Nearly all military vehicles, with the exception of aircraft, use diesel as fuel, but kerosene is not that different anyway. Anyone who is around large amounts of it knows that it's a constant struggle to keep "bugs" out of it so they don't consume it or clog fuel filters, you have to put additives in to kill them. What fantastic high-tech bio-weapon is needed when it's already happening?
Nova had something on once about how mold spores travel, they are in the upper atmosphere and have even been found in space! The point was they are still alive after all that, so a little ice, UV radiation and a near vacuum wouldn't hurt them on Mars.
You know that was the first thing I thought when I read the article, was someone who lost vision in an eye, but then as I read it I realized that it's better than most 3D displays because you don't need special glasses. Wasn't the big point, the excitement, the breakthrough of the thing that you don't need special 3D glasses to view the image? So even with one eye you could see an object in the sphere, not depth but still...objects. It's still a pretty cool display.
It won't work everyone will think there's a football game going on under it and run to it. Oi!
Won't the terrorists notice the big shadow on the ground? Ba da bing!
How can you take a soldier seriously when he sounds like Mickey Mouse(the helium). Doh!
Some kid(ie. American) with a gun will shoot it down. *pop* fzzzzz..... Johnny's Mother: "Johnny stop shooting down those nice soldiers in the balloons they don't like that!" Hary har har!
How can it be taken seriously when everyone make jokes about it? ouch!
I live in rural Canada. I know where food comes from, my back yard.
There's help and then there's outright politics. When you pay a farmer not to grow food, something is wrong.
I didn't intend to go off on a rant but...
We grow potatoes here, in 2000 one corner of a field had seven potaotes infected with something called Potato Wart, the US government banned shipments from here and threatened other provinces that if they accepted them they would suffer the consequences. Even though we proved in the lab that it was safe. The US government even used our labs to help them when they had the same problem. Our guys are good for getting the US off but not for our own farmers(ironic). Even worse is that several states had this exact same disease yet no action was taken by the US and our idiotic government.
BTW I'm not a farmer, my grandfather was. I know so much because it was in the god damn paper every day for nearly a year! It tends to piss you off.
My grandfather used to "Why do they bury dead farmers only six inches under the ground? So they can still put a hand out."
I tried Mozilla 5.0 (Build 2002041711) and got this:
"Microsoft®.NET Passport no longer supports the Web browser version you are using. Please upgrade to a current Web browser, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer version 4.0 or later, or Netscape Navigator version 4.08 or later."
OK I see the duplicate story but what the hell happened to the story on Hotmail changing user's prefs? It was at the top(approx. 11:30Eastern, May 16, '02) and then it disappeared!
Yeah that'll be good, put a back-up copy of your brain on a multi-terabyte(or larger) storage media and then forget about it and leave it in your car on a hot summer day. Oh! My brain back-up is in my car!
BTW How do you back up a exo-byte, with an Iomega exo-drive?
What's up with Constellation 3D and those other guys who are developing TB capable disks? Anyone get it to market yet or soon? C3D said on their website that they had an HD-TV recorder working and displayed at a treade show it but I haven't seen anything about it yet.
I mean if you make it so cheap that it's like if your CD-ROM drive bites it, do you repair it? No, you buy a new one because it isn't worth the time and expense to repair it. That would be modular. But I guess if it does go you're stuck without a system. Maybe you could buy a six pack of processors.:-P Or one big RAM chip with everything as software, Transmeta Crusoe 2015?
Maybe someday we'll see it. Maybe one unit for the mobo/cpu/memory/OS...
When, do you think, will we see processors with the main memory built in? I mean you may as well stuff it when you get it, it'll make it cheaper because we'll all get the same thing. Or is that just too far fetched an idea? ie. The new 2.5GHz with 4GB RAM right on the CPU. Hunh? Maybe it'll get rid of all this crap surrounding buying or trying to match RAM to...whatever!!!!
Hey I barely (barley is yummy) remember Max Headroom, not that I'm young(33) but didn't he start by some guy going face first into a toll booth arm thing...what do you call those things? It said "Max Headroom" on it. Shouldn't he be called Moordaeh Xam? Sounds like an Indian superhero...
Watch out Delhi here comes Moordaeh Xam! Bollywood should make a movie about that.:-P
I know! And that arrogant planet Saturn has the nerve to show off!! Those rings around it how long have they been there??...millions, billions of years??? Someone should put Saturn in it's place. Damn you Saturn!!!
The Canadian Discovery Channel had a program on about such a thing, in the show the referred to it as the "Cascade Effect." One piece of debris hit another that made three or more then those pieces hit more and so on.
Yeah I know a tired old phrase. Perhaps in the United States, a country that seems to be involved all over the world, more emphasis should be places on world history and world cultures in education.
I bet any of you from the US don't even know what city is the capital of Canada your closest neighbour and ally. You should know.
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"coin-operated policy dispenser" lol...love that.
Why and how bugs eat diesel
Nearly all military vehicles, with the exception of aircraft, use diesel as fuel, but kerosene is not that different anyway. Anyone who is around large amounts of it knows that it's a constant struggle to keep "bugs" out of it so they don't consume it or clog fuel filters, you have to put additives in to kill them. What fantastic high-tech bio-weapon is needed when it's already happening?
Nova had something on once about how mold spores travel, they are in the upper atmosphere and have even been found in space! The point was they are still alive after all that, so a little ice, UV radiation and a near vacuum wouldn't hurt them on Mars.
You know that was the first thing I thought when I read the article, was someone who lost vision in an eye, but then as I read it I realized that it's better than most 3D displays because you don't need special glasses. Wasn't the big point, the excitement, the breakthrough of the thing that you don't need special 3D glasses to view the image? So even with one eye you could see an object in the sphere, not depth but still...objects. It's still a pretty cool display.
It won't work everyone will think there's a football game going on under it and run to it. Oi!
Won't the terrorists notice the big shadow on the ground? Ba da bing!
How can you take a soldier seriously when he sounds like Mickey Mouse(the helium). Doh!
Some kid(ie. American) with a gun will shoot it down. *pop* fzzzzz..... Johnny's Mother: "Johnny stop shooting down those nice soldiers in the balloons they don't like that!" Hary har har!
How can it be taken seriously when everyone make jokes about it? ouch!
*tap tap* Is this thing on?
I live in rural Canada. I know where food comes from, my back yard.
There's help and then there's outright politics.
When you pay a farmer not to grow food, something is wrong.
I didn't intend to go off on a rant but...
We grow potatoes here, in 2000 one corner of a field had seven potaotes infected with something called Potato Wart, the US government banned shipments from here and threatened other provinces that if they accepted them they would suffer the consequences. Even though we proved in the lab that it was safe. The US government even used our labs to help them when they had the same problem. Our guys are good for getting the US off but not for our own farmers(ironic). Even worse is that several states had this exact same disease yet no action was taken by the US and our idiotic government.
BTW I'm not a farmer, my grandfather was. I know so much because it was in the god damn paper every day for nearly a year! It tends to piss you off.
My grandfather used to "Why do they bury dead farmers only six inches under the ground? So they can still put a hand out."
If you're bored you can read about it.
I tried Mozilla 5.0 (Build 2002041711) and got this:
.NET Passport no longer supports the Web browser version you are using. Please upgrade to a current Web browser, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer version 4.0 or later, or Netscape Navigator version 4.08 or later."
"Microsoft®
OK I see the duplicate story but what the hell happened to the story on Hotmail changing user's prefs? It was at the top(approx. 11:30Eastern, May 16, '02) and then it disappeared!
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Maybe if the government didn't give $180 billion to farmers then a mission to Mars would be possible. I know let's send the farmers to Mars.
Yeah that'll be good, put a back-up copy of your brain on a multi-terabyte(or larger) storage media and then forget about it and leave it in your car on a hot summer day. Oh! My brain back-up is in my car!
BTW How do you back up a exo-byte, with an Iomega exo-drive?
What's up with Constellation 3D and those other guys who are developing TB capable disks? Anyone get it to market yet or soon? C3D said on their website that they had an HD-TV recorder working and displayed at a treade show it but I haven't seen anything about it yet.
Potato starch is also used, look here
A few people here need a good bitch slap!
He's Scottie! He's a hero.
I mean if you make it so cheap that it's like if your CD-ROM drive bites it, do you repair it? No, you buy a new one because it isn't worth the time and expense to repair it. That would be modular. But I guess if it does go you're stuck without a system. Maybe you could buy a six pack of processors. :-P Or one big RAM chip with everything as software, Transmeta Crusoe 2015?
Maybe someday we'll see it. Maybe one unit for the mobo/cpu/memory/OS...
When, do you think, will we see processors with the main memory built in? I mean you may as well stuff it when you get it, it'll make it cheaper because we'll all get the same thing. Or is that just too far fetched an idea? ie. The new 2.5GHz with 4GB RAM right on the CPU. Hunh? Maybe it'll get rid of all this crap surrounding buying or trying to match RAM to...whatever!!!!
Does Uranus have two small moons around it?
... or Screw-you Packards, Bankrupt-in-60-days, Spewey Crapart...
Is there any point in going to Verisign and Whois-ing the spam source? I do.
Hey I barely (barley is yummy) remember Max Headroom, not that I'm young(33) but didn't he start by some guy going face first into a toll booth arm thing...what do you call those things? It said "Max Headroom" on it. Shouldn't he be called Moordaeh Xam? Sounds like an Indian superhero... :-P
Watch out Delhi here comes Moordaeh Xam! Bollywood should make a movie about that.
I know! And that arrogant planet Saturn has the nerve to show off!! Those rings around it how long have they been there?? ...millions, billions of years??? Someone should put Saturn in it's place. Damn you Saturn!!!
The Canadian Discovery Channel had a program on about such a thing, in the show the referred to it as the "Cascade Effect." One piece of debris hit another that made three or more then those pieces hit more and so on.
Yeah I know a tired old phrase.
Perhaps in the United States, a country that seems to be involved all over the world, more emphasis should be places on world history and world cultures in education.
I bet any of you from the US don't even know what city is the capital of Canada your closest neighbour and ally.
You should know.
Flying Cars? look right here