I prefer to use gasoline. Pour a cup into one end of the burrow. Cover and wait 30 minutes. Throw a match into the other end. Whoooosh. No rats. Gas is easy to get and no worse environmentally than my car. It kills ground hornets too.
Back in the 60s I was part of a program in our school district. The idea was to see how fast kids could read and still past comprehension tests. Kids who scored in the top 1% on aptitude tests could be part of the program. I was shown books a few grades above my current 5th grade level. The pages were projected and timed. The speed was increased until my test scores slipped below 80%. As I got better the speed was increased again and so on. After a while I was reading a page in 3 to 4 seconds. I could read a 100 page book in 5 minutes and pass a test on it. I have used the faster reading in math, science and computer classes ever since. It is useless for enjoying fiction. This drains all of the fun. I slow down to conversation speed for those kinds of books. It is like running through the Louvre.
Not to nitpick too much But for 3,000 punch cards to be 80k that would mean each card only had 28 columns.
3000 * 80 = 240,000 / 1024 = 234k
I think it's the 3,000 that is the wrong number. The original IBM 23FD was about 80k or about 1,000 80 column punch cards worth.
I used to do microcode updates on the mainframe at work. It was a huge pain and took forever. When the 5 1/4 disks came out it was Amazing!
I dumped cable about a year ago.
I made a digital antenna http://current.org/ptv/ptv0821make.pdf I live in an urban setting and get about 30 channels.
I use 4g wireless to a Cradlepoint router. That is about $25 US a month. Over that I get NetFlix, You Tube and whatever else I want. I have an HP laptop with HDMI out as a DVR and an LG BluRay with wifi.
Went from almost $200 U.S. a month for cable to about $40. I get HD Digital TV and like it just fine. I can't imagine gong back. The extra $160 a month would pay for a new DVD box set every month, but I haven't needed one. I just go to the movies more often.
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I prefer to use gasoline. Pour a cup into one end of the burrow. Cover and wait 30 minutes. Throw a match into the other end. Whoooosh. No rats. Gas is easy to get and no worse environmentally than my car. It kills ground hornets too.
Lovely card.. I have a few and they are fun to use. I will wait for more speed. I assume no SATA is a power problem. Is that true?
It isn't that I have nothing to Hide. That is a wrong premise. I have nothing to disclose. That is the right premise.
Back in the 60s I was part of a program in our school district. The idea was to see how fast kids could read and still past comprehension tests. Kids who scored in the top 1% on aptitude tests could be part of the program.
I was shown books a few grades above my current 5th grade level. The pages were projected and timed. The speed was increased until my test scores slipped below 80%. As I got better the speed was increased again and so on. After a while I was reading a page in 3 to 4 seconds. I could read a 100 page book in 5 minutes and pass a test on it.
I have used the faster reading in math, science and computer classes ever since. It is useless for enjoying fiction. This drains all of the fun. I slow down to conversation speed for those kinds of books. It is like running through the Louvre.
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I just had a flashback to 'Spaced Invaders'
Isn't that what they tell us? "If you're doing nothing wrong, then you should have nothing to hide"?
I agree, it isn't that I have nothing to 'Hide'. That is the wrong paradigm. I have nothing disclose or to share. Everyone has something to hide.
The have zero business looking at anything we do.
“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty.” (Benjamin Franklin)
“If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.” (James Madison)
They're heeeeere. (Carol Anne)
Not to nitpick too much But for 3,000 punch cards to be 80k that would mean each card only had 28 columns. 3000 * 80 = 240,000 / 1024 = 234k I think it's the 3,000 that is the wrong number. The original IBM 23FD was about 80k or about 1,000 80 column punch cards worth. I used to do microcode updates on the mainframe at work. It was a huge pain and took forever. When the 5 1/4 disks came out it was Amazing!
I dumped cable about a year ago. I made a digital antenna http://current.org/ptv/ptv0821make.pdf I live in an urban setting and get about 30 channels. I use 4g wireless to a Cradlepoint router. That is about $25 US a month. Over that I get NetFlix, You Tube and whatever else I want. I have an HP laptop with HDMI out as a DVR and an LG BluRay with wifi. Went from almost $200 U.S. a month for cable to about $40. I get HD Digital TV and like it just fine. I can't imagine gong back. The extra $160 a month would pay for a new DVD box set every month, but I haven't needed one. I just go to the movies more often.