The only character who is morally ambiguous is Snape. I think it can be more interesting than that.
Well I would have to say that the Malfoys could be seen as somewhat morally ambiguous, at least Narcissa, and a little less so, Draco. Probably not Lucius.
Narcissa is the one who is asked by Voldemort to check on Harry, and make sure he is dead. She whispers to him while checking on him, asking if her son is still OK and in the castle. Harry whispers back that he is, and Narcissa stands up and announces Harry is dead. This probably saves him from being checked by someone else, someone who would have run him through with a knife or whatnot. It is self serving in a way, she just wants her son safe, but she does act in a way to save Harry (for a little while longer anyway).
Draco cannot bring himself to outright identify Harry and his friends when they are first brought to Malfoy Manor, he keeps saying things like "maybe, yeah" and such. During the big battle he does try to get the Death Eaters to recognize him, saying he is on their side. Back in book 6 HBP, he couldn't bring himself to outright kill Dumbledore, as Dumbledore himself predicted and counted on, and saying Draco's soul is not yet so torn as to be capable of that. So he does more flip-flopping, but you can see there is at least some struggle internally.
Reading the deeper linked article from the top linked article, which is:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=17949/
It does not specifically mention the "free" snotmail account gets 2GB.
Reading M$N's page about it,
http://www.imagine-msn.com/hotmail/en-us/
it looks like the M$N Plus accounts will get 2GB, which means the ones you pay $19.95/mo for. This is NOT the free snotmail account getting 2GB. These will get 250MB. Not GB, MB.
Jeez the/. editors need to do a little more fact checking eh? But/. editors actually RTFA??? Naaaahhhhh.
Google is still ahead in the actual FREE email storage space war. 100MB for Yahoo, 250MB for M$N.... so, anyone got gmail beta invites?;)
As for books, look around the ARRL site, they have a vast collection of good books.
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73 de K6LNX
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I am a member of Orange County Amateur Radio Club - www.w6ze.org. We are holding our Field Day at Portola Park in Santa Ana, on Santa Clara Ave.
Just look for the big antennas;).
I attended my first Field Day last year, and it was a blast. I am a Technician, so I can't normally operate on HF. But at Field Day you can operate HF with all the Generals and Extras around as control operators.
As for all the naysayers, who say that Ham Radio is dead, come out to a Field Day site and see what all these "dead people" are doing, with their "dead equipment" on the "dead ham bands".
For those that haven't yet seen what Field Day is about, find a local club in your area and check it out. Have fun!
Hey fellow Ham Slashdotters-
(Not that many that I can see though....
where are all the Linux-Ham geeks? I know the linux-hams mailing list is pretty busy... are you all just not the/. type? heh)
This was my first Field Day and it was quite fun.
I sort of did a double shift- I visited the MESAC site in Costa Mesa with my GF in the wee hours of Sunday morning, then I went to the site of one of the local clubs I am in, OCARC Orange County Amateur Radio Club for the rest of the day, and also helped them with teardown. (I am in So. CA)
The most fun part for me really was to be able to operate on several different bands with really nice equipment (that I couldn't afford yet) on usually really cool beam antennas (that I couldn't afford yet) within a short period of time.
Not many people can say they have a nice beam antenna and full size, full power radio for almost every Ham band in the spectrum- but during Field Day that's usually what you have, all packed nicely in a 1000' circle;-).
I actually made quite a few contacts once I got the hang of it, the longest distance was to a station in British Columbia, I am in Southern CA.
This brings up another point, it is good for us to demonstrate to the public (in CA especially) that if the power winks out, you can still talk, via ham radio!
For those that don't know what this Field Day hoopla was all about, its basically this:
Drill/Simulation of Emergency communications, running from power sources OTHER than on the commercial mains (such as generators, car batteries, solar, NiCD battery pacs, etc)
Contest, see how many stations you can contact within the 24h period
Demonstration to the public about what Ham radio is, and what it can do (public services, especially in emergency, but also for special events such as marathons & parades etc; as well as the technical aspect- all the cool goodies)
All in all my 1st Field Day was quite fun and I definitely will do it again next year.
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73 de K6LNX
LinuxKnight
PS The K6LNX is my callsign (I hold a Technician class ham license), and in case you were wondering, yes, the LNX stands for LINUX! I'm a Linux and Ham geek and proud of it!
It is possible to obtain "vanity" callsigns from the FCC, only AFTER you already have a regular automatically assigned license. You submit a petition with up to 25 possible callsigns that you want, and you get the 1st one on your list that isn't already assigned to someone else. Luckily I got my first choice!
You can check to see if a callsign is "available" from Ham callsign databases such as www.qrz.com... but there might be other reasons a callsign isn't available at a certain time so you have to wait for word from the FCC itself.
Well you can organize them in alphabetical order
but that's not how they arrived.
Enterprise was first, it was the "prototype,"
used in test flights in 1977.
And yes it was named in honor of the Starship
Enterprise of Star Trek.
Then Columbia (first mission: 1981), the first to actually fly in space.
Then Challenger (first mission: 1983),
then Discovery (first mission: 1984),
then Atlantis (first mission: 1985),
then the lastest shuttle Endeavor (first mission: 1992).
IIRC It was sometimes called Phoenix, before its completion.
Here is the page where I got the shuttle chronology: http://www.spaceline.org/shuttlechron.html
We should all honor the memory of the crew of Challenger.
The special mini-magazine in the newspaper on Sundays, Parade, had a nice article on the Challenger Learning Centers, here is a link: http://www.challenger.org/clc/clc_netw_set.htm.
The families of the crew started this science learning center in honor of them.
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Well I would have to say that the Malfoys could be seen as somewhat morally ambiguous, at least Narcissa, and a little less so, Draco. Probably not Lucius. Narcissa is the one who is asked by Voldemort to check on Harry, and make sure he is dead. She whispers to him while checking on him, asking if her son is still OK and in the castle. Harry whispers back that he is, and Narcissa stands up and announces Harry is dead. This probably saves him from being checked by someone else, someone who would have run him through with a knife or whatnot. It is self serving in a way, she just wants her son safe, but she does act in a way to save Harry (for a little while longer anyway).
Draco cannot bring himself to outright identify Harry and his friends when they are first brought to Malfoy Manor, he keeps saying things like "maybe, yeah" and such. During the big battle he does try to get the Death Eaters to recognize him, saying he is on their side. Back in book 6 HBP, he couldn't bring himself to outright kill Dumbledore, as Dumbledore himself predicted and counted on, and saying Draco's soul is not yet so torn as to be capable of that. So he does more flip-flopping, but you can see there is at least some struggle internally.
RTFA... misleading /. headings strike again...
Reading the deeper linked article from the top linked article, which is: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=17949/ It does not specifically mention the "free" snotmail account gets 2GB.
Reading M$N's page about it, http://www.imagine-msn.com/hotmail/en-us/ it looks like the M$N Plus accounts will get 2GB, which means the ones you pay $19.95/mo for. This is NOT the free snotmail account getting 2GB. These will get 250MB. Not GB, MB.
Jeez the /. editors need to do a little more fact checking eh? But /. editors actually RTFA??? Naaaahhhhh.
Google is still ahead in the actual FREE email storage space war. 100MB for Yahoo, 250MB for M$N. ... so, anyone got gmail beta invites? ;)
This is an Amateur Radio satellite, so you need an Amateur Radio license to work it.
See www.arrl.org/hamradio.html
for a general overview of Ham radio.
Then you can set up your radios and antennas.
A page was referenced, but posted by an AC so its only at 0. Here's the link again: www.qsl.net/vk3jed/1st_sat.html
As for books, look around the ARRL site, they have a vast collection of good books.
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73 de K6LNX
I am a member of Orange County Amateur Radio Club - www.w6ze.org. We are holding our Field Day at Portola Park in Santa Ana, on Santa Clara Ave. Just look for the big antennas ;).
I attended my first Field Day last year, and it was a blast. I am a Technician, so I can't normally operate on HF. But at Field Day you can operate HF with all the Generals and Extras around as control operators.
As for all the naysayers, who say that Ham Radio is dead, come out to a Field Day site and see what all these "dead people" are doing, with their "dead equipment" on the "dead ham bands".
For those that haven't yet seen what Field Day is about, find a local club in your area and check it out. Have fun!
-----------
73 de K6LNX
(Not that many that I can see though....
where are all the Linux-Ham geeks? I know the linux-hams mailing list is pretty busy... are you all just not the
This was my first Field Day and it was quite fun. I sort of did a double shift- I visited the MESAC site in Costa Mesa with my GF in the wee hours of Sunday morning, then I went to the site of one of the local clubs I am in, OCARC Orange County Amateur Radio Club for the rest of the day, and also helped them with teardown. (I am in So. CA)
The most fun part for me really was to be able to operate on several different bands with really nice equipment (that I couldn't afford yet) on usually really cool beam antennas (that I couldn't afford yet) within a short period of time.
Not many people can say they have a nice beam antenna and full size, full power radio for almost every Ham band in the spectrum- but during Field Day that's usually what you have, all packed nicely in a 1000' circle
I actually made quite a few contacts once I got the hang of it, the longest distance was to a station in British Columbia, I am in Southern CA.
This brings up another point, it is good for us to demonstrate to the public (in CA especially) that if the power winks out, you can still talk, via ham radio!
For those that don't know what this Field Day hoopla was all about, its basically this:
All in all my 1st Field Day was quite fun and I definitely will do it again next year.
-------
73 de K6LNX
LinuxKnight
PS The K6LNX is my callsign (I hold a Technician class ham license), and in case you were wondering, yes, the LNX stands for LINUX! I'm a Linux and Ham geek and proud of it!
It is possible to obtain "vanity" callsigns from the FCC, only AFTER you already have a regular automatically assigned license. You submit a petition with up to 25 possible callsigns that you want, and you get the 1st one on your list that isn't already assigned to someone else. Luckily I got my first choice!
You can check to see if a callsign is "available" from Ham callsign databases such as www.qrz.com... but there might be other reasons a callsign isn't available at a certain time so you have to wait for word from the FCC itself.
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Well you can organize them in alphabetical order but that's not how they arrived.
Enterprise was first, it was the "prototype," used in test flights in 1977.
And yes it was named in honor of the Starship Enterprise of Star Trek.
Then Columbia (first mission: 1981), the first to actually fly in space.
Then Challenger (first mission: 1983),
then Discovery (first mission: 1984),
then Atlantis (first mission: 1985),
then the lastest shuttle Endeavor (first mission: 1992).
IIRC It was sometimes called Phoenix, before its completion.
Here is the page where I got the shuttle chronology:
http://www.spaceline.org/shuttlechron.html
We should all honor the memory of the crew of Challenger.
The special mini-magazine in the newspaper on Sundays, Parade, had a nice article on the Challenger Learning Centers, here is a link:
http://www.challenger.org/clc/clc_netw_set.htm.
The families of the crew started this science learning center in honor of them.