Or you could just automate your VoIP program to call them every 30 seconds. Rack up the bills and annoy the hell out of them.
Here is what you do. Set up your VoIP software to redial every 30 seconds after the call is disconnected, and everytime they pick up, play the following recording:
"Your call is very important to us...please stay on the line for the next available representative." mix this message up in your winamp or XMMS playlist every minute or so to the worst collection of muzak, cheesy porno music or elevator music you can find (easy listening station?). Be sure to play this message or one similar to it aeveral times per song, so they know how important they are to you!
I've heard that email is considered better than postal.
I would be quite interested to know the source of that, please let me know.
Postal mail is slow, bulky, and needs to be terrorist-proofed
exactly, bulky is the key word there. snail mail is bulky and has weight, much more than a few bits and bytes. As for the terrorist proofing, I thought they had already figured that one out.
Prolly the best measure would be to email, USPS mail and call your Rep.
The reality is that Email will only go so far as to swaying opinion, and the truth is, it doesn't go very far (unless the slashdot effect really works in this matter). Snail mail, fax or even calling their office on the other hand will get a LOT more mileage with your congressmen. Avoid using form letters since they will get treated more like spam, instead, write it out in your own words.
This is simply due to the fact that a member of congress has to handle physical letters (or pay a staffer to do it) and it can have much more of an impact. All is takes is a machine to sift and sort through email since it will just get forwarded to a box based on a keyword search or something of the sort.
Think of it another way: How much effort are you willing to put forth to contact your representative or senator? How much effort does the named have to put forth to actually see and listen to or even respond to your effort and opinion?
I'm afraid it will be a long time before the opposite is true.
...That way, some uneducated terrorists from The Great Wherever won't get new ideas using Google keyword searches like "explosives", "bombs", "nukes"...
Your analogy seems sound. Here is some more food for thought:
Think about the human host and how Ebola spreads itself around through the cardiovascular system. However, in the computer world, when you think about how the cardiovascular system more resembles the central nervous system in terms of speed, wouldn't the entire world be considered one host?
That's a lot gadgets, just for a run. Mp3 & cellphone can be combined these days.
Ironically enough, the Motorola V60s I just got (yeah, it's cheap, but it can do MIDI ringtones and it was a buy-one-get-one-free offer) has a mp3 player or FM tuner accessory. I just can't see what use I would have for another mp3 player. Back to my point, most new cellphones tout the aGPS (assisted GPS) feature when you first turn them on or in the manuals for location "$ervice$" or for Enhanced911. Now I understand that aGPS uses a combination of the satellite constellations and also triangulates using the cell phone towers to get a quicker TTFF (time to first fix) around 10 seconds, even though the resolution is relatively low at around 45 meters. However, what I don't understand is why the phone manufacturers or service providers don't include any software to display the GPS info in cartesian coordinates. That would be much more of a selling feature to offer this.
Anyways, if anyone knows of any projects out there to be able to translate the fucked up coordinate system that these phones display when you dig deep into the programming, myself and MANY others out there could save a nice $300 or so for the cost of a dedicated GPS receiver.
What to I mean by fucked-up coordinates? Here is an example of what my phone displays at my current location at this moment:
LATITUDE - 298139:15:36 LONGITUDE - 47:37:12
First one to translate it and find me wins a dozen doughnuts! ok, not really, but how about my undying admiration. That won't work either? How about a million bucks for the software you write and patent and license to carriers? Oh wait, I forgot, the/. crowd is at odds with the USPTO.
Or, you could piss off all the cellphone carriers by releasing the software for free on SourceForge. Ooo, that would be a lot more gratifying...
funny thing, Night Train always puts me to sleep. Or was that MadDog 20/20? Either way, I wake up in the morning with a splitting headache and I can never figure out why. Maybe it's that damn air-horn after all.
I agree with most saying this will not work, but even more. This WILL cause more accidents and the lawsuits against San Francisco by both citizens and insurance companies is going to shoot through the roof.
Listening to the differences in the different types of speakers and monitors working at a Guitar Center over the holidays, I was blown away by the sound quality of some of the studio monitors in their Pro-Audio department, and then comparing them to the high-end home-theater gear at the Magnolia Hi-fi just down the street.
You will get a lot more bang for your buck with a good set of monitors while only taking fraction of the space. Check out the Event TR series or M-Audio's line. Most decent music equipment stores like Guitar Center should have some demos.
Not around here you won't. King County Library System requires your library card as a login. I am pretty sure most other libraries around the country work the same way or will very soon.
Did they say what kind of thermal conductivity this layer would have? If it was low, then try this on for size:
While having this layer of molecules on the surface, rig up an array of thermoelectric modules (Peltier elements) to conduct the heat that would be trapped on the water and use it to generate enough electricity to be able to drive the water pumps or whatever. I don't know how feasable this would be though since from what I hear the efficiency isn't the greatest in the world...
Don't forget that Locke and friends decided to have most of the counties in the Puget Sound region vote on that referendum...even the counties that would not even remotely be affected by the building a new bridge (like Whatcom county). The vote tally by the cities and counties to the west of the Bridge who would be the most impacted by a $3+ toll, like Gig Harbor or Bremerton voted vastly against it by around 80%. However the weasles who wrote the referendum in order to get that big contract included the more populus areas like King and Snohomish counties who didn't give a shit since they never used the bridge 40+ miles south, and voted it in.
Fucking liberals... >:(
Now I can only imagine that places like Gig Harbor and Bremerton are going to only explode in growth due to relocation and protest for getting this tax rammed up their ass by an out-of-touch state government. And they don't even have the infrastructure to support such growth.
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Here is what you do. Set up your VoIP software to redial every 30 seconds after the call is disconnected, and everytime they pick up, play the following recording:
"Your call is very important to us...please stay on the line for the next available representative." mix this message up in your winamp or XMMS playlist every minute or so to the worst collection of muzak, cheesy porno music or elevator music you can find (easy listening station?). Be sure to play this message or one similar to it aeveral times per song, so they know how important they are to you!
Fight fire with fire, I say.
I always thought the life-sized hamster ball would be more effective...and if you did get hit, it sure would be a lot funnier for spectators to watch.
Traffic soccer(football), anyone?
Well they already make DSP cards for audio processing. Simply do a google(TM) search for "DSP card" and you will get several vendors.
I can't imagine it would take a whole lot to hack them for just their processing power outside of audio applications.
I've heard that email is considered better than postal.
I would be quite interested to know the source of that, please let me know.
Postal mail is slow, bulky, and needs to be terrorist-proofed
exactly, bulky is the key word there. snail mail is bulky and has weight, much more than a few bits and bytes. As for the terrorist proofing, I thought they had already figured that one out.
Prolly the best measure would be to email, USPS mail and call your Rep.
The reality is that Email will only go so far as to swaying opinion, and the truth is, it doesn't go very far (unless the slashdot effect really works in this matter). Snail mail, fax or even calling their office on the other hand will get a LOT more mileage with your congressmen. Avoid using form letters since they will get treated more like spam, instead, write it out in your own words.
This is simply due to the fact that a member of congress has to handle physical letters (or pay a staffer to do it) and it can have much more of an impact. All is takes is a machine to sift and sort through email since it will just get forwarded to a box based on a keyword search or something of the sort.
Think of it another way: How much effort are you willing to put forth to contact your representative or senator? How much effort does the named have to put forth to actually see and listen to or even respond to your effort and opinion?
I'm afraid it will be a long time before the opposite is true.
...That way, some uneducated terrorists from The Great Wherever won't get new ideas using Google keyword searches like "explosives", "bombs", "nukes"...
What? You mean like Al Qaeda getting caught trying to reproduce something from the Journal of Irreproducible Results?
Your analogy seems sound. Here is some more food for thought:
Think about the human host and how Ebola spreads itself around through the cardiovascular system. However, in the computer world, when you think about how the cardiovascular system more resembles the central nervous system in terms of speed, wouldn't the entire world be considered one host?
I expect the scientists responses, if questioned about what this closed-box dark-matter detector detects and how it detects it will be:
"Move along, nothing to see here"
Soon after, the MiB will come rolling in your driveway and
NO CARRIER
first ten after windows:
1. Windows updates
2. Audigy and Detonator drivers
3. Winamp
4. StudioMX
5. Photoshop (since I don't have the desire to learn FireworksMX yet)
6. Wacom drivers
7. Gordian Knot
8. FL Studio
9. Office 2000
10. Halo
That's a lot gadgets, just for a run. Mp3 & cellphone can be combined these days.
/. crowd is at odds with the USPTO.
Ironically enough, the Motorola V60s I just got (yeah, it's cheap, but it can do MIDI ringtones and it was a buy-one-get-one-free offer) has a mp3 player or FM tuner accessory. I just can't see what use I would have for another mp3 player. Back to my point, most new cellphones tout the aGPS (assisted GPS) feature when you first turn them on or in the manuals for location "$ervice$" or for Enhanced911. Now I understand that aGPS uses a combination of the satellite constellations and also triangulates using the cell phone towers to get a quicker TTFF (time to first fix) around 10 seconds, even though the resolution is relatively low at around 45 meters. However, what I don't understand is why the phone manufacturers or service providers don't include any software to display the GPS info in cartesian coordinates. That would be much more of a selling feature to offer this.
Anyways, if anyone knows of any projects out there to be able to translate the fucked up coordinate system that these phones display when you dig deep into the programming, myself and MANY others out there could save a nice $300 or so for the cost of a dedicated GPS receiver.
What to I mean by fucked-up coordinates? Here is an example of what my phone displays at my current location at this moment:
LATITUDE - 298139:15:36
LONGITUDE - 47:37:12
First one to translate it and find me wins a dozen doughnuts! ok, not really, but how about my undying admiration. That won't work either? How about a million bucks for the software you write and patent and license to carriers? Oh wait, I forgot, the
Or, you could piss off all the cellphone carriers by releasing the software for free on SourceForge. Ooo, that would be a lot more gratifying...
funny thing, Night Train always puts me to sleep. Or was that MadDog 20/20? Either way, I wake up in the morning with a splitting headache and I can never figure out why. Maybe it's that damn air-horn after all.
I agree with most saying this will not work, but even more. This WILL cause more accidents and the lawsuits against San Francisco by both citizens and insurance companies is going to shoot through the roof.
Listening to the differences in the different types of speakers and monitors working at a Guitar Center over the holidays, I was blown away by the sound quality of some of the studio monitors in their Pro-Audio department, and then comparing them to the high-end home-theater gear at the Magnolia Hi-fi just down the street.
You will get a lot more bang for your buck with a good set of monitors while only taking fraction of the space. Check out the Event TR series or M-Audio's line. Most decent music equipment stores like Guitar Center should have some demos.
...a beowulf^H^H^H^H^H^H^H RAID cluster^H^H^H^H^H^H^H array of these in an ipod!
OW! STOP HITTING ME!! THE VOICES MADE ME DO IT!
Not around here you won't. King County Library System requires your library card as a login. I am pretty sure most other libraries around the country work the same way or will very soon.
Did they say what kind of thermal conductivity this layer would have? If it was low, then try this on for size:
While having this layer of molecules on the surface, rig up an array of thermoelectric modules (Peltier elements) to conduct the heat that would be trapped on the water and use it to generate enough electricity to be able to drive the water pumps or whatever. I don't know how feasable this would be though since from what I hear the efficiency isn't the greatest in the world...
No beowulf cluster jokes please...
That IP made a HUGE difference. When I try and ping www.google.com, it resolves to 207.44.220.30. Anyone think the DNS name got hijacked?
Thanks a bunch for that working IP
I have not been able to get to Google for the last week or so. I have checked all the usual suspects like BHO's and other malware...
Sorry for the offtopic post.
Has anyone else out there been having problems accessing Google or Altavista?
I have not been able to get searches from either one of them for almost a week.
I am amazed that this is the first goatse.cx troll I have seen that actually made it to the front page.
Timothy, did you even click the link before deciding that it was worthy for the rest of us?
Should I start worrying about you know, or later when you try to use this like a Chinese water-torture ritual on someone else?
Let me put this in another perspective...$5 for a peep show or $500 for a hooker.
Don't forget that Locke and friends decided to have most of the counties in the Puget Sound region vote on that referendum...even the counties that would not even remotely be affected by the building a new bridge (like Whatcom county). The vote tally by the cities and counties to the west of the Bridge who would be the most impacted by a $3+ toll, like Gig Harbor or Bremerton voted vastly against it by around 80%. However the weasles who wrote the referendum in order to get that big contract included the more populus areas like King and Snohomish counties who didn't give a shit since they never used the bridge 40+ miles south, and voted it in.
Fucking liberals...
>:(
Now I can only imagine that places like Gig Harbor and Bremerton are going to only explode in growth due to relocation and protest for getting this tax rammed up their ass by an out-of-touch state government. And they don't even have the infrastructure to support such growth.
Or a whole new meaning to Edible Underwear?
It's called karma whoring