Some claim the Bible is a source of morality, but that's clearly BS - tons of immoral things are advocated. Even the 10 commandments are at least 50% garbage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE8ooMBIyC8
Others claim that it's great literature. Again, BS - it's horribly written, rewritten and amounts of a bunch of boring text interspersed with occasional, weird and random violence.
Mostly it's just a book people point to but either avoid reading or read without attempting comprehension, as a part of their tribal affiliation.
The bible is actually just humanity's first hard-drive.
Remember your first hard drive? Just a big unorganized mess? Same thing.
Hey, let save all the rules & regs. Don't forget all the family records. Ooo, some cool song lyrics! Saved! A little pr0n (better call it 'Song of Solomon' so mom doesn't find it!) Recipes, great legendary stories, (later we'll add the first super-hero story!), more rules, fashion tips, architectural plans, boat plans... etc.
Really? Because I remember a story where a women caught in the act of adultery was brought to Jesus and He basically said "Don't judge her, you have no right. Then asked her to stop doing it." Very little murder was involved. Reference: http://biblehub.com/nlt/john/8.htm
...and this from the same guy who totally hated fig trees...?
RF chambers feel like coffins and definitely are not for the claustrophobic. Additionally they are not that rare . Anechoic chambers are in practically every place that does RF testing or RF engineering. See if you can find one at your local University. This article was clearly not written for scientists or engineers.
Right you are. People also forget that every MRI machine, in every hospital, everywhere in the world, is in a totally shielded room (and much, much larger than the little test closet in the article.)
So reading about a room (closet really) that "Oh my golly gosh - has NO cel service!!!. Imagine that!!" is kinda lame.
MRI RF Shielding specifications Copper soldered RF shielded enclosure for MRI scanner SECTION 13095 RADIO FREQUENCY SHIELDING FOR MRI SOLDERED COPPER RF SYSTEM PART 1 - GENERAL 1.1 DESCRIPTION The purpose of RF and magnetic shield construction is to create an enclosure in which radio frequency (RF) and/or electromagnetic interference (EMI) is contained and/or prevented from entering. This environment is necessary to ensure proper performance of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) equipment. ...more:
that "...small, windowless room high up in a San Francisco office building (that) gets no service at all." sure has one hell of a view according to the pic in TFA.
I already use a voice recognition/voice activated app for this. It uses a two word 'trigger' phrase.
When the waitperson is within range, any party at the table faces them and say the trigger phrase: "separate checks."
When the meal is done, multiple bills arrive that are delivered to each dining party, with the amounts for each of their food & beverage items listed, tax and total. Each party can calculate a gratuity based on their own opinion of the individual service they received.
This app also allows for the parties to arrive, and leave, at staggered times.
This is fairly advanced tech, so don't expect to see it on phone/tablets for a while...
If you know the exact distance where the solar system ends, please inform the people working on the Voyager program and save them the trouble...
This is all so arbitrary and semantic.
All we have to do is declare Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune to no longer be planets, and then we can say that Voyager left the Solar System when it passed the orbit apogee of Mars.
It doesn't cost nothing. It costs very very little but that isn't the same thing...
I'm guessing it cost more to pay the I.T. guy to build this 'closed' page and set up the forwarding links than it cost to pay to just leave the functioning site and servers up.
Come to think of it - they paid the IT guy AND are keeping the server up: just to keep this stupid 'closed' page up.
Luckily, NSA and TSA are not considered non-essential government services?
Apparently USDA is considered non-essential. They've already pulled the plug on the site:
"Due to the lapse in federal government funding, this website is not available. We sincerely regret this inconvenience. After funding has been restored, please allow some time for this website to become available again."
I saw a movie called "Duplex-Barbara" once, but it was about this girl named Barbara taking a shower (in her duplex), and then the Pizza delivery guy arrives.
Now that I think about it - there was some French kissing in it...
who are you going after... the bicyclist, or the guy with a truck and a lock safe containing untold goodies?
Yeah, I notice that all the truck food and water and gas and geny are in the open truck bed. So after zombies (or your neighbors) steal all your stuff, you're boned.
Also, you have a big gas engine under the hood. Any reason you couldn't hook that up to generate power instead or dragging around an entirely separate gas engine?
Paint job is flashy. If you're going to be camping out in the woods you might be better off with something like a us4ces camo. If you're going to be camping out in an urban environment maybe a faux distressed, rusty, beat-up P.O.S. paint job would work.
Are you going to sleep in the cab? Right behind the glass that will be busted out on day 2?
Has a snorkel for fording. Lockable metal side windows. (You could probably weld up some flat hillbilly armor for the front windows, too.) Roof tent for safe environment sleeping. Interior sleeping space for hazardous environment sleeping. 2 spare tire mounts. Solar panel. Built in 40L petrol tank. Also gets better millage than that pretty pick-up. (23mpg vs. 16mpg.)
Star Wars, when you see it when you're young, looks cool. A later analysis of the text shows that the writing is crap.
Well, the first one (IV: A New Hope) is strongest because he based it on a film from a master film maker: Akira Kurosawa. He loved the old movie serials, but he never intended it to be more than a one-off. (The 3rd draft title was: "The Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Starkiller." It was originally released just titled "Star Wars." It didn't get the 'serialized' title until its re-release in "81, after the release of "Empire Strikes Back" in "80.)
Unfortunately, after the success of the first one (IV) he proceeded to make more - but he didn't have any more high quality story to steal from.
Of course - the film he based "Star Wars" on was Kurosawa's "The Hidden Fortress;" stealing everything from the two wacky robots/Japanese peasants telling the story, to the wipe transitions.
"Star Wars" was so close to "Hidden Fortress" that Lucas actually considered buying the rights to the film.
It's set a few years from now, when police DNA testing is ubiquitous. There was a very clever criminal who stumbled into a crime scene by accident. He had a spray bottle of "Stadium DNA" with him, so he squirted it around the room before leaving.
It was all a form of “White Hat hacking” he says he did but never for purposes of stealing phone service or avoiding paying phone bills.
FTFY
First: I love Woz, and what he did for computing (stlll have my IIe in the garage)
If you are blue boxing you are, by definition, not paying for the phone services that you are using.
Building a blue box and and 'exploring' Ma Bell, can be considered "white hat." Once you start building them and selling them for a profit, not so much.
Remember, selling or owning them was very illegal back then. One builder lined his with Thermite across the PCB, so if the cops were approaching you could fry the board.
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A better reason people accept the inconsistencies is they don't read the damned thing.
Anyone who reads (i.e., actually parses, tries to understand, etc.) the bible comes out of it
either totally confused or an Atheist.
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/donald_morgan/inconsistencies.html
Some claim the Bible is a source of morality, but that's clearly BS - tons of immoral things are advocated. Even the 10 commandments are at least 50% garbage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE8ooMBIyC8
Others claim that it's great literature. Again, BS - it's horribly written, rewritten and amounts of a bunch of boring text interspersed with occasional, weird and random violence.
Mostly it's just a book people point to but either avoid reading or read without attempting comprehension, as a part of their tribal affiliation.
The bible is actually just humanity's first hard-drive.
Remember your first hard drive? Just a big unorganized mess?
Same thing.
Hey, let save all the rules & regs. Don't forget all the family records. Ooo, some cool song lyrics! Saved!
A little pr0n (better call it 'Song of Solomon' so mom doesn't find it!)
Recipes, great legendary stories, (later we'll add the first super-hero story!), more rules, fashion tips, architectural plans, boat plans... etc.
Really? Because I remember a story where a women caught in the act of adultery was brought to Jesus and He basically said "Don't judge her, you have no right. Then asked her to stop doing it." Very little murder was involved.
Reference:
http://biblehub.com/nlt/john/8.htm
...and this from the same guy who totally hated fig trees...?
http://jesushatesfigs.blogspot.com/
RF chambers feel like coffins and definitely are not for the claustrophobic. Additionally they are not that rare . Anechoic chambers are in practically every place that does RF testing or RF engineering. See if you can find one at your local University. This article was clearly not written for scientists or engineers.
Right you are. People also forget that every MRI machine, in every hospital, everywhere in the world, is in a totally shielded room (and much, much larger than the little test closet in the article.)
So reading about a room (closet really) that "Oh my golly gosh - has NO cel service!!!. Imagine that!!" is kinda lame.
MRI RF Shielding specifications ...more:
Copper soldered RF shielded enclosure for MRI scanner
SECTION 13095 RADIO FREQUENCY SHIELDING FOR MRI SOLDERED COPPER RF SYSTEM
PART 1 - GENERAL
1.1 DESCRIPTION
The purpose of RF and magnetic shield construction is to create an enclosure in which radio frequency (RF) and/or electromagnetic interference (EMI) is contained and/or prevented from entering. This environment is necessary to ensure proper performance of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) equipment.
http://www.national-mri-shielding-specifications.com/
that "...small, windowless room high up in a San Francisco office building (that) gets no service at all." sure has one hell of a view according to the pic in TFA.
That's not the room.
Animals are really going to hate the future with us 'polluting' the world with non-natural sources...
Why would they automatically 'hate' it? I've seen lots of dogs who LOVE non-natural Frisbees, cats who LOVE non-natural LASER spots.
I can't wait to see the first "cute kitty" YouTube video of a cat playing with the tactile feedback in mid-air.
I already use a voice recognition/voice activated app for this. It uses a two word 'trigger' phrase.
When the waitperson is within range, any party at the table faces them and say the trigger phrase: "separate checks."
When the meal is done, multiple bills arrive that are delivered to each dining party, with the amounts for each of their food & beverage items listed, tax and total. Each party can calculate a gratuity based on their own opinion of the individual service they received.
This app also allows for the parties to arrive, and leave, at staggered times.
This is fairly advanced tech, so don't expect to see it on phone/tablets for a while...
I think further research is called for, & I'd like to volunteer.
Certainly!
First, buy your wife a car...
Fuck oil and electricity. I want a *nuclear* powered engine. Now THAT will be an accident!
I'm sure that in 2043, plutonium is available in every corner drugstore, but in 2013, it's a little hard to come by.
That's why I use: Mr. Fusion!
http://images.wikia.com/bttf/images/3/36/Mr_Fusion_by_emmokapp.jpg
You think congress would furlough itself, or at least go without pay until other federal employees start getting paid again? Get real.
When this happened, Congress was ordered to lock down, and shelter in place.
The Democrats refused to budge.
The Republicans offered to move, only if anyone shot would NOT be given any health care.
If you know the exact distance where the solar system ends, please inform the people working on the Voyager program and save them the trouble...
This is all so arbitrary and semantic.
All we have to do is declare Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune to no longer be planets, and then we can say that Voyager left the Solar System when it passed the orbit apogee of Mars.
They didn't, but Tek's 4014 and 4051 looked kind of like they were doing that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpD1QXvtlcg&list=PL3DACE89AA461F5BC
Very cool...
Has any one made a text simulator that reproduces the way a storage tube display would draw characters, stroke-by-stroke, onto the screen?
Yeah, but the 4010 and 4014 are the real thing!
I was wondering if there was a simulator for PC.
They didn't, but Tek's 4014 and 4051 looked kind of like they were doing that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpD1QXvtlcg&list=PL3DACE89AA461F5BC
Very cool...
Has any one made a text simulator that reproduces the way a storage tube display would draw characters, stroke-by-stroke, onto the screen?
wow-- that is complete and utter bullshit.
If you owned a website and decided to stop paying all your bills, how many days would it take for your website to go offline?
Certainly not a few hours.
Well, the September bill may already be paid. The October bill might not come until the end of the month.
And the last shutdown only lasted 21 days, so it may work out.
It doesn't cost nothing. It costs very very little but that isn't the same thing...
I'm guessing it cost more to pay the I.T. guy to build this 'closed' page and set up the forwarding links than it cost to pay to just leave the functioning site and servers up.
Come to think of it - they paid the IT guy AND are keeping the server up: just to keep this stupid 'closed' page up.
Luckily, NSA and TSA are not considered non-essential government services?
Apparently USDA is considered non-essential. They've already pulled the plug on the site:
"Due to the lapse in federal government funding, this website is not available.
We sincerely regret this inconvenience.
After funding has been restored, please allow some time for this website to
become available again."
www.usda.gov
I saw a movie called "Duplex-Barbara" once, but it was about this girl named Barbara taking a shower (in her duplex), and then the Pizza delivery guy arrives.
Now that I think about it - there was some French kissing in it...
Don't forget the obvious: RIDING in the car, but not driving it, is apparently fine for the ovaries.
Try and wrap your head around that!
I'll just say this;
Danica Patrick: 0 children.
Coincidence?
(Here is a picture of her, obviously lamenting her career choice.
I urge you to look at this and think about her poor, poor abused reproductive system.)
http://www.wallpaper4me.com/images/wallpapers/hotroddanicapatrick-690981.jpeg
You're entire premise relies on the fact that A New Hope is the best of the Star Wars films.
It kinda falls apart when The Empire Strikes Back is widely regarded as the superior product.
De gustibus non disputandum est.
who are you going after... the bicyclist, or the guy with a truck and a lock safe containing untold goodies?
Yeah, I notice that all the truck food and water and gas and geny are in the open truck bed. So after zombies (or your neighbors) steal all your stuff, you're boned.
Also, you have a big gas engine under the hood. Any reason you couldn't hook that up to generate power instead or dragging around an entirely separate gas engine?
Paint job is flashy. If you're going to be camping out in the woods you might be better off with something like a us4ces camo. If you're going to be camping out in an urban environment maybe a faux distressed, rusty, beat-up P.O.S. paint job would work.
Are you going to sleep in the cab? Right behind the glass that will be busted out on day 2?
Overall - not impressed.
Something like this might be better:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oBH_vL4MMaw/UKPz2QksHlI/AAAAAAAAAfw/ZKtEa0Ey6Bk/s1600/overland+vehicle+land+rover+2.0.jpg
Has a snorkel for fording. Lockable metal side windows. (You could probably weld up some flat hillbilly armor for the front windows, too.) Roof tent for safe environment sleeping. Interior sleeping space for hazardous environment sleeping. 2 spare tire mounts. Solar panel. Built in 40L petrol tank. Also gets better millage than that pretty pick-up. (23mpg vs. 16mpg.)
Oh! One other big advantage - it actually exists!
Star Wars, when you see it when you're young, looks cool. A later analysis of the text shows that the writing is crap.
Well, the first one (IV: A New Hope) is strongest because he based it on a film from a master film maker: Akira Kurosawa. He loved the old movie serials, but he never intended it to be more than a one-off. (The 3rd draft title was: "The Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Starkiller." It was originally released just titled "Star Wars." It didn't get the 'serialized' title until its re-release in "81, after the release of "Empire Strikes Back" in "80.)
Unfortunately, after the success of the first one (IV) he proceeded to make more - but he didn't have any more high quality story to steal from.
Of course - the film he based "Star Wars" on was Kurosawa's "The Hidden Fortress;" stealing everything from the two wacky robots/Japanese peasants telling the story, to the wipe transitions.
"Star Wars" was so close to "Hidden Fortress" that Lucas actually considered buying the rights to the film.
No kickstarter needed. you can get that for $5
Well, I'm a 5 cent whore, so I'm hoping to get 100 people to "pledge."
If lightsabers were real, a fair number of people would carry one for self defense...
...I'm just picturing George Zimmerman with a light saber.
"Hey You! Kid!! What the hell are you doing around here!!!!" [bwazzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZ - bzzzzWAAAaaaa - bzZZZZWAAAaaa]
So, if photons have no mass, how do black holes keep the photons from escaping?
They don't. The gravitational field created by the black hole bends space-time.
Think of a marble rolling around a flat sheet. The marble always moves in a straight line.
Now imagine the sheet has a big depression in it. The marble still rolls 'straight' but as it follows the dip in the sheet, it 'curves' into the dip.
Now, to the marble, it feels like it's still going straight.
To an outside observer it looks like the marble is tracking into the dip.
It's set a few years from now, when police DNA testing is ubiquitous. There was a very clever criminal who stumbled into a crime scene by accident. He had a spray bottle of "Stadium DNA" with him, so he squirted it around the room before leaving.
And another Kickstarter project is born...
Except I'm calling the product: "$5 Hooker DNA"
It was all a form of “White Hat hacking” he says he did but never for purposes of stealing phone service or avoiding paying phone bills.
FTFY
First: I love Woz, and what he did for computing (stlll have my IIe in the garage)
If you are blue boxing you are, by definition, not paying for the phone services that you are using.
Building a blue box and and 'exploring' Ma Bell, can be considered "white hat."
Once you start building them and selling them for a profit, not so much.
Remember, selling or owning them was very illegal back then. One builder lined his with Thermite across the PCB, so if the cops were approaching you could fry the board.
More here:
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/the_spectator/2011/10/the_article_that_inspired_steve_jobs_secrets_of_the_little_blue_.html