It turned out to be a huge debacle in the city, due to the important nature of molasses at the time (this was right before WWI and molasses is used to make munitions) and the destruction it caused to one of Boston's poorest and most crowded neighborhoods.
Plus, the racial component. There was a scare in the city at the time about Italian anarchists trying to stop the American war machine, and the disaster was initially blamed on them.
There's an excellent book about it. I've read it and heartily recommend it to people interested in wierd history or Boston history. It covers all the factors that caused the accident, the accident itself, and the massive legal case that resulted from it.
Hey there, folks. I can't speak about Cowboy Bebop, but the original Gundam series is being dropped, but not for any reasons having to do with the attacks.
According to Ain't It Cool, it's being dropped for the simple reaon of low ratings. It may a very important anime historically, but visually, compared to, say, Gundam Wing, and 8th MS Team (which is replacing MS Gundam in its time slot) is really dated.
I used to work tech support over at a DSL ISP (the one with the flying turtles) and, AIR, PPPoE was one of the suggested solutions to the biggest obstacle that DSL has: access.
You see, DSL can only extend to areas that use copper phone lines the whole way from your house to the local central office. Also, the phone company puts all sorts of funky devices on all its phone lines which either
a) let them fit more phone lines without running more wires
or
b) let them run phone signals out farther that they'd actually run without help.
And the kicker is, the phone companies have no idea what's on their lines.
Which means the DSL companies can only provide service to a very small area.
So, this solution will most likely allow DSL to spread to many areas it otherwise couldn't have, or could only extend to at pitiful 144 kbps speeds.
Mind you, it's been awhile. I could be wrong. Any other DSL workers out there that can help me with my rusty memory?
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Actually, the devastation was pretty extreme for that portion of Boston.
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See:
http://edp.org/molasses.htm
It turned out to be a huge debacle in the city, due to the important nature of molasses at the time (this was right before WWI and molasses is used to make munitions) and the destruction it caused to one of Boston's poorest and most crowded neighborhoods.
Plus, the racial component. There was a scare in the city at the time about Italian anarchists trying to stop the American war machine, and the disaster was initially blamed on them.
There's an excellent book about it. I've read it and heartily recommend it to people interested in wierd history or Boston history. It covers all the factors that caused the accident, the accident itself, and the massive legal case that resulted from it.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807050210/sr=8-
Spike's a tosser. Sam is Da Man. (sorry. just pimping Sluggy because it's been really good lately.)
"Like a great blue salmon of Justice, the mighty Tick courses upstream to the very spawning ground of evil."
Hey there, folks. I can't speak about Cowboy Bebop, but the original Gundam series is being dropped, but not for any reasons having to do with the attacks.
According to Ain't It Cool, it's being dropped for the simple reaon of low ratings. It may a very important anime historically, but visually, compared to, say, Gundam Wing, and 8th MS Team (which is replacing MS Gundam in its time slot) is really dated.
So, please, stop spreading FUD, people.
I used to work tech support over at a DSL ISP (the one with the flying turtles) and, AIR, PPPoE was one of the suggested solutions to the biggest obstacle that DSL has: access.
You see, DSL can only extend to areas that use copper phone lines the whole way from your house to the local central office. Also, the phone company puts all sorts of funky devices on all its phone lines which either
a) let them fit more phone lines without running more wires
or
b) let them run phone signals out farther that they'd actually run without help.
And the kicker is, the phone companies have no idea what's on their lines.
Which means the DSL companies can only provide service to a very small area.
So, this solution will most likely allow DSL to spread to many areas it otherwise couldn't have, or could only extend to at pitiful 144 kbps speeds.
Mind you, it's been awhile. I could be wrong.
Any other DSL workers out there that can help me with my rusty memory?