It wasn't the gas tanks that were bad on the Pintos, it was bolts behind the tank that were too long. Ford recalled and fixed them. I know, I had a '74 Pinto that was recalled back in the day, with mag wheels!
What Ford didn't/couldn't fix was the horrid way the car shook between 64 and 72MPH. They didn't have to fix that because the national speed limit was 55MPH.
Wasn't that from the Notebooks of Lazarus Long, the 2000+ year old character? Wasn't Woody Smith talking to other Howard Family members, who's life expectancy was 1000+ years?
Yeah, try to be any good at all that in today's world with your expected life time.
So they have the technology to decode the sapphire discs but don't have the technology for a Geiger counter?
I see how this plays out: They dig up these containment vessels that seem to have been buried very carefully in a remote area behind many protections. These must be the burial chambers of the kings! Let's open them and find the loot! Then a few years later the archaeologists die of a horrid disease. It must be the curse of the mummy!
I don't use my pinkies much either. I think that is from learning on an old Underwood #5 at a very young age where I didn't have the hand-heft to imprint a good 'a' or 'q', and so shifted my hand one finger over to do that. I also never use the right shift key because it was sticky on that specific Underwood. You would have thought that after 40+ years I would have retrained myself.
I wonder how a young typist (keyboarder) that never had to deal with a non-electric mechanical typewriter would fair on that old Underwood. Not only were you not able to just backspace to correct an error, to get a clean page you had maintain a constant impact force on key letter.
The other thing they do is respond to complaints about self-oscillating BDAs from the cell phone techs that actually find them. I got a service call to meet the FCC at a gas station because the WiFi amp in a pump top TV was going whacky.
Since you said "priest" I guess you are talking the Roman Catholic Church (tm). Know that they are, and have been, playing the long game. It's worked out for them, They have their own country.
Not nary two years ago I stood upon a roof top in Clearwater FL as a superhero of justice (network engineer) alongside my sidekick (general contractor) and peered (as we setup a Clearwire cell site) upon all those that had dedicated 1,000,000,000,000 years of their existence to serving the word of Mr. L. Ron Hubbard, a science fiction writer of some modest renown. We, in aghast awe, watched as they boarded their numerous bus vehicles to travel far to partake in what we would call lunch. What manor of noontime evil feast, we could not imagine. For they looked grim and uninspired.
I bared my being to him at that time and allowed that for some short time in the early 80s I had once myself, this bastion of all that is right with network protocols, had fallen suspect to the siren cry of their teachings I related the trial and tribulations of having to buy their manuscripts and attend communication training (which, sadly, they did not impart the truth of a single RFC.) Fortunately I escaped by the narrowest means of not having enough money to buy the next book. For ages (about 2 hours) I beat my brow over not having the manly integrity to fight through my engrams and discover the universal truths of the Xemu protocol (RFC-infinity) and thereby understand, just my laying the wires upon my tongue, the truth of every communication protocol in the universe.
But now that I've gone through deprogramming I'm much better.
Now just if we could get everyone that believes in sky faeries to take deprogramming.
Learn the ins-and-outs of RS-232 serial communication. I'm in my 50s and had a contract job a bit over a year ago at Clearwire bringing on-line new data centers. We were sent to various cities and instructed to bring up dozens of pieces of new equipment freshly installed. The first way you're going to talk to most of this data center stuff is via serial console, at least enough to get it talking IP. Because I had spent many years supporting terminal applications (where terminal means VT100 or a Wyse dumb terminal) I was the go-to guy for serial questions.
First get to know a good terminal program for your OS. I happen to like minicom for BSD/Linux boxes. It reminds me of the old telex program for my DOS days. Learn how to use a volt meter or a break-out-box to figure out which pins are sending and receiving. Google/wiki up the pin-outs for 9 and 25 pin connectors. Learn what the difference between software and hardware handshaking is (hint, XON and XOFF are ASCII control symbols.) Learn the difference between IEEE-232 (old RS-232C, +-12VDC swing) voltage levels and "TTL" (+5/ground swing) levels, and how to build a box to convert them.
Serial communication is the POTS line of data center work. Second is to learn basic phone (POTS) wiring standards. Those old technologies are still used as systems of last resort.
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I know that I "unfriended" you a while ago but I have to say that I would give this rant +5000 insightful. Maybe I need to get off your lawn.
Seattle's Museum of Flight has one too. Hell of a machine to gander at.
It wasn't the gas tanks that were bad on the Pintos, it was bolts behind the tank that were too long. Ford recalled and fixed them. I know, I had a '74 Pinto that was recalled back in the day, with mag wheels!
What Ford didn't/couldn't fix was the horrid way the car shook between 64 and 72MPH. They didn't have to fix that because the national speed limit was 55MPH.
Wasn't that from the Notebooks of Lazarus Long, the 2000+ year old character? Wasn't Woody Smith talking to other Howard Family members, who's life expectancy was 1000+ years?
Yeah, try to be any good at all that in today's world with your expected life time.
If you gave a top 10%er of 1700 the chance to live like a bottom 10% today I think they would take you up on it.
I think you would have him at hot showers and Novocaine.
You should have used craftsmanship to build a rock picker that you pull behind the tractor.
That's called "offspring" and it does take craftsmanship to make them right.
So they have the technology to decode the sapphire discs but don't have the technology for a Geiger counter?
I see how this plays out:
They dig up these containment vessels that seem to have been buried very carefully in a remote area behind many protections. These must be the burial chambers of the kings! Let's open them and find the loot! Then a few years later the archaeologists die of a horrid disease. It must be the curse of the mummy!
Many bad horror films are then made.
I don't use my pinkies much either. I think that is from learning on an old Underwood #5 at a very young age where I didn't have the hand-heft to imprint a good 'a' or 'q', and so shifted my hand one finger over to do that. I also never use the right shift key because it was sticky on that specific Underwood. You would have thought that after 40+ years I would have retrained myself.
I wonder how a young typist (keyboarder) that never had to deal with a non-electric mechanical typewriter would fair on that old Underwood. Not only were you not able to just backspace to correct an error, to get a clean page you had maintain a constant impact force on key letter.
Three words: Elk, Deer, and Moose.
The other thing they do is respond to complaints about self-oscillating BDAs from the cell phone techs that actually find them. I got a service call to meet the FCC at a gas station because the WiFi amp in a pump top TV was going whacky.
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Hey! Don't leave the SWTPC 6800 out of that list.
You're right. Even Scientology uses "priest". I guess that priest and priest are about the same.
Quit trying to defend Catholicism. They are much more evil than that.
I just made you my only foe for that submission.
All well and good, but what do you say about pico vs nano as rudimentary text editor?
Check and mate!
Still waiting for minicom vs tip flame war.
Since you said "priest" I guess you are talking the Roman Catholic Church (tm). Know that they are, and have been, playing the long game. It's worked out for them, They have their own country.
Good link, I haven't seen that wiki page before.
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Well played!
You've never tried to implement the Bluetooth speck.
Sorry about the prose above. I was watching The Tick at the time.
Not nary two years ago I stood upon a roof top in Clearwater FL as a superhero of justice (network engineer) alongside my sidekick (general contractor) and peered (as we setup a Clearwire cell site) upon all those that had dedicated 1,000,000,000,000 years of their existence to serving the word of Mr. L. Ron Hubbard, a science fiction writer of some modest renown. We, in aghast awe, watched as they boarded their numerous bus vehicles to travel far to partake in what we would call lunch. What manor of noontime evil feast, we could not imagine. For they looked grim and uninspired.
I bared my being to him at that time and allowed that for some short time in the early 80s I had once myself, this bastion of all that is right with network protocols, had fallen suspect to the siren cry of their teachings I related the trial and tribulations of having to buy their manuscripts and attend communication training (which, sadly, they did not impart the truth of a single RFC.)
Fortunately I escaped by the narrowest means of not having enough money to buy the next book. For ages (about 2 hours) I beat my brow over not having the manly integrity to fight through my engrams and discover the universal truths of the Xemu protocol (RFC-infinity) and thereby understand, just my laying the wires upon my tongue, the truth of every communication protocol in the universe.
But now that I've gone through deprogramming I'm much better.
Now just if we could get everyone that believes in sky faeries to take deprogramming.
Follow on: Know what DTE and DCE mean regarding RS-232.
Learn the ins-and-outs of RS-232 serial communication. I'm in my 50s and had a contract job a bit over a year ago at Clearwire bringing on-line new data centers. We were sent to various cities and instructed to bring up dozens of pieces of new equipment freshly installed. The first way you're going to talk to most of this data center stuff is via serial console, at least enough to get it talking IP. Because I had spent many years supporting terminal applications (where terminal means VT100 or a Wyse dumb terminal) I was the go-to guy for serial questions.
First get to know a good terminal program for your OS. I happen to like minicom for BSD/Linux boxes. It reminds me of the old telex program for my DOS days. Learn how to use a volt meter or a break-out-box to figure out which pins are sending and receiving. Google/wiki up the pin-outs for 9 and 25 pin connectors. Learn what the difference between software and hardware handshaking is (hint, XON and XOFF are ASCII control symbols.) Learn the difference between IEEE-232 (old RS-232C, +-12VDC swing) voltage levels and "TTL" (+5/ground swing) levels, and how to build a box to convert them.
Serial communication is the POTS line of data center work. Second is to learn basic phone (POTS) wiring standards. Those old technologies are still used as systems of last resort.
**yes, I currently live in the center of the universe,...
Fremont, Seattle, WA?