"Camden-based food processor Campbell Soup Company was the only stock in the Standard & Poor's 500 index to post a gain during Monday's historic sell-off.
Its stock rose 12 cents in the midst of the biggest one-day point decline in the history of the Dow Jones Industrial Average."
Firearm makers are stable, but haven't done anything spectacular. Still, we'll all need to protect our soup.
"it was enough in the end that an individual's ego made them stick to their principles."
Fear of being shitcanned next election by their constituents (tell my redneck buddies they need to be taxed to death to bail out some rich pig and see how THAT goes over) had nothing to do with this sudden outbreak of concern...
Good caveats. I did 26 years in the Air Force, (which has been aptly called "college with a crew cut!) and I met MANY people there who bailed from all the other services (except Coast Guard!). Did the usual (Germany, Korea, 2-something years sandbox deployments, etc) and would do it again in a heartbeat. Aircraft maintenance was great techy fun (Avionics/Engines/Crew Chief on OV-10/F-4/F-16 A/B/C/D).
Retiring debt-free before age 50 is nice too. I'll be doing the "professional student" thing for a few years (after Aug.'09 when my VEAP-victim self is eligible). Lots of my friends went with related careers after retirement (tech rep, AMT, Lockheed mod team) and are doing nicely. I don't have to work (yay for retiring where it's cheap) so I'll go to school for fun.
"It could also mean that the economy is shit and these were the only jobs they could find."
It won't get better for some time, so consider what I did back in 1981. Join the military in a non-bullet-catcher specialty. The new Webb G.I. Bill is a FULL four-year ride to college with a monthly stipend, so you can wait out the failing economy while adding something employers respect to your resume, then get paid to go to school for another four years. With your degree, you can try for an officer slot and work less for much more money.
"You better not cheat on your wife or girlfriend. Go to happy finish massage parlors in the middle of day. Basically do anything you want to be private, since it will be a trivial matter to find out EVERYWHERE you have been for the last 5 years."
There IS a way to deal with that, which is to flaunt that which would normally be restrained by "shame" and conventional mores. Grow an "outlaw biker" (the real ones) attitude and just don't give a fuck, and encourage others to behave likewise. Creative ways to manipulate the fact one is under surveillance in order to distract people who rely on that surveillance will offer themselves as well.
Manufacturers have every incentive to avoid standard form-factors (except within their lineup, witness the various IBM accessory bays) because it is better for sales if users shitcan broken machines instead of fixing them.
I'd love modularity myself, especially the ability to easily pop out the SSD and carry that with me.
A "double-ended" SSD mount sleeve with a SATA connector on one end and a USB connector on the other would be even better.
"Nobody needs a notebook because its too bulky and requires a bag of some sort to transport, the same as a small laptop...
A Good internet enabled Phone and a Good laptop overlaps the niche of the notebook..."
That may depend on the size of the person carrying it.
I'm 6'2"/230lbs and don't mind carrying a laptop (if it has a HANDLE like the Toughbooks, I don't get the lack of handles...) but would prefer a netbook with phone functionality. To each his/her/its own.
"I remember an invention I had in high school auto-shop, in 1978 (I was an electronics nerd and gear head) of drilling hole in a distributor cap, fastening a mirror to the rotor and using opto-electronics to detect the rotation and fire a small coil for each spark plug. I was able to run the car without a high voltage distributor. I should have patented it, because cars more or less work like that now. Anyway, I digress."
"You aren't going to come up with a solution those guys haven't thought about."
Harley-Davidson already had a commercial "chopper wheel" opto system in '78, firing a separate "wasted spark" coil across both cylinders (lighter weight than individual coils). Motorcycles had individual and paired coils without a distributor for more than a decade prior to that. It wasn't done on cars for obvious reasons of expense.
No, the proper way to test it is by dyno runs under controlled conditions. No vehicle is required if an engine dyno is available. No engine dyno? Then use a vehicle dyon that measures HP at the wheels.
Engine performance is easy to measure and plenty of community colleges and advanced auto engine builders have dynos.
This isn't rocket science. The device can be turned on or off, the temp and pressure of the fuel can be measured before and after the device, and the viscosity of fuel samples tapped from before and after the device can be determined.
What is needed are the specs of the device as constructed so that it may be reproduced, because the experiment cannot be reproduced without the device itself!
"Repeat the experiments and prove him wrong or shut the fuck up."
Easily done IF THE SPECIFICATIONS and PLANS of the device and power supply were included in the paper. Had they been available, it would appear to be a simple machine shop task to make the bits.
I have a better idea. You are so impressed, go buy one, become a distributor, and become wealthy as an example to us filthy skeptics.
"Who owns the military? The upper class. Armed resistance, or for that matter, any form of resistance against the upper class will inevitably fail, because they can wipe you off the map or have you "disappeared" with just the push of a button."
Having served in the military for 26 years, I note that the people in the military are not usually of the upper class. Even if every person in the military were magically turned into trained infantry and magically bought in to enslaving their families and friends (not likely with the quantity of Southern white boys in combat arms) there is no way for them to cover all of the US.
Think Iraq is a bitch to control? Should the US population wish to shrug off the government, it could easily do so. It wouldn't take force-on-force pitched battles in most cases, and the reliance of the military on tech instead of people would guarantee failure against determined public resistance.
That said, people don't revolt because they don't have "freedom" (whatever that is), they revolt because they lack money, food, economic opportunity, etc. Power is the means to get stuff. When one has no "stuff" it makes perfect sense to kill someone else who is impeding their ability to get stuff.
Automakers could easily run a high-pressure second stage fuel pump/lines/injectors for finer atomization.
Designers are working on direct injection gasoline engines to blast the fuel into the combustion chamber, "diesel style", for even better combustion control than the common injector location upstream of the intake valve.
These retrofit with a cylinder head redesign, and are proven on ultralight aircraft engines among others:
"NOTE: Copies of this study are available to working journalists and may be obtained by contacting Preston M. Moretz in Temple University's Office of News Communications at 215-204-4380 or pmoretz@temple.edu."
Why isn't the study available as a download? If it's true, there are plenty of skilled fabricators who can whip up a test mule and validate the assertions.
"It's just the bourgeois finally waking-up and wanting to put back the genie in the bottle, so they get back to the times where only the very rich can afford a printing press or a radio station or a TV studio so they can tell everybody what THEY approve of and nothing else."
It's part of the cycle of history. Eventually, masters remove the reasons for slaves no to kill them, and the cycle starts anew.
That's not a bad idea. I favor a parental opt-out for science and biology classes because both sides MUST like the outcome.
The Christian Taliban can avoid polluting their young with evil ideas, and we can avoid polluting scientific fields with Superstitionists. Christians must like this choice because it cannot have a bad outcome for them.
This is a war where neither side will be convinced of anything different, so non-Superstitionists should leverage superstition to maneuver Superstitionists out of the way.
As learning science and technology becomes more demanding, the barrier to entry will be higher. Self-imposed barriers to entry by people we don't need there in the first place can usefully backfire. Religionists in the US are Fundamentally enemies of science (the tiny number on Slashdot don't matter) so the thing to do is exactly what their leaders do. Provide choices they will want to accept because of their beliefs. We have every right and social duty to manipulate these people in this manner.
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"fixes are not available," /me inserts non-multisession live CDs into all my machines...
"Bring it on!" :)
"Right now we are advising all our clients to put everything they've got into canned food and shotguns."
I find your ideas intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter:
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newjersey/ny-bc-nj--campbellssoup-st0930sep30,0,1001597.story
"Camden-based food processor Campbell Soup Company was the only stock in the Standard & Poor's 500 index to post a gain during Monday's historic sell-off.
Its stock rose 12 cents in the midst of the biggest one-day point decline in the history of the Dow Jones Industrial Average."
Firearm makers are stable, but haven't done anything spectacular. Still, we'll all need to protect our soup.
"I do this about once a year and store backups on archive-quality DVDs in my nearby bank"
Given the current economy, where can we find an archive-quality bank?
"Its time for revolution! Viva Quebec!"
French identity must be preserved!
Break out the white banners of victory, and greet the enemy legs akimbo!
"it was enough in the end that an individual's ego made them stick to their principles."
Fear of being shitcanned next election by their constituents (tell my redneck buddies they need to be taxed to death to bail out some rich pig and see how THAT goes over) had nothing to do with this sudden outbreak of concern...
Good caveats. I did 26 years in the Air Force, (which has been aptly called "college with a crew cut!) and I met MANY people there who bailed from all the other services (except Coast Guard!). Did the usual (Germany, Korea, 2-something years sandbox deployments, etc) and would do it again in a heartbeat. Aircraft maintenance was great techy fun (Avionics/Engines/Crew Chief on OV-10/F-4/F-16 A/B/C/D).
Retiring debt-free before age 50 is nice too. I'll be doing the "professional student" thing for a few years (after Aug.'09 when my VEAP-victim self is eligible). Lots of my friends went with related careers after retirement (tech rep, AMT, Lockheed mod team) and are doing nicely. I don't have to work (yay for retiring where it's cheap) so I'll go to school for fun.
"It could also mean that the economy is shit and these were the only jobs they could find."
It won't get better for some time, so consider what I did back in 1981. Join the military in a non-bullet-catcher specialty. The new Webb G.I. Bill is a FULL four-year ride to college with a monthly stipend, so you can wait out the failing economy while adding something employers respect to your resume, then get paid to go to school for another four years. With your degree, you can try for an officer slot and work less for much more money.
"It's a bit like watching the best bits of Seinfeld after a 24 hour marathon of Golden Girls. "
Quite an accomplishment!
I'd be too fapped out after that much Bea Arthur.
"And you can see McCain's shadow stacking the layers..."
Proof the world is only 10,000 years old!
"We need to find a short blond kid missing an arm and leg."
Or make one.
"You better not cheat on your wife or girlfriend. Go to happy finish massage parlors in the middle of day. Basically do anything you want to be private, since it will be a trivial matter to find out EVERYWHERE you have been for the last 5 years."
There IS a way to deal with that, which is to flaunt that which would normally be restrained by "shame" and conventional mores. Grow an "outlaw biker" (the real ones) attitude and just don't give a fuck, and encourage others to behave likewise. Creative ways to manipulate the fact one is under surveillance in order to distract people who rely on that surveillance will offer themselves as well.
Manufacturers have every incentive to avoid standard form-factors (except within their lineup, witness the various IBM accessory bays) because it is better for sales if users shitcan broken machines instead of fixing them.
I'd love modularity myself, especially the ability to easily pop out the SSD and carry that with me.
A "double-ended" SSD mount sleeve with a SATA connector on one end and a USB connector on the other would be even better.
"Nobody needs a notebook because its too bulky and requires a bag of some sort to transport, the same as a small laptop...
A Good internet enabled Phone and a Good laptop overlaps the niche of the notebook..."
That may depend on the size of the person carrying it.
I'm 6'2"/230lbs and don't mind carrying a laptop (if it has a HANDLE like the Toughbooks, I don't get the lack of handles...) but would prefer a netbook with phone functionality. To each his/her/its own.
"I remember an invention I had in high school auto-shop, in 1978 (I was an electronics nerd and gear head) of drilling hole in a distributor cap, fastening a mirror to the rotor and using opto-electronics to detect the rotation and fire a small coil for each spark plug. I was able to run the car without a high voltage distributor. I should have patented it, because cars more or less work like that now. Anyway, I digress."
"You aren't going to come up with a solution those guys haven't thought about."
Harley-Davidson already had a commercial "chopper wheel" opto system in '78, firing a separate "wasted spark" coil across both cylinders (lighter weight than individual coils). Motorcycles had individual and paired coils without a distributor for more than a decade prior to that. It wasn't done on cars for obvious reasons of expense.
"Ultimately Europeans are no greener than Americans - we are just being given more encouragement to be green by Adam Smith's "invisible hand"."
Those fuel prices are more like a kick in the yarbles from Adam Smith's "invisible foot"!
No, the proper way to test it is by dyno runs under controlled conditions. No vehicle is required if an engine dyno is available. No engine dyno? Then use a vehicle dyon that measures HP at the wheels.
Engine performance is easy to measure and plenty of community colleges and advanced auto engine builders have dynos.
This isn't rocket science. The device can be turned on or off, the temp and pressure of the fuel can be measured before and after the device, and the viscosity of fuel samples tapped from before and after the device can be determined.
What is needed are the specs of the device as constructed so that it may be reproduced, because the experiment cannot be reproduced without the device itself!
"Repeat the experiments and prove him wrong or shut the fuck up."
Easily done IF THE SPECIFICATIONS and PLANS of the device and power supply were included in the paper. Had they been available, it would appear to be a simple machine shop task to make the bits.
I have a better idea. You are so impressed, go buy one, become a distributor, and become wealthy as an example to us filthy skeptics.
Nice read, but without actual plans it isn't practical to test what was supposedly done. The "devices" are photographed at some distance.
Actual specifications would allow proof that the tech works.
"Who owns the military? The upper class. Armed resistance, or for that matter, any form of resistance against the upper class will inevitably fail, because they can wipe you off the map or have you "disappeared" with just the push of a button."
Having served in the military for 26 years, I note that the people in the military are not usually of the upper class. Even if every person in the military were magically turned into trained infantry and magically bought in to enslaving their families and friends (not likely with the quantity of Southern white boys in combat arms) there is no way for them to cover all of the US.
Think Iraq is a bitch to control? Should the US population wish to shrug off the government, it could easily do so. It wouldn't take force-on-force pitched battles in most cases, and the reliance of the military on tech instead of people would guarantee failure against determined public resistance.
That said, people don't revolt because they don't have "freedom" (whatever that is), they revolt because they lack money, food, economic opportunity, etc. Power is the means to get stuff. When one has no "stuff" it makes perfect sense to kill someone else who is impeding their ability to get stuff.
"A finer mist *does* improve fuel economy."
Automakers could easily run a high-pressure second stage fuel pump/lines/injectors for finer atomization.
Designers are working on direct injection gasoline engines to blast the fuel into the combustion chamber, "diesel style", for even better combustion control than the common injector location upstream of the intake valve.
These retrofit with a cylinder head redesign, and are proven on ultralight aircraft engines among others:
http://www.orbeng.com.au/orbital/directinjection/dioverview.htm
"NOTE: Copies of this study are available to working journalists and may be obtained by contacting Preston M. Moretz in Temple University's Office of News Communications at 215-204-4380 or pmoretz@temple.edu."
Why isn't the study available as a download? If it's true, there are plenty of skilled fabricators who can whip up a test mule and validate the assertions.
"It's just the bourgeois finally waking-up and wanting to put back the genie in the bottle, so they get back to the times where only the very rich can afford a printing press or a radio station or a TV studio so they can tell everybody what THEY approve of and nothing else."
It's part of the cycle of history. Eventually, masters remove the reasons for slaves no to kill them, and the cycle starts anew.
That's not a bad idea. I favor a parental opt-out for science and biology classes because both sides MUST like the outcome.
The Christian Taliban can avoid polluting their young with evil ideas, and we can avoid polluting scientific fields with Superstitionists. Christians must like this choice because it cannot have a bad outcome for them.
This is a war where neither side will be convinced of anything different, so non-Superstitionists should leverage superstition to maneuver Superstitionists out of the way.
As learning science and technology becomes more demanding, the barrier to entry will be higher. Self-imposed barriers to entry by people we don't need there in the first place can usefully backfire. Religionists in the US are Fundamentally enemies of science (the tiny number on Slashdot don't matter) so the thing to do is exactly what their leaders do. Provide choices they will want to accept because of their beliefs. We have every right and social duty to manipulate these people in this manner.
"Microsoft reacted signing a 10 year collaboration agreement with Al Qaeda. Together, they will develop WMD... "\
Poor Al Qaeda. They have never dealt with anyone that ruthless...
If he can land on it he is a better (and more abrasion-resistant) man than I.