After Nebraska, the only time my Sprint PCS phone found a digital signal was in / around Salt Lake City, and again within 30 or so miles of Reno. Nothing else. Although that was August 2001, I'd be pleasantly shocked if they'd expanded coverage in the Basin and Range since then.
Heck, they still haven't gotten along I-94 west of Jamestown ND yet, and there's way more people along there than on I-80 between SLC & Reno. Not counting truckers.
Some of those places are along a faster route than via Des Moines etc.
I've done proof-of-concept driving on this route on numerous trips to The Cities, and one to Burning Man. (For us easterners that means driving I-80 to Wadsworth NV, which is almost "all the way to Reno.")
1) US-169 to St James MN. Until Mankato this is a national scenic byway and correspondingly nicer than I-35. 2) MN-4 to I-90 3) I-90 thru Sioux Falls (www.getyourgameon.net) and Mitchell (the aforementioned Corn Palace, www.travelsd.com).
4a) Speed route: US-83 Murdo SD -> North Platte NE, where you take I-80. The Sand Hills mean no cops but also no net access. Some find this area boring; others find it aesthetically pleasing. Good prep for upcoming desert driving.
4b) Scenic route: continue on I-90 to the Black Hills, home of tourist stuff like Mt Rushmore, Wind Cave national park, Crazy Horse (Motto: "Hey, let's sculpt an entire mountain!"), and the for-kids-only (boring to adults) Bedrock City. From there, getting to I-80 is your problem; I've only ever taken the speed route. I-90 -> I-25 -> WY-220 -> US-287 looks promising... Teapot Dome, Independance Rock etc.
5) I-80 takes forever. The semi trailers thin out after Salt Lake but never go away; it's their road and we just drive on it.
In Wyoming, I recomend the Ft Bridger state historic site (remember the Oregon Trail games?) and/or a detour on US-30 to Fossil Butte national monument. Many old fish imprints there. Como Bluff (E of Medicine Bow) might also be cool.
Nevada is an cycle of coaxing your overheating car over the mountain, drop into the valley at 90+ mph, and spend two hours crossing the sagebrush valley to the next line of mountains. Repeat. Repeat. You'll pass like two or three federal prisons and almost nothing else. The Pyramid Lake is over-rated as a photo site - skip it. Forget net access... you'll only have either 0 or 1 radio stations.
Should take three days plus stop-and-look-around time. Enjoy.
- Eric
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I think he meant an idea that was simultaneously green and colorless. Either there's a light sufficient for the (rods or cones? one or the other) in your eyes to register a shown-upon object as green, or the light is insufficient (assuming there's really an object there that would be green, etc).
Granted a colorblind person might precieve a green item as colorless, but that's easily solved. Let's use only one observer, who is able to tell if things are green or not (given adequate light and a green object sufficiently illuminated as above).
So, a green thing cannot be simultaneously colorless.
As for ideas, I've heard of colorful language so I'd postulate that there could be colorful ideas. Colorful implies having color, so the point about the difficulty in determining the color of an idea is valid.
My best guess: a concrete thing (say, a computer case) can be either green or not-green, but not both at the same time. (Colorless would be a subset of not-green.) As for non-concrete things like ideas... who knows?
Uh, yeah, whatever. Broadening the range of accessible files will most likely increase the amount of bandwidth used. And bandwidth consumption, not legal concerns, was the reason my college (North Dakota State University) banned it.
A copy of their reasons for banning it can be found here. The only part I edited out was the name and contact info of the statement's author.
I'm not taking a stand (see my signature below), I'm just trying to make some more information available to y'all.
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After Nebraska, the only time my Sprint PCS phone found a digital signal was in / around Salt Lake City, and again within 30 or so miles of Reno. Nothing else. Although that was August 2001, I'd be pleasantly shocked if they'd expanded coverage in the Basin and Range since then.
Heck, they still haven't gotten along I-94 west of Jamestown ND yet, and there's way more people along there than on I-80 between SLC & Reno. Not counting truckers.
Some of those places are along a faster route than via Des Moines etc.
I've done proof-of-concept driving on this route on numerous trips to The Cities, and one to Burning Man. (For us easterners that means driving I-80 to Wadsworth NV, which is almost "all the way to Reno.")
1) US-169 to St James MN. Until Mankato this is a national scenic byway and correspondingly nicer than I-35.
2) MN-4 to I-90
3) I-90 thru Sioux Falls (www.getyourgameon.net) and Mitchell (the aforementioned Corn Palace, www.travelsd.com).
4a) Speed route: US-83 Murdo SD -> North Platte NE, where you take I-80. The Sand Hills mean no cops but also no net access. Some find this area boring; others find it aesthetically pleasing. Good prep for upcoming desert driving.
4b) Scenic route: continue on I-90 to the Black Hills, home of tourist stuff like Mt Rushmore, Wind Cave national park, Crazy Horse (Motto: "Hey, let's sculpt an entire mountain!"), and the for-kids-only (boring to adults) Bedrock City. From there, getting to I-80 is your problem; I've only ever taken the speed route. I-90 -> I-25 -> WY-220 -> US-287 looks promising... Teapot Dome, Independance Rock etc.
5) I-80 takes forever. The semi trailers thin out after Salt Lake but never go away; it's their road and we just drive on it.
In Wyoming, I recomend the Ft Bridger state historic site (remember the Oregon Trail games?) and/or a detour on US-30 to Fossil Butte national monument. Many old fish imprints there. Como Bluff (E of Medicine Bow) might also be cool.
Nevada is an cycle of coaxing your overheating car over the mountain, drop into the valley at 90+ mph, and spend two hours crossing the sagebrush valley to the next line of mountains. Repeat. Repeat. You'll pass like two or three federal prisons and almost nothing else. The Pyramid Lake is over-rated as a photo site - skip it. Forget net access... you'll only have either 0 or 1 radio stations.
Should take three days plus stop-and-look-around time. Enjoy.
- Eric
I think he meant an idea that was simultaneously green and colorless. Either there's a light sufficient for the (rods or cones? one or the other) in your eyes to register a shown-upon object as green, or the light is insufficient (assuming there's really an object there that would be green, etc).
Granted a colorblind person might precieve a green item as colorless, but that's easily solved. Let's use only one observer, who is able to tell if things are green or not (given adequate light and a green object sufficiently illuminated as above).
So, a green thing cannot be simultaneously colorless.
As for ideas, I've heard of colorful language so I'd postulate that there could be colorful ideas. Colorful implies having color, so the point about the difficulty in determining the color of an idea is valid.
My best guess: a concrete thing (say, a computer case) can be either green or not-green, but not both at the same time. (Colorless would be a subset of not-green.) As for non-concrete things like ideas... who knows?
'course not, was too busy being amazed at the possibility of a 1st post (which you beat me to, congrats).
A copy of their reasons for banning it can be found here. The only part I edited out was the name and contact info of the statement's author.
I'm not taking a stand (see my signature below), I'm just trying to make some more information available to y'all.