perhaps the Hamilton Spectator photographer only released those two pics at a low resolution. Maybe to see a higher res version one would need to contatct said photographer directly. No need for a photoshop or fraud conspiracy.
I am the same order of magnitude as you Ian. And I have less IT experience than any of you.:) I happened to be a technical writer for a h/w manufacturer when I joined up... Haven't got around to quitting these parts entirely. - Another Ian
You said: "Not really, because "the aisle" is just an illusion created by The Conspiracy!"
There is so much disinformation, misinformation and just plain wrong information about so much of the way the world actually works it is a wonder that anything ever gets accomplished. David Icke, Norman Dodds, John Kaminski and yes Alex Jones all point to similar villains. Are they correct? If they are right - and world events certainly are explained better by their tales, than by the mainstream media / academic / religious entities - this world is far more fscked up than your auntie ever knew. Global warming will be the least of our troubles. Watch America: From Freedom to Facism, watch Terror Storm, google up some Icke lectures. Just who are all those Halliburton-built camps for?
On a more prosaic level, high altitude injection of jet fuel and its combustion byproducts can not be good for the general health of the planet. Montrously huge drift nets taking 95% of vertebrate life in the top 50 feet of miles of the ocean can not be good for the planet. Dumping 80% of humanity's sewage with little if any treatment into rivers and ocean's can not be good for the planet. Is there the political will to change any of those habits? For most of the people on this planet, day-to-day survival precludes them from having any say, or even interest, whatsoever in any of those filthy habits.
If the Masters are in control, they are doing a heck of a job profiting from despair, poverty, war and destruction. They aren't here to protect the planet or us. What do you propose to do about *that*?
Why is this moderated flamebaitj or (now) troll? Is it because of this statement? "I remember when slashdot used to post news. You know, 'news for nerds. stuff that matters'? Lately, the tagline might as well change to Slashdot: "Some idiot posted this somewhere on the web. We'll ride their coat tails."
As another early member of the slashdot community, I couldn't agree more with that statement. That is not flamebait. That is a fact. Hands up, how many four and five digit members agree with daVinci and ionizer?
I remain a non-paid member mostly because I started out that way and schadenfreude the paid subscription folks. The quality of this space's science has been a joke since the turn of the century. I am guessing (since I don't care to research the matter) the editors are a variety of volunteer whose paid jobs consist mostly of saying "would you like fires with that?"
But/. remains entertaining nonetheless. Occasionally it has pearls such as this particular thread.
Funnily enough, I had eggs and spam this morning for breakfast. And wonderful Spam it was too! Eggs, Spam, potatoes and Spam (sotto voce - (dictionary.com) spam spam spam spam spam spam spam SPAMDIDDY SPAM!!
You state, "a 2- or 3-sided die made by my suggested method..." Excuse me, but what plane of existence do you live in? Are you are saying one could grind a glass marble into a plane one molecule thick and call it a die? There is no such thing as a two sided die. The minimum number of surfaces of a regular polygonal solid is four. Please show me a three sided die, or especially a two sided die that has no depth (or thickness).
I think it would be very bad if one were living close to Yellowstone and having the impact close to the caldera. Put in the values for 2004MN4 at a distance of 50 km. Assume it is a density of 2600 kg/m3, hits the lake of 30m depth and at an angle of 50 degrees. The effects are quite devastating without having factored in the effects on such an impact on Yellowstone's caldera.
Now, if you put in a density of 6000 kg, it gets really interesting!
yabbut, if there isn't enough demand for the ported product, who is going to develop the ported product? Sorry, but Windoze is the OS of choice for many engineers and scientists because that is the OS that programs have been developed for. We may not like it, but we also have no choice in the matter. I like to eat and it costs money to eat and the way I earn money is using tools such as powerlogger. Which the developer has no interest in porting to Linux or the Mac.
What computing JOB can be done in Windows that can't be doen s well or better by a Mac or Linux? Powerlogger for one. It is a well logging software package that only runs on windows. Those of us who are "rock doctors" are pretty well restricted to running windoze.
OK, here is a reply to your article with a joke that involves sex. Pick me! Pick me!!
A 54-year-old accountant leaves a letter for his wife one evening which read: "Dear Wife, I am 54 years old, and by the time you get this letter I will be at the Grand Hotel with my beautiful and sexy eighteen year old secretary."
When he arrived at the hotel, there was a letter waiting for him that read as follows: "Dear Husband, I too am 54 years old, and by the time you receive this letter I will be at the Savoy Hotel with my eighteen year old toy boy. Because you are an accountant, you will surely appreciate that l8 goes into 54 many more times than 54 goes into 18."
It is "boooring" because it is a story brought to us by "Timothy." As usual he oversells the article and the item. Who hires these guys who call themselves "editors" anyway?
If one performs a search on "Echelon intelligence gathering" at Google, it results in "about 29" results. The number of real articles about *this* Echelon system is somewhere in between 29 and 397,000. Let's say 78,000 and move along.
Today's New York Times has an article linking to images derived from infrared laser measurements taken from a plane orbiting 5,000 ft ASL. The link is the first one in the "multimedia" box.
Slashdot Mirror
perhaps the Hamilton Spectator photographer only released those two pics at a low resolution. Maybe to see a higher res version one would need to contatct said photographer directly. No need for a photoshop or fraud conspiracy.
I am the same order of magnitude as you Ian. And I have less IT experience than any of you. :) I happened to be a technical writer for a h/w manufacturer when I joined up... Haven't got around to quitting these parts entirely.
- Another Ian
You said: "Not really, because "the aisle" is just an illusion created by The Conspiracy!"
There is so much disinformation, misinformation and just plain wrong information about so much of the way the world actually works it is a wonder that anything ever gets accomplished. David Icke, Norman Dodds, John Kaminski and yes Alex Jones all point to similar villains. Are they correct? If they are right - and world events certainly are explained better by their tales, than by the mainstream media / academic / religious entities - this world is far more fscked up than your auntie ever knew. Global warming will be the least of our troubles. Watch America: From Freedom to Facism, watch Terror Storm, google up some Icke lectures. Just who are all those Halliburton-built camps for?
On a more prosaic level, high altitude injection of jet fuel and its combustion byproducts can not be good for the general health of the planet. Montrously huge drift nets taking 95% of vertebrate life in the top 50 feet of miles of the ocean can not be good for the planet. Dumping 80% of humanity's sewage with little if any treatment into rivers and ocean's can not be good for the planet. Is there the political will to change any of those habits? For most of the people on this planet, day-to-day survival precludes them from having any say, or even interest, whatsoever in any of those filthy habits.
If the Masters are in control, they are doing a heck of a job profiting from despair, poverty, war and destruction. They aren't here to protect the planet or us. What do you propose to do about *that*?
Why is this moderated flamebaitj or (now) troll? Is it because of this statement? "I remember when slashdot used to post news. You know, 'news for nerds. stuff that matters'? Lately, the tagline might as well change to Slashdot: "Some idiot posted this somewhere on the web. We'll ride their coat tails."
As another early member of the slashdot community, I couldn't agree more with that statement. That is not flamebait. That is a fact. Hands up, how many four and five digit members agree with daVinci and ionizer?
I remain a non-paid member mostly because I started out that way and schadenfreude the paid subscription folks. The quality of this space's science has been a joke since the turn of the century. I am guessing (since I don't care to research the matter) the editors are a variety of volunteer whose paid jobs consist mostly of saying "would you like fires with that?"
/. remains entertaining nonetheless. Occasionally it has pearls such as this particular thread.
But
Funnily enough, I had eggs and spam this morning for breakfast. And wonderful Spam it was too! Eggs, Spam, potatoes and Spam (sotto voce - (dictionary.com) spam spam spam spam spam spam spam SPAMDIDDY SPAM!!
Really, no really. I did!
You state, "a 2- or 3-sided die made by my suggested method..." Excuse me, but what plane of existence do you live in? Are you are saying one could grind a glass marble into a plane one molecule thick and call it a die? There is no such thing as a two sided die. The minimum number of surfaces of a regular polygonal solid is four. Please show me a three sided die, or especially a two sided die that has no depth (or thickness).
Two links that will answer your questions. Look at the pretty pictures describing the cloud of probabilities.
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news146.html
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/2004mn4.html
An interesting page to play with is here: http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/impacteffects/
I think it would be very bad if one were living close to Yellowstone and having the impact close to the caldera. Put in the values for 2004MN4 at a distance of 50 km. Assume it is a density of 2600 kg/m3, hits the lake of 30m depth and at an angle of 50 degrees. The effects are quite devastating without having factored in the effects on such an impact on Yellowstone's caldera.
Now, if you put in a density of 6000 kg, it gets really interesting!
yabbut, if there isn't enough demand for the ported product, who is going to develop the ported product? Sorry, but Windoze is the OS of choice for many engineers and scientists because that is the OS that programs have been developed for. We may not like it, but we also have no choice in the matter. I like to eat and it costs money to eat and the way I earn money is using tools such as powerlogger. Which the developer has no interest in porting to Linux or the Mac.
What computing JOB can be done in Windows that can't be doen s well or better by a Mac or Linux? Powerlogger for one. It is a well logging software package that only runs on windows. Those of us who are "rock doctors" are pretty well restricted to running windoze.
OK, here is a reply to your article with a joke that involves sex. Pick me! Pick me!!
A 54-year-old accountant leaves a letter for his wife one evening which read: "Dear Wife, I am 54 years old, and by the time you get this letter I will be at the Grand Hotel with my beautiful and sexy eighteen year old secretary."
When he arrived at the hotel, there was a letter waiting for him that read as follows: "Dear Husband, I too am 54 years old, and by the time you receive this letter I will be at the Savoy Hotel with my eighteen year old toy boy. Because you are an accountant, you will surely appreciate that l8 goes into 54 many more times than 54 goes into 18."
It is "boooring" because it is a story brought to us by "Timothy." As usual he oversells the article and the item. Who hires these guys who call themselves "editors" anyway?
Speaking of content the link to your demos page (http://www.markwatson.com/demos.php) is 404. You might want to work on your content...
Cheers!
Can we take a vote now and move on to "real" issues regarding yro? In addition how does one moderate an article to "useless" and fire the /. editor?
If one performs a search on "Echelon intelligence gathering" at Google, it results in "about 29" results. The number of real articles about *this* Echelon system is somewhere in between 29 and 397,000. Let's say 78,000 and move along.
87.8% of statistics are made up.
oh no! The link you give has expired and can not be found. Run for the hills, they are on to you!
Today's New York Times has an article linking to images derived from infrared laser measurements taken from a plane orbiting 5,000 ft ASL. The link is the first one in the "multimedia" box.