You'll find there's lots of technolgy involved.
Maybe your idea of nature needs reconsideration?
KFG
Some people like to listen to good music, but don't have time to search it out.
Since music is a matter of taste, I'm afraid I have no solution for this problem unless you can find a psychic personal shopper.
I kinda take it for granted that I'm on my own in finding the sort of music I like to listen to, the clothes I like to wear, the books I like to read, the pictures I like to look at, etc.
In those instances where people have actually been willing to do this for me they invariably get it all wrong.
I'll make you a gift of some CD recommendations that don't contain a single bad cut:
The Allman Brother's Band: Eat a Peach
John Hartford: Aereo-Plain
Silly Wizard: Live Wizardry
Yo-Yo Ma: J.S. Bach- The six unaccompanied cello suites
Johnny Winter: Nothin' But the Blues
Nancy Griffith: Flyer
Lyle Lovett: Joshua Judges Ruth
Emmylou Harris: Bluebird
John Prine: Bruised Orange
Tom Waits: Raindogs
It's a Beautiful Day (self titled)
The Manhatten Transfer: Brazil
Miles Davis: Sketches of Spain
Tibetan Buddhism: Tantras of Gyuto
There, thats about 15 hours of solid music. That ought to keep someone with no time to find good music happy for a while, seeing as how little time they have to devote to music.
And I can't guaruntee you'll like a single cut. If my taste doen't match yours, well, I'm afraid you're on your own.
KFG
People who live in a Metropolis (which I avoid like the plague) call the sort of area where I live "The Country." Koch called where I actually live "The land of pickup trucks and gingham dresses."
It's a good part of the reason he never got to be governor.
We don't shoot farmyard animals thinking they're deer. We have to stop traffic to get the moose off the highway. Now and then I have to chase the racoons out of the kitchen if I've left the door open for the cat. The 'coons like to come in and steal the catfood.
I wouldn't call this the country myself. I call it a city, but it's true that we're surrounded by enough country that we have racoons, skunks possum and deer as vistors in the city, and I've got a yard full of woodchucks right now, as well as large sized rodents that look kind of like beavers without the big tail.
Nonetheless we have some decent radio stations. WRPI is great, and run by geeks. There are some dozens of others that come in pretty well. There's also this thing called AM. With good bounce I can pick up Wheeling West Viginia from here.
Then there's the library. They let you try before you buy. You can keep whole CDs for days at a time. And who knows, depending on your ethical stance, some of those CDs might remain as MP3s on your HD after you return them.
KFG
Spin the radio dial. It goes all the way from one end to the other. Only some of those stations are owned by Clear Channel. If you are lucky enough to be within range of a good college station they play a wide variety of music and often play whole albums (gives the DJ lots of time to read/get stoned).
.yet.
If you only shop at the mall you'll think the only stuff you can own is the stuff they have at the Gap and Lechters, no matter where in the world you go.
Get out. Poke around. There's lots of indie/alternative stuff out there if you don't just pay attention to the obvious stuff that gets shoved down your throat.
Clear Channel and Sony don't own everything. .
KFG
Idiotic and wholly unintentional double negative in the first sentence giving the whole thing the reverse of its intended meaning. That's what happens when I post out of the corner of one eye when my attention is really on the book I'm reading.
"Four Wings and A Prayer." Nice little popular work on Monarch butterfly migration. Written by a woman who lives just up the road from me apiece. I give it a hearty recommendation for anyone who might be vaguely interested in such things.
KFG
No, the only way it could ever work is if no Cisco employee ( and by extension exemployee ) didn't know it, and thus couldn't exploit it without divulging it. The idea that Cisco employees are somehow "safe" is absurd.
This is like saying that your vault is secure just so long as only employees of the company that made it know your combination.
Like with your car.
What, you didn't know about that?
You can have a locksmith fix that for you if you want, but then you have to trust your locksmith. You're only as secure as what you can do yourself.
The difference here though, is that the Ford employee has to make the effort to physically go to your car to use the knowledge.
A Cisco employee could crack your router while sitting at home in his underwear.
It probably isn't even clean.
KFG
As has already been noted the taxing rules are public information, they are published. That's how and why people are expected to abide by them.
You obviously havn't tried to read them.
Give it a go.
Good luck.
Oh, and wear a truss.
KFG
I'm not really sure I want to see a BSOD on a supermodel's box.
KFG
Anyone who can install anything on a live badger and live to tell about it has my admiration.
That's why I always follow this procedure:
1: Kill badger
2: Procede as per dead badger
3: ???
KFG
But then distilled sake wouldn't be sake. It would be rice whiskey.
Distilled alcohols, such as whiskey and cognac (one from grain, the other from fruit) are just alcohol, water, and a miniscule amount of odd molecules that give it its particular flavor. Alcohol doesn't go bad. It's a preservative.
Beer goes off because it still contains an awful lot of the food items it was made from. That's why it requires high alcohol content to preserve it.
As it happens that's the reason the only beer I drink is sake. Many grains are poisonous to me. Rice isn't. Many US states have an alcohol content limit on beer. I think it's 7% where I am, and in some states it's half that.
So I actually benefit from the beer/wine confusion attached to sake. Sake is a high alcohol content beer. 10 to 20% ( and it still goes off in a couple of months. It's a very light and simple beer. Rice, water, mold and yeast. That's it.), but it's regulated as wine, so it doesn't have to be turned into water to sell it. And since sake is such a simple beer water is pretty much what 7% sake would be. Like throwing a shot of whiskey into a Perrier bottle. Pointless.
KFG
Yes, but isn't the four color problem exactly an example of what the article is about? The last time I looked it had never been fully human verified.
KFG
Are you sure?
KFG
. . .at least warn the reader that what he is reading is from an obviously biased source. . .
You mean like the first sentence?
KFG
Wanna have some fun? Just walk up quitely behind your sysadmin and say, in a mild voice, "Windows patch."
Don't expect any work from him for the rest of the day though. Just let him gibber quietly in the corner. It'll go away.
KFG
Really, to hell with depicting the Puppeteers, I'm still recovering from their depicting Sir Richard Francis Burton as an American astronaut. One of the reasons I'll always have a soft spot for the River World is because it introduced me to Sir Richard, who was absolutely the perfect character to focus on in that setting.
Oh well, at least they didn't have him capture the Enigma machine or something. (They didn't, did they? I couldn't watch it all the way through).
KFG
One of the nice things about NiCads is that you can get them to discharge very quickly, making R/C racers stuck with the bloody things.
These batteries will absolutely revolutionize R/C car racing, virtually obsoleting fuel cars, except for those that get off on the sound.
Extrapolate.
Yes, that causes issues. I once saw a guy cut a screwdriver nearly in half when he acidentally shorted his pack (on the other hand being able to make an emergency spot weld from a battery pack could be held to be a virtue in some situations).
And I've seen battery packs that were pushed so hard that their solder connections melted.
But racing is like that, and there are other applications where a high discharge rate is the primary virtue being looked for.
KFG