Good idea; we've got that covered long ago. A sizeable piece of land, a herd of chickens, a flock of goats & a school of horses. Up to now, all these have been consuming money, giving just some eggs, amusement and riding fun in return.
I'm not too keen on subsistence living though. I really cannot find any interest in living through an ugly depression. A depression is just that, depressing. Very depressing. I don't see that how, if you've lived a good life, and are accustomed to things getting better, you can manage to keep on meddling through without any hope for an upturn ?
Let alone the daunting carnage that will surely follow as suburbanites and city dwellers start to starve and invade the surrounding farmland.
The only objection I have would be the time frame. Two years is a really short time. People tend to overestimate the immediate effects and underestimate the long term effects.
Government is cueless. Economists keep telling them that if the price goes up, demand will curve and production will increase. Yeah, as if oil is something that keeps on bubbling out of the ground effortlessly.
I hate alternative energy, not because it is insignificant, but because it diverts attention from real solutions. Like the airline "security", it's not even a bandaid, it's a blindfold.
Meanwhile my egoistic ass is flying around like there is no tomorrow, grabbing while the grabbing is good. Can't take the experience away from me.
Absolutely. I have planned an international flight with both source and drain outside the US, and I have explicitly avoided using US airlines, even if they were a bit cheaper.
The false security (that stupid dialog when you check in) didn't balance the discomfort of time lost and the risk of delayed luggage caused by a transit in the US.
The security buzz everywhere is getting ridiculous. Never before people have been so safe as they are now, and yet they are trying harder and harder to turn the 'security' dial past it end stop.
I, for one, don't welcome our security overlords, and prefer spending my life in joy than being scared to death by monsters under the bed.
I said 'take care'. That was a well-meant advice, not an insult. If it came over any other way, I apologize for not being more explicit.
If anything negative is to be found between the lines of my reply, it's my feeling toward manufacturers that sell buses as if they were cars, without properly informing the owners of their widely different handling characteristics.
They are trying to sell a non-controlling 10% of their business for 3B$ while they have given away the same amount, AND 'FORGOT' THAT THEY DID.
Playing fast and loose with other peoples money is a recipe for disaster. Anyone buying GOOG shares should know that his money goes directly into unclean hands.
I'm wondering how many will get burned on this scam.
How much you may appreciate Google's search service now, this is a different ball game and as an outsider you have no idea how it's played. Stay away. My uninvested 2ct.
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That's how I tried too. Scares the hell out of kids, but it hasn't helped my experiments. Another approach is in order, but I haven't found out which - yet. I am 100% sure it IS possible.
a) That's exactly what the fool is thinking. b) Speed limits ARE wrong. Speed limits were recently lowered in Belgium. Were they wrong before, or are they wrong now ? If they were wrong before, that proves that speed limits can be wrong. If they're wrong now, they are either too high or too low. My guess is they are too low, but if I'm wrong, maybe the speed limits will finally be right when they are eventually lowered to zero ? c) Oh yes, it absofuckinglutely does. d) Oh yes, it psychologically helps everyone giving middle fingers. Take that innocent relief away, and you'll see a more damaging kind of road rage.
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Well, well, learn something new every day. I just watched in the mirror while tilting my head, and the eyes (the iris patterns) indeed try to stay horizontal, unless the angle gets too large.
I didn't know that; I thought the brain corrected for the rotation. But it explains why I'm able to rotate them at will. The muscles are there, it was just a matter of finding out how to control them.
Oh yes, Belgium. Ruled by bureaucrats, pensioners and welfare kings&queens who have nothing more else to do with their time than hindering the remaining 10% of the population that still have a productive job, and that have to work their asses off to pay taxes so that the former three groups can continue their relaxed and pampered lifestyle.
Since the speed limits were lowered (from 90km/h to 70, and from 60 to 30) I lose 20 minutes per day extra in traffic. That's 8 (eight) full working days over the course of a year. Don't bullshit me that driving slower has zero effect on travel times.
BTW take care not to roll your top-heavy bus over. A friend of mine killed his two childs that way.
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Same here. One of my eyes has an ever so slightly yellower tint.
As to choosing the dominant eye, I can switch at will between both eyes, and I do this even automatically when reading a wide 23" monitor from left to right. Yet I have perfect 3D vision, and have no trouble looking cross-eyed at side by side 3D (near) or anaglyphs (far).
I'm still trying to move my eyes independently. So far I can rotate one eye slightly around the Z-axis, giving two images that are not offset, but rotated relatively to each other.
The funny thing is that when I try to explain all this to others (laymen...), they just stare back. They say that if they just cross their eyes they immediately get a headache. Pussies.
IFR in an R22/R44 ? No way. Our R44 has dual horizons and other redundancies, but IFR it ain't though you _can_ pretend to do IFR for training.
Your advise of buying an used Robinson is a good one. Get one who has 200-500 hours and 2-3 years time left before overhaul; that should give you ample private flying time. If you like it, you can overhaul it, or rinse & repeat.
There you have it. It's an English king, whose name starts with an E and whose ordinal is one. Clicking on the link is left as an exercise for the reader.
In my beloved country, a man was sentenced to a year in prison because he had gunned some of his neighbour's wild-roaming chickens, *after said neighbour had agreed*.
The sentence was later reversed, and the judge moved to another court, but still... Just think about the grief this verdict has caused to the chicken killer on the loose and his family.
If I have been physically busy all day I just cannot sleep. I feel cosy and tired, but cannot sleep. I need lots of mental activity during the day to be able to sleep.
Less caffeine:
I barely drink coffee during the week-end, but drink lots during weekdays. No effect whatsoever on sleeping patterns.
Need 8 hours/day:
I get by with 4-5 hours. If I sleep longer than that, my sleep gets completely disturbed after a few days, and I need to stay up really late for a few days to get things in order.
Take a bath/shower before going to sleep:
That only wakes me up even more. A sure way of having a restless night.
What does work:
Mental activity during the day and evening, staying up really late and reading in bed for 1/2 - 1 hour until I start reading the same paragraph over and over again. I put the book away, and fall fast asleep.
I've got the same problem. I'm wearing contact lenses but have a high (-12) diopter myopia in both eyes. Even though perfectly adapted lenses give me a 20/20 eyesight, I cannot qualify. I've considered getting implants, but then regulations say that you cannot qualify if your correction *before the operation* was above the limit, even if you have perfect uncorrected 20/20 after.
This is silly. I agree with tough standards, but they should check the actual vision (day&night) of the pilot, and not bother with how that was accomplished.
MP3 support just the "cost of entry" ? If they hadn't offred MP3 support, I guess they would have sold only 10%.
I'm very curious, if you'd be able to inspect the contents of all iPodii in use, what the ratio of MP3 to AAC would be. I'd be flabberghasted if it would be below 400%. My ratio is infinity - there is not a single AAC file on my iPod.
The answers to your question are successively: - the same thing - yes - no - anything - yes - yes - no - no - no - yes - no - between 1 day and 100 years
What I do in post-production is manually look for the 20-50 or so highest peaks that occur in a 4 minute recording when bad luck aligns the peaks of the contributing sounds. I measure the peak amplitude excluding these peaks.
Then, I carefully select a part of the wave that produces the peak (from a zero-crossing somewhere before the peak to a zero-crossing somewhere after) and lower its amplitude to match the reduced peak amplitude determined in the first step. The 'shape' of the changed part is retained very well because no hard clipping ocurs. Only the rise time suffers leading to less energy in the higher harmonics.
Finally, I normalize the entire wave. I typically gain 3-6dB with excellent results.
It's a labor-intensive process though so I'll need to try to implement a heuristic Cool Edit filter - some day.
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I guess you've just made a typo, but I guess you could call Sergey and Larry 'confounders':
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So I was trolling, heh ?
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It's starting to sink in. Gone are the $135+ 'valuations':
http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/tech/georgemannes
Good idea; we've got that covered long ago. A sizeable piece of land, a herd of chickens, a flock of goats & a school of horses. Up to now, all these have been consuming money, giving just some eggs, amusement and riding fun in return.
I'm not too keen on subsistence living though. I really cannot find any interest in living through an ugly depression. A depression is just that, depressing. Very depressing. I don't see that how, if you've lived a good life, and are accustomed to things getting better, you can manage to keep on meddling through without any hope for an upturn ?
Let alone the daunting carnage that will surely follow as suburbanites and city dwellers start to starve and invade the surrounding farmland.
Well put.
The only objection I have would be the time frame. Two years is a really short time. People tend to overestimate the immediate effects and underestimate the long term effects.
Government is cueless. Economists keep telling them that if the price goes up, demand will curve and production will increase. Yeah, as if oil is something that keeps on bubbling out of the ground effortlessly.
I hate alternative energy, not because it is insignificant, but because it diverts attention from real solutions. Like the airline "security", it's not even a bandaid, it's a blindfold.
Meanwhile my egoistic ass is flying around like there is no tomorrow, grabbing while the grabbing is good. Can't take the experience away from me.
Absolutely. I have planned an international flight with both source and drain outside the US, and I have explicitly avoided using US airlines, even if they were a bit cheaper.
The false security (that stupid dialog when you check in) didn't balance the discomfort of time lost and the risk of delayed luggage caused by a transit in the US.
The security buzz everywhere is getting ridiculous. Never before people have been so safe as they are now, and yet they are trying harder and harder to turn the 'security' dial past it end stop.
I, for one, don't welcome our security overlords, and prefer spending my life in joy than being scared to death by monsters under the bed.
I said 'take care'. That was a well-meant advice, not an insult. If it came over any other way, I apologize for not being more explicit.
If anything negative is to be found between the lines of my reply, it's my feeling toward manufacturers that sell buses as if they were cars, without properly informing the owners of their widely different handling characteristics.
They are trying to sell a non-controlling 10% of their business for 3B$ while they have given away the same amount, AND 'FORGOT' THAT THEY DID.
Playing fast and loose with other peoples money is a recipe for disaster. Anyone buying GOOG shares should know that his money goes directly into unclean hands.
I'm wondering how many will get burned on this scam.
How much you may appreciate Google's search service now, this is a different ball game and as an outsider you have no idea how it's played. Stay away. My uninvested 2ct.
That's how I tried too. Scares the hell out of kids, but it hasn't helped my experiments. Another approach is in order, but I haven't found out which - yet. I am 100% sure it IS possible.
Why ? Because that fool is hindering others.
a) That's exactly what the fool is thinking.
b) Speed limits ARE wrong. Speed limits were recently lowered in Belgium. Were they wrong before, or are they wrong now ? If they were wrong before, that proves that speed limits can be wrong. If they're wrong now, they are either too high or too low. My guess is they are too low, but if I'm wrong, maybe the speed limits will finally be right when they are eventually lowered to zero ?
c) Oh yes, it absofuckinglutely does.
d) Oh yes, it psychologically helps everyone giving middle fingers. Take that innocent relief away, and you'll see a more damaging kind of road rage.
Well, well, learn something new every day. I just watched in the mirror while tilting my head, and the eyes (the iris patterns) indeed try to stay horizontal, unless the angle gets too large.
I didn't know that; I thought the brain corrected for the rotation. But it explains why I'm able to rotate them at will. The muscles are there, it was just a matter of finding out how to control them.
Oh yes, Belgium. Ruled by bureaucrats, pensioners and welfare kings&queens who have nothing more else to do with their time than hindering the remaining 10% of the population that still have a productive job, and that have to work their asses off to pay taxes so that the former three groups can continue their relaxed and pampered lifestyle.
Since the speed limits were lowered (from 90km/h to 70, and from 60 to 30) I lose 20 minutes per day extra in traffic. That's 8 (eight) full working days over the course of a year. Don't bullshit me that driving slower has zero effect on travel times.
BTW take care not to roll your top-heavy bus over. A friend of mine killed his two childs that way.
Same here. One of my eyes has an ever so slightly yellower tint.
As to choosing the dominant eye, I can switch at will between both eyes, and I do this even automatically when reading a wide 23" monitor from left to right. Yet I have perfect 3D vision, and have no trouble looking cross-eyed at side by side 3D (near) or anaglyphs (far).
I'm still trying to move my eyes independently. So far I can rotate one eye slightly around the Z-axis, giving two images that are not offset, but rotated relatively to each other.
The funny thing is that when I try to explain all this to others (laymen...), they just stare back. They say that if they just cross their eyes they immediately get a headache. Pussies.
There's something Tolkienish about "The Fixing Of The Hubble", but I just can't put my finger on it.
IFR in an R22/R44 ? No way. Our R44 has dual horizons and other redundancies, but IFR it ain't though you _can_ pretend to do IFR for training.
Your advise of buying an used Robinson is a good one. Get one who has 200-500 hours and 2-3 years time left before overhaul; that should give you ample private flying time. If you like it, you can overhaul it, or rinse & repeat.
There you have it. It's an English king, whose name starts with an E and whose ordinal is one. Clicking on the link is left as an exercise for the reader.
In my beloved country, a man was sentenced to a year in prison because he had gunned some of his neighbour's wild-roaming chickens, *after said neighbour had agreed*.
The sentence was later reversed, and the judge moved to another court, but still... Just think about the grief this verdict has caused to the chicken killer on the loose and his family.
Physical exercise during the day/evening:
If I have been physically busy all day I just cannot sleep. I feel cosy and tired, but cannot sleep. I need lots of mental activity during the day to be able to sleep.
Less caffeine:
I barely drink coffee during the week-end, but drink lots during weekdays. No effect whatsoever on sleeping patterns.
Need 8 hours/day:
I get by with 4-5 hours. If I sleep longer than that, my sleep gets completely disturbed after a few days, and I need to stay up really late for a few days to get things in order.
Take a bath/shower before going to sleep:
That only wakes me up even more. A sure way of having a restless night.
What does work:
Mental activity during the day and evening, staying up really late and reading in bed for 1/2 - 1 hour until I start reading the same paragraph over and over again. I put the book away, and fall fast asleep.
I've got the same problem. I'm wearing contact lenses but have a high (-12) diopter myopia in both eyes. Even though perfectly adapted lenses give me a 20/20 eyesight, I cannot qualify. I've considered getting implants, but then regulations say that you cannot qualify if your correction *before the operation* was above the limit, even if you have perfect uncorrected 20/20 after.
This is silly. I agree with tough standards, but they should check the actual vision (day&night) of the pilot, and not bother with how that was accomplished.
MP3 support just the "cost of entry" ?
If they hadn't offred MP3 support, I guess they would have sold only 10%.
I'm very curious, if you'd be able to inspect the contents of all iPodii in use, what the ratio of MP3 to AAC would be. I'd be flabberghasted if it would be below 400%. My ratio is infinity - there is not a single AAC file on my iPod.
The answers to your question are successively:
- the same thing
- yes
- no
- anything
- yes
- yes
- no
- no
- no
- yes
- no
- between 1 day and 100 years
HTH
A bit like a piano concert where the sheet music is reproduced by hammering and sawing a brand new 9' Steinway Concert Grand D into pieces.
Try reproducing that performance with your cheap electronic piano. It won't sound the same !
What I do in post-production is manually look for the 20-50 or so highest peaks that occur in a 4 minute recording when bad luck aligns the peaks of the contributing sounds. I measure the peak amplitude excluding these peaks.
Then, I carefully select a part of the wave that produces the peak (from a zero-crossing somewhere before the peak to a zero-crossing somewhere after) and lower its amplitude to match the reduced peak amplitude determined in the first step. The 'shape' of the changed part is retained very well because no hard clipping ocurs. Only the rise time suffers leading to less energy in the higher harmonics.
Finally, I normalize the entire wave. I typically gain 3-6dB with excellent results.
It's a labor-intensive process though so I'll need to try to implement a heuristic Cool Edit filter - some day.
link.
Oh yes, even with the soon-to-be-removed braces. She's a bitch, though. I'd recommend waiting a few years to let her calm down a little bit.
lol. Funniest reply in weeks !