Everything we touch turns to merd'. And eventually, when it fails, fingers will be pointed at the US as a "world tyrant". We should let the EU handle this one, by themselves. Or the Arab League
Guns? Hunting? Bah. The US is a pretty large country. I'd just move to the opposite coast. If California was hit by a tsunami, I'd dump as much stuff in my trunk as possible, and move to the East. Or vice-versa. Or maybe the middle part where the farmers have tons of food, and lots of generosity.
With such a large area, there's plenty of other places to move to, which are unaffected by the tragedy.
Yeah, the last time this happened was as recently as 2008, according to the article. The moon was five miles closer than it will be today.
It appears this event happens every 3 years of so. Not that big a deal. Astronomy is fun but I like my boss's attitude, when he goes telescope-gazing: "My neighbor's wife walks around naked and never closes the curtains. That's where the real show is at.";-)
I'd just use dialup (like the freebie connection provided by France). It's a perfectly acceptable means of transmitting photographs (a few seconds each). Even videos can be uploaded to youtube in 10 minutes or less.
>>>both seem to me to be pretty much closely connected
First Yellowstone is a VOLCANO not an earthquake. It doesn't have any connection to the Japanese or California tragedies. Second, it has been mentioned multiple times on cable channels like National Geographic, Discovery, and History.
Third, it only happens once every tens-of-thousands of years. Last time it happened, Mammoths were still the dominant species in america. (Man had not yet arrived.) Fourth it makes little sense to discuss an event that is predicted to happen circa 10,000 or 20,000 A.D. By that point human beings might have self-exterminated or developed forcefields to contain the blast.
And (babylon) Five..... if it did happen tomorrow, there's nothing you could do to prepare for it (like moving away). Yellowstone blowing-up would basically exterminate everyone in the US/Canada, unless you were lucky enough to live upwind of the event, like British Columbia, Yukon, or Alaska. Therefore no reason for government to "prepare" for something that cannot be escaped. Even if you lived in Europe, you can expect a "year without a summer" like happened when Krakatoa blew up & dimmed the sun.
Yellowstone Supervolcano is one of those events, like an asteroid strike, which really cannot be avoided, or prepared for. It has global impact.
How is this handled on the consoles? Do the programmers go direct to the hardware, as they did in the days of the N64 and PS1, or do the modern PowerPC-based consoles also have a DirectX-style interface?
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>>>It's not an ISP's duty to run a Usenet server.
They always have in the past. Providing a Usenet and Email server was part of the service, dating all the way to the early 90s. It's only recently that has changed.
But Isaac Asimov did: 500+. Even if he only made $9000 per book, that's about 7 per year, or $63,000. He'd be doing "better than a guy at McDonalds or Walmart". Approximately $30 an hour.
AMAZON: - Put the item in your shopping cart. Visit the site every few days, and you'll see it say, "This item's price has dropped". If it's a good deal, buy it.
Example: I got SG1 Complete for only $110.... about half what it would normally cost. Orville Redenbacher popcorn for $15/case or ~40 cents per bag. Nature Valley Granola Bars for 16 cents each. Sony HD Radio for $75.
EBAY, Amazon's Private Market - Most of the sellers advertise stuff as "new" when it's actually damaged/used goods. You can take advantage of that fact by asking for a 50% refund (item not as described). I rarely spend more than $5. Of course if the seller is honest and the game actually IS new, you still get a good deal.
>>>then the taxpayers bail the investment banks out
Guess you should have listened to Ron Paul and his Republican "liberty" caucus. They all voted "nay" to the $700 billion banker bailout bill, and it went down in flames. Mr. Paul said the banks, especially the investment ones like AIG, should be allowed to fail so we could rebuild the economy on their broken bones.
But then the Democrats revived the Banker Bailout Bill, bribed the republicans with pork for their districts, and it passed ~10 days later.:-( Frickin' fraggin' mumble.... grrrr! I tried to vote-out my representative for that idiocy, but alas he's still there.
>>>When advertisers say that you "save" money by taking advantage of a deal, they are altering reality.
If you are buying something you need, like money, and the advertiser gives you 50% off, then you are indeed saving money. Unfortunately most people buy things they don't need (shoes, that "cute dress", games, and other crap). Which is why the average American household is $120,000 in debt.
Plus another ~$140,000 national debt on top of it. The US is arguably the poorest first-world country - unable to repay what it owes.
>>>TV's don't sync to the power line. They convert incoming power to DC then work from that.
That is so horribly wrong. "The NTSC field refresh frequency in the black-and-white system originally exactly matched the nominal 60 Hz frequency of alternating current power used in the United States. Matching the field refresh rate to the power source avoided intermodulation (also called beating), which produces rolling bars on the screen......
"Synchronization of the refresh rate to the power incidentally helped kinescope cameras record early live television broadcasts, as it was very simple to synchronize a film camera to capture one frame of video on each film frame by using the alternating current frequency to set the speed of the synchronous AC motor-drive camera.....
"The actual figure of 525 lines was chosen as a consequence of the limitations of the vacuum-tube-based technologies of the day. In early TV systems, a master voltage-controlled oscillator was run at twice the horizontal line frequency, and this frequency was divided down by the number of lines used (in this case 525) to give the field frequency (60 Hz in this case). This frequency was then compared with the 60 Hz power-line frequency and any discrepancy corrected by adjusting the frequency of the master oscillator." - wiki
McCarthy was just a small piece of the puzzle. The House Un-american Activities Committee was the main power, and it was run by Democrats from 1945 to 1959. The Demo-run HUAC was also the source of the infamous Hollywood blacklist.
Here is what a friend told me (note he voted for Obama, and says he'd happily do it again). Not a direct quote.
The link is hysteria and not much detail. The Napster already establish free sharing of copyright material is a violation of copyright law. It's inconvenient if we want free stuff, but I don't see any legal basis that we should get free stuff."
Most people realize the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) act sucks, due to how it's used to spy on innocent americans. Likewise this wiretapping to catch people downloading songs, sucks.
>>>Feel free to speculate where the bottleneck is...
I have the same problem in the opposite direction: US hosts are fast for my US-based home, while European or Asian connections are slow. It's because of the multiple hops (i.e. distance).
It's also why Opera Turbo doesn't work properly for me. The inherent latency of loading data from a Norway proxy Negates any speed-up from the compressed webpage.
The Supreme Court ruled that the States who signed the Articles of Confederation may not leave, because the document promises a "perpetual" union. - Vermont and Texas are special cases because they never signed that contract. They are not bound to the Articles, or a perpetual union.
----- I wonder if any of the EU states decided to secede (like say, Poland) will there be a war or will they be allowed to go?
And what happens when your European neighbors are netflixing or bittorrenting at the same time, over the wireless internet? Does it slow to a crawl? That's what happens in the US.
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>>>they have a moral obligation to intervene when people are being killed for no apparent reason
Number of people dead in Iraq and Afghanistan, because the US had a "moral obligation" to act:
Around 200,000
Number of people dead if the US Army had done nothing:
~3000 (the people that died on 9/11)
The moral obligation is to do that which leads to the least amount of death. In most cases the answer is to do nothing, rather than to kill.
That's the first time I ever heard "morally bankrupt" described for someone who refuses to kill. Most be some neocon bullshit.
Nope.
But then I agree with the Swiss viewpoint on most things (stay neutral).
Everything we touch turns to merd'.
And eventually, when it fails, fingers will be pointed at the US as a "world tyrant". We should let the EU handle this one, by themselves. Or the Arab League
I thought Campaign Laws forbade giving more than $5000. How do they skirt around that rule?
What about the Nintendo Wii?
Gamecube API?
(ducks)
Guns? Hunting?
Bah.
The US is a pretty large country. I'd just move to the opposite coast. If California was hit by a tsunami, I'd dump as much stuff in my trunk as possible, and move to the East. Or vice-versa. Or maybe the middle part where the farmers have tons of food, and lots of generosity.
With such a large area, there's plenty of other places to move to, which are unaffected by the tragedy.
Yeah, the last time this happened was as recently as 2008, according to the article. The moon was five miles closer than it will be today.
It appears this event happens every 3 years of so. Not that big a deal. Astronomy is fun but I like my boss's attitude, when he goes telescope-gazing: "My neighbor's wife walks around naked and never closes the curtains. That's where the real show is at." ;-)
>>>Other ideas?
I'd just use dialup (like the freebie connection provided by France). It's a perfectly acceptable means of transmitting photographs (a few seconds each). Even videos can be uploaded to youtube in 10 minutes or less.
>>>both seem to me to be pretty much closely connected
First Yellowstone is a VOLCANO not an earthquake. It doesn't have any connection to the Japanese or California tragedies. Second, it has been mentioned multiple times on cable channels like National Geographic, Discovery, and History.
Third, it only happens once every tens-of-thousands of years. Last time it happened, Mammoths were still the dominant species in america. (Man had not yet arrived.) Fourth it makes little sense to discuss an event that is predicted to happen circa 10,000 or 20,000 A.D. By that point human beings might have self-exterminated or developed forcefields to contain the blast.
And (babylon) Five..... if it did happen tomorrow, there's nothing you could do to prepare for it (like moving away). Yellowstone blowing-up would basically exterminate everyone in the US/Canada, unless you were lucky enough to live upwind of the event, like British Columbia, Yukon, or Alaska. Therefore no reason for government to "prepare" for something that cannot be escaped. Even if you lived in Europe, you can expect a "year without a summer" like happened when Krakatoa blew up & dimmed the sun.
Yellowstone Supervolcano is one of those events, like an asteroid strike, which really cannot be avoided, or prepared for. It has global impact.
Since you seem knowledgeable:
How is this handled on the consoles? Do the programmers go direct to the hardware, as they did in the days of the N64 and PS1, or do the modern PowerPC-based consoles also have a DirectX-style interface?
Old news.
>>>It's not an ISP's duty to run a Usenet server.
They always have in the past. Providing a Usenet and Email server was part of the service, dating all the way to the early 90s. It's only recently that has changed.
>>>Obviously you've never written a book.
I have not.
But Isaac Asimov did: 500+. Even if he only made $9000 per book, that's about 7 per year, or $63,000. He'd be doing "better than a guy at McDonalds or Walmart". Approximately $30 an hour.
The best deals are on amazon and ebay:
AMAZON:
- Put the item in your shopping cart. Visit the site every few days, and you'll see it say, "This item's price has dropped". If it's a good deal, buy it.
Example: I got SG1 Complete for only $110.... about half what it would normally cost. Orville Redenbacher popcorn for $15/case or ~40 cents per bag. Nature Valley Granola Bars for 16 cents each. Sony HD Radio for $75.
EBAY, Amazon's Private Market
- Most of the sellers advertise stuff as "new" when it's actually damaged/used goods. You can take advantage of that fact by asking for a 50% refund (item not as described). I rarely spend more than $5. Of course if the seller is honest and the game actually IS new, you still get a good deal.
>>>then the taxpayers bail the investment banks out
Guess you should have listened to Ron Paul and his Republican "liberty" caucus. They all voted "nay" to the $700 billion banker bailout bill, and it went down in flames. Mr. Paul said the banks, especially the investment ones like AIG, should be allowed to fail so we could rebuild the economy on their broken bones.
But then the Democrats revived the Banker Bailout Bill, bribed the republicans with pork for their districts, and it passed ~10 days later. :-( Frickin' fraggin' mumble.... grrrr! I tried to vote-out my representative for that idiocy, but alas he's still there.
Ron Paul for President in 2016.
>>>When advertisers say that you "save" money by taking advantage of a deal, they are altering reality.
If you are buying something you need, like money, and the advertiser gives you 50% off, then you are indeed saving money. Unfortunately most people buy things they don't need (shoes, that "cute dress", games, and other crap). Which is why the average American household is $120,000 in debt.
Plus another ~$140,000 national debt on top of it. The US is arguably the poorest first-world country - unable to repay what it owes.
>>>TV's don't sync to the power line. They convert incoming power to DC then work from that.
That is so horribly wrong. "The NTSC field refresh frequency in the black-and-white system originally exactly matched the nominal 60 Hz frequency of alternating current power used in the United States. Matching the field refresh rate to the power source avoided intermodulation (also called beating), which produces rolling bars on the screen......
"Synchronization of the refresh rate to the power incidentally helped kinescope cameras record early live television broadcasts, as it was very simple to synchronize a film camera to capture one frame of video on each film frame by using the alternating current frequency to set the speed of the synchronous AC motor-drive camera.....
"The actual figure of 525 lines was chosen as a consequence of the limitations of the vacuum-tube-based technologies of the day. In early TV systems, a master voltage-controlled oscillator was run at twice the horizontal line frequency, and this frequency was divided down by the number of lines used (in this case 525) to give the field frequency (60 Hz in this case). This frequency was then compared with the 60 Hz power-line frequency and any discrepancy corrected by adjusting the frequency of the master oscillator." - wiki
Japan uses NTSC, which is based on 60 hertz. How does it work in East Japan's 50 hertz zone? Hmmm.
I guess this also means electronic manufacturers have to design their products to work with either 50 or 60 hertz.
McCarthy was just a small piece of the puzzle. The House Un-american Activities Committee was the main power, and it was run by Democrats from 1945 to 1959. The Demo-run HUAC was also the source of the infamous Hollywood blacklist.
Here is what a friend told me (note he voted for Obama, and says he'd happily do it again). Not a direct quote.
The link is hysteria and not much detail. The Napster already establish free sharing of copyright material is a violation of copyright law. It's inconvenient if we want free stuff, but I don't see any legal basis that we should get free stuff."
Most people realize the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) act sucks, due to how it's used to spy on innocent americans. Likewise this wiretapping to catch people downloading songs, sucks.
>>>Feel free to speculate where the bottleneck is...
I have the same problem in the opposite direction: US hosts are fast for my US-based home, while European or Asian connections are slow. It's because of the multiple hops (i.e. distance).
It's also why Opera Turbo doesn't work properly for me. The inherent latency of loading data from a Norway proxy Negates any speed-up from the compressed webpage.
The Supreme Court ruled that the States who signed the Articles of Confederation may not leave, because the document promises a "perpetual" union. - Vermont and Texas are special cases because they never signed that contract. They are not bound to the Articles, or a perpetual union.
----- I wonder if any of the EU states decided to secede (like say, Poland) will there be a war or will they be allowed to go?
>>>Not in Europe, not in Asia.
And what happens when your European neighbors are netflixing or bittorrenting at the same time, over the wireless internet? Does it slow to a crawl? That's what happens in the US.