I'm just waiting for the first "Terrorist Pride" march.
I'd suggest you watch it on the TV when and if it ever happens.
While a threat list "hosting" everyone everywhere and still having "threat levels" may seem ridiculous and/or impossible to an intelligent, well-read individual - to a troglodyte with a truncheon doing what he's told such a list is a very useful tool.
For example, should you just be held for a while when crossing borders or strip-searched. Should an accident or a burglary that happens to you be investigated promptly or are you actually the prime suspect looking to cash in on your insurance. Is it OK to pick you up from your place in broad daylight or is it better to do it late at night when you are already in your bed. Alone or with backup. Calmly with the display of authority or quietly displaying nothing.
Wonderful tool - the list. So useful, yet so simple.
Sure, I'll probably go on a government watch list, but the way things are going we either all already are or soon will be, so why should that be a discouragement?
Because the list is probably numbered, graded and color-coded?
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Alaska's Mount Redoubt volcano erupted four times overnight, sending an ash plume more than 9 miles high into the air, but the state's largest city has likely been spared from any ashfall. "The ash cloud went to 50,000 feet, and it's currently drifting toward the north, northeast," said Janet Schaefer, a geologist with the Alaska Volcano Observatory.
The first eruption, in a sparsely area across Cook Inlet from the Kenai Peninsula, occurred at 10:38 p.m. Sunday and the fourth happened at 1:39 a.m. Monday, according to the observatory.
The wind patterns were taking the ash cloud away from Anchorage, toward Willow and Talkneetna, near Mount McKinley, North America's largest mountain in Denali National Park. Geophysicist John Power said no cities have yet reported any ash fall from the volcano, but noted that it was still early. Using radar and satellite technology, the National Weather Service is predicting ash to start falling later Monday morning.
Dave Stricklan, a hydrometeorogical technician with the National Weather Service, expected very fine ash. "Just kind of a light dusting," he said. He said the significant amount of ash probably dropped immediately, right down the side of the volcano. "The heavier stuff drops out very quickly, and then the other stuff filters out. There's going to be a very fine amount of it that's going to be suspended in the Atmosphere for quite some time, but nothing to really affect anything such as aviation travel. The heavier stuff will filter out," he said.
Still, Alaska Airlines on Monday canceled 19 flights in and out of the Anchorage international airport because of the ash. Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage told only essential personnel to report to work. The Air Force says 60 planes, including fighter jets, cargo aircraft and a 747 commercial plane, are being sheltered.
The 10,200-foot Redoubt Volcano, roughly 100 miles southwest of Anchorage, last erupted during a four-month period from 1989-90. But the volcano became restless earlier this year. The observatory had warned in late January that an eruption could occur at any time. Increased earthquake activity over the past 48 hours prompted scientists to raise the alert level for Mount Redoubt on Sunday. On Sunday morning, 40 to 50 earthquakes were being recorded every hour. A steam plume rising about 1,000 feet above the mountain peak was observed Saturday.
...can you also sit and lean back while wearing that jacket or do you have to stand still with your hands to the sides like in the TFA? Or will that break the actuators.
Right... You know, there are reasons it is not done by putting 3 miles of coil vertically into the earth.
First of all... when you are drilling to the depth of several miles we are talking holes whose diameter is measured in centimeters.
So, that coil you would dump down such a hole must be: - hollow - so water can flow through it, - bendable enough to be a coil in the first place, - strong enough to support its own weight (all 3 miles length of it) - strong enough not to explode when you pump pressurized cold water through it that will be rapidly heated deep down, - hermetically closed - unless you want to deal with calcium deposits inside the coil after couple of days.
And all that packed in a coil of about MAYBE 30 centimeters loop-diameter.
Plus, after maybe 30 years of use - you have to give it a rest for a decade or so - for the ground to recoup the lost heat.
Do you really want them to dominate sun, wind, and water technologies instead?
...you mean that they would do that by building a Dyson sphere around the Sun and painting a huge Shell logo on it?
That would be AWESOME! Hell... even a Dyson ring would be like "Check it out Milky Way! Type II CIV in the making here! YOU are next baby, you ARE next! We're coming for ya!".
Switzerland's seismological institute said the new tremor was caused by the soundings for the country's first geothermal power plant, which involve injecting pressurised water more than 5,000 metres (three miles) underground. The local parliamentarian and mayor of neighbouring Saint Louis in France, Jean Ueberschlag, wrote to Swiss authorities recently demanding that the project be halted. "You don't have the right to play around with the safety of our populations," he complained. Geopower, the company heading the "Deep Heat Mining" pilot project in Basel, stopped work last month after it acknowledged that its soundings were causing the earth to move.
Geothermal is nice and easy when you have geysers or volcanoes that pump that power to the surface for you (like in Iceland) - almost all you need to do to harvest it is lay down the pipes. But when you try to "dig it up" yourself... that is a whole new ballgame.
As the example above shows - pumping cold water three miles into earth beneath your feet MAY not be such a smart idea.
"All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner and the publisher."
Incidentally - it is also interesting to point out that it is printed and bound in China. By adequately payed and humanely treated Chinese workers. Probably. Maybe.
It was written and printed to be sold for MONEY. Not because someone woke up one morning and said to themselves "My-my... world could sure use a book about that free piece of software, and who better than me to write it - ME an Expert in writing such books.".
And if you want something sold for money, by people who sell such things - you go with the most common copyright. If you want to sell the book yourself or let your friends sell it for you - you go with whichever license you like.
Do you know how many american babies they will have to sacrifice per square inch of that road? I didn't think so!/sarcasm
Hey... how about the view-point that Microsoft is actually paying for half of that road - which WILL NOT BE MICROSOFT PROPERTY ONCE BUILT. Or... the fact that it appears that the community actually needs that overpass.
Easing Congestion
The city of Redmond says the overpass will relieve congestion on other streets and support a big employer in the region, though one cutting jobs lately. Microsoft said in January that it's eliminating as many as 5,000 jobs, including some from its Seattle-area workforce of 41,480.
"This project is a mobility improvement for the area as a whole," said Lou Gellos, a spokesman for Microsoft. An existing bridge a few blocks away is congested and a nightmare for pedestrians and bicycle riders, he said.
... just check that eff.org link before the last in the summary:
iLounge sums up what this means for consumers:
This is, in short, a nightmare scenario for long-time iPod fans: are we entering a world in which Apple controls and taxes literally every piece of the iPod purchase from headphones to chargers, jacking up their prices, forcing customers to re-purchase things they already own, while making only marginal improvements in their functionality? It's a shame, and one that consumers should feel empowered to fight.
I don't know why... but cluelessness of iPhans never seizes to amuse me.
Just a couple of nights ago, I was thinking about something similar. Not "where's my knife?" but regarding prosthetic limbs.
Why are researchers out there trying to recreate five-fingered prosthetic hands when for example three-fingered hand could do most things you need thumbs for? Two extra fingers could be used for detachable USB drives, bluetooth communication with a "palm-computer" built into the hand, mobile phone, mp3 and video players...
Talk to the hand could get a whole new meaning...
It's been done already...
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Jimmy the Saint tried something similar - only with videotapes.
Ended up in debt, owing money to the local gangster who hired him to "do a job" to pay off the debt. Naturally, things went south, and Jimmy and his crew ended up being killed one by one by hired hitmen.
According to Guimard the move to open source has also helped to reduce maintenance costs. Keeping GNU/Linux desktops up to date is much easier, he says. "Previously, one of us would be travelling all year just to install a new version of some anti virus application on the desktops in the Gendarmerie's outposts on the islands in French Polynesia. A similar operation now is finished within two weeks and does not require travelling.
Aaah... government work. Not only do they find an exceptionally complicated way to solve a simple problem - they don't know when to keep their mouth shut when it goes in their favor. Traveling around French Polynesian islands updating anti-virus software for living?
Why yes. It is MUCH better to sit in some windowless room instead.
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That was one AWESOME opening ceremony, wasn't it?
...that watching a sitcom will solve anything. Even one as popular as Friends.
An really... wasn't Joey more popular than Chandler?
After all... As TSA states - there is a world market for maybe five smartphones.
I'm just waiting for the first "Terrorist Pride" march.
I'd suggest you watch it on the TV when and if it ever happens.
While a threat list "hosting" everyone everywhere and still having "threat levels" may seem ridiculous and/or impossible to an intelligent, well-read individual - to a troglodyte with a truncheon doing what he's told such a list is a very useful tool.
For example, should you just be held for a while when crossing borders or strip-searched.
Should an accident or a burglary that happens to you be investigated promptly or are you actually the prime suspect looking to cash in on your insurance.
Is it OK to pick you up from your place in broad daylight or is it better to do it late at night when you are already in your bed.
Alone or with backup.
Calmly with the display of authority or quietly displaying nothing.
Wonderful tool - the list. So useful, yet so simple.
Sure, I'll probably go on a government watch list, but the way things are going we either all already are or soon will be, so why should that be a discouragement?
Because the list is probably numbered, graded and color-coded?
His power must be over 9000!
...you're despicable.
Did you even know there was an addition to the space station before it was on The Colbert Report? I didn't.
Leave your geek card and slashdot ID at the door.
It's a imaginary place in the Simon & Garfunkel song.
Kinda like Shangri-La, El-Dorado, Hobbiton or New Zealand.
Jebus is gonna save me.
Or Xenu... One of those guys anyway...
NOT from TFA:
The www.techworld.com.au blog link in the summary is broken. It is missing couple of "s" letters.
Here is a working link:
http://www.techworld.com.au/blog/broadbandvoice/2009/03/acmas_blacklist_a_bigots_battleground
...can you also sit and lean back while wearing that jacket or do you have to stand still with your hands to the sides like in the TFA?
Or will that break the actuators.
Is that Slashdot-worthy?
Can we have a story about that? I'll even provide photos and video.
And you could view that in ANY browser. Ain't THAT something?
My nose does what no browser could ever do. It is clearly superior.
Right... You know, there are reasons it is not done by putting 3 miles of coil vertically into the earth.
First of all... when you are drilling to the depth of several miles we are talking holes whose diameter is measured in centimeters.
So, that coil you would dump down such a hole must be:
- hollow - so water can flow through it,
- bendable enough to be a coil in the first place,
- strong enough to support its own weight (all 3 miles length of it)
- strong enough not to explode when you pump pressurized cold water through it that will be rapidly heated deep down,
- hermetically closed - unless you want to deal with calcium deposits inside the coil after couple of days.
And all that packed in a coil of about MAYBE 30 centimeters loop-diameter.
Plus, after maybe 30 years of use - you have to give it a rest for a decade or so - for the ground to recoup the lost heat.
Do you really want them to dominate sun, wind, and water technologies instead?
...you mean that they would do that by building a Dyson sphere around the Sun and painting a huge Shell logo on it?
That would be AWESOME!
Hell... even a Dyson ring would be like "Check it out Milky Way! Type II CIV in the making here! YOU are next baby, you ARE next! We're coming for ya!".
http://www.energy-daily.com/reports/Swiss_Geothermal_Drilling_Upsets_Neighbours_999.html
FTA:
Geothermal is nice and easy when you have geysers or volcanoes that pump that power to the surface for you (like in Iceland) - almost all you need to do to harvest it is lay down the pipes.
But when you try to "dig it up" yourself... that is a whole new ballgame.
As the example above shows - pumping cold water three miles into earth beneath your feet MAY not be such a smart idea.
Good one.
Nope... It is ye good olde:
Even the "downloadable sample chapter"
Incidentally - it is also interesting to point out that it is printed and bound in China.
By adequately payed and humanely treated Chinese workers. Probably. Maybe.
It was written and printed to be sold for MONEY.
Not because someone woke up one morning and said to themselves "My-my... world could sure use a book about that free piece of software, and who better than me to write it - ME an Expert in writing such books.".
And if you want something sold for money, by people who sell such things - you go with the most common copyright.
If you want to sell the book yourself or let your friends sell it for you - you go with whichever license you like.
Admit it - you pussies have no balls to admit what you really use a hand-held screen for.
Here is a collection of plugins that I am certain true iLovers will find very handy.
Particularly during the course of talking/writing about how great the new iWhatever truly is.
...blackjack and hookers would also be involved somehow?
It's Micro$oft!!!!11eleven!
Do you know how many american babies they will have to sacrifice per square inch of that road? /sarcasm
I didn't think so!
Hey... how about the view-point that Microsoft is actually paying for half of that road - which WILL NOT BE MICROSOFT PROPERTY ONCE BUILT.
Or... the fact that it appears that the community actually needs that overpass.
Easing Congestion
The city of Redmond says the overpass will relieve congestion on other streets and support a big employer in the region, though one cutting jobs lately.
Microsoft said in January that it's eliminating as many as 5,000 jobs, including some from its Seattle-area workforce of 41,480.
"This project is a mobility improvement for the area as a whole," said Lou Gellos, a spokesman for Microsoft.
An existing bridge a few blocks away is congested and a nightmare for pedestrians and bicycle riders, he said.
... just check that eff.org link before the last in the summary:
iLounge sums up what this means for consumers:
This is, in short, a nightmare scenario for long-time iPod fans:
are we entering a world in which Apple controls and taxes literally every piece of the iPod purchase from headphones to chargers, jacking up their prices, forcing customers to re-purchase things they already own, while making only marginal improvements in their functionality?
It's a shame, and one that consumers should feel empowered to fight.
I don't know why... but cluelessness of iPhans never seizes to amuse me.
Just a couple of nights ago, I was thinking about something similar. Not "where's my knife?" but regarding prosthetic limbs.
Why are researchers out there trying to recreate five-fingered prosthetic hands when for example three-fingered hand could do most things you need thumbs for?
Two extra fingers could be used for detachable USB drives, bluetooth communication with a "palm-computer" built into the hand, mobile phone, mp3 and video players...
Talk to the hand could get a whole new meaning...
Jimmy the Saint tried something similar - only with videotapes.
Ended up in debt, owing money to the local gangster who hired him to "do a job" to pay off the debt.
Naturally, things went south, and Jimmy and his crew ended up being killed one by one by hired hitmen.
Give it a name.
According to Guimard the move to open source has also helped to reduce maintenance costs.
Keeping GNU/Linux desktops up to date is much easier, he says.
"Previously, one of us would be travelling all year just to install a new version of some anti virus application on the desktops in the Gendarmerie's outposts on the islands in French Polynesia.
A similar operation now is finished within two weeks and does not require travelling.
Aaah... government work.
Not only do they find an exceptionally complicated way to solve a simple problem - they don't know when to keep their mouth shut when it goes in their favor.
Traveling around French Polynesian islands updating anti-virus software for living?
Why yes. It is MUCH better to sit in some windowless room instead.