We have had an ongoing speed problem down out street. At one point, I yelled "SLOW THE FUCK DOWN ASSHOLE". The kid stops. Backs up. I pick up the hefty baseball bat that was sitting at my neighbors house (we're outside drinking beer).
Tim says "Hold a sec" and yells out "Andrew, Don't you know the speed limit here"... he *knew* the kid- and I let them handle it. Kid promised to slow down. etc, etc.
1 week later, I see Andrew's TOTALLED car sitting out in front of Timmy's house. Turns out Andrew was kicked out of his home after demolishing his car by doing 57 in a 35 (I yelled at him for doing 47 in a 35- and yes, we had a speed-truck in front to show the numbers). Andrew was 18. I hope he's learned his lesson, but I don't have alot of faith.
Kodak did something similar with their professional papers. They embedded a recurrent pattern of dots in the blue channel (yellow dye) that could be seen on a scanner but was practically impossible to see with the naked eye. Hardware scanners then incorporated a 'tigger taggant' (It's been so long it could have been tiger taggants) detector and would lock out the user from printing the image unless a security override code was used. You couldn't defeat the mechanism by scanning it yourself, either, because unless you removed the blue channel dots it would still be present in the scanned image, and thus detected at printing (Such as at the XLS8500 Kiosk booths).
They eventually stopped doing so about 3 years ago, if memory serves, due to the increased cost of the paper. As you can imagine, pre-sensitization of the the paper with the taggants required unwinding the master rolls before cutting and significantly added to the cost.
1) Most of the people that made those purchases knew there was a bug- and they did it anyway. 2) The advertised special was buy one get one free, not buy two get both free.
Enron's executives did the same thing to millions of investors. Same thing- screw them all over by just a little bit... and take your profit.
Congratulations on displaying exactly what a "ME" society is. It's OK for that guy to lose money because he can afford it, whereas I need my Heineken to drink so I'll go loot it.
No, but if you make a mistake on the bank and don't sign a check, you have those funds deducted from your account, automatically. I've had it a few times happen where my wife hasn't signed a check that was made out to the two of us:
Here at the ME society, we don't give a fuck about anyone else- just ME. In fact, I only bought 50 of these sets and Ebay'd them to make a profit- and now my Profit is cut in half- so I'm doubly angry at this. Where does Amazon get off trying to ship Supposed Xmas presents before the End of the Year to make people happy- it's all about ME!
If this was your parent's store, you'd be pissed, they'd be broke, and they'd have to eat it. There's no magic 'Amazon' out there- there's a group of people that have invested in that store and have had their investments 'plundered' for people that took advantage of a bug/mistake. Anyone purchasing the items knew they were getting a YMMV deal and it was questionable whether or not it would be honored.
So what the Poster is whining about is: "I walked into a bank and saw a bag of money on the ground. I took the money, but was arrested for Felony Theft. Why can they do this".
Suck it up and start realizing that theft is theft no matter how you coach it in terms of a 'sale'.
A diet pepsi costs the following- can you match them up?
1) $1.00 2) $1.25 3) $1.39
with A) Work Vending Machine B) School Vending Machine C) Grocery Store
If you said 1-B, 2-A, and 3-C, you're Right!
What does that mean? Exploit the students. Get them addicted to soda, (We called it 'coke' where I come from and for good reason), profit insanely at their completely disposable income, and they'll continue to provide for you the rest of your corporate career!
This patent is sickening. Schools currently use IE, but as they switch to ad-blockable content (anything available for IE) then there is SO much profit-potential lost it's absurd.
We (I and several other individuals) mentor about 30 HS students. It is TRULY amazing how much their minds are like sponges- and how easy it can be to inadvertently modify their behavior. An unkind word, a stern glance, and the next thing you know they want nothing to do with that topic. It's insane. The mentors themselves end up having to walk this twisted line of professional dedication (our backgrounds) and playing psychologist ("How does that make you feel").
Let's face it- the whole point of this is about money, and cash is king. The brains are just too wired for this behaviour (Nestle's Chocobot hour) to be anything but profitable thru very specific programming.
They'll get the patent..... and it'll be up to us to fight the intrusion into the school. Here's a hint- it'll be over a decade, nice and slow, thru 'gifts' of OS and computers...
Ethanol tends to eat most seals and plastics, requiring MUCH more expensive gaskets and parts. It LOVES water- so dehydrated ethanol (100%) rapidly drops to its azeotropic point and is no longer clean burning.
While that can be fixed by using regenerative zeolite molecular sieves it requires still more engineering and cost (zeolites are pretty cheap in the 55 gallon drum, from what I remember- we designed a separation plant to use them).
As you say, everything can be overcome with engineering there. I just don't think your conspiracy theory stands up- yes, the government gets a cut on the alcohol sales (1.65/gallon wine under 16%, more on distilled products) but only on beverages (liquor). It's a very straightforward process to get the monies refunded (the NY ATF/ Taxation have step by step guides).
You're going to have to do better than that- you're going to have to get a pretty lady pregnant to stop from getting extradited- and she'll have to be 'dependent' upon you. Otherwise you're coming back to bubba-does-brian prison in a jumper made for 32.
The original maps were bought from Keyhole, a company that Kodak used to own. In the past they only offered LandSat imagery of all Kodak buildings (15 meter), but now they've just gone to the original 1 meter and simply kerneled it. It's EXTREMELY easy to see here- check out the parking lots.
I have found it to be a bit annoying as I use features around the airport for identification for my work, and it was always nice to have an outside 'reference' which might or might not agree with the GPS solution.
And why would Kodak care about providing high resolution targetting information of their infrastructure to competitors, not including the 10,000 gallon tanks of various hydrocarbon solvents that are stored near the center of the complex so that, should an explosion occurr, the buildings themselves will buffer 80% of the immediate damage and pressure wave to prevent wanton death and destruction?
My point? It's not that tough to get high resolution CQQs from your local state bureau. The county mosaics are high resolution and flown 2x per year by the USDA.
of one of my coworkers. He was moving to DC. THey had several mistatements in the document about the duration of the 'probation' period- some were 1 year, some were 2 years. For the same package. And no answers from them as to which one was the correct one.
Then there was the fees for the houses, and the clauses for required realtors (point shaving). Then the additional fees that were covered (mortage insurance thru special lenders) that were 50% above the going rate.
It's not as if having it in writing by the base company is something particular- it is probably farmed out to the cheapest group that's going to find every opportunity to tack on fees (sticking it to your new employer) and possibly (*worst case*) impacting your mortgage rates.
Good luck- I don't see alot of remedies in this situation EXCEPT to contact the original offer-er and ask him to have his super work something out with HR on this. If you're that good, they'll swing it. Otherwise negotiate for another week of paid vacation and consider it a learning experience.
Geeks talk about the importance of people, but anything involving Microsoft will have 500+ comments in 5 minutes, and anything involving science will have barely 100+ in an hour.
I survived cancer. My body, through whatever freak genetics and immune system programming, managed to wall off all of the cancerous tissue into nodes and the doctor, 9 months later, excised them and didn't contaminate my system with a single cell. I owe that man my life- it's interesting to live your life knowing that from the age 17+ you were supposed to die.
Here is a very interesting article about cancer and tumours, and how to fight them off. Yet no one feels the urge to add to quip "MS will 0\/\/N U" or something? Problems?
There's been quite abit of talk about nano-particles and buckyballs (kill off any fish, lately?) carrying different payloads once they're tagged with some sort of handle into different cells. This is a VIABLE treatment that, if I were back in that situation, I'd undertake if it meant jumping in front of a needle meant for a mouse.
Does anyone here know what it means to corner your doctor after your mother leaves the room- dragging yourself out of bed when every step is an agony of nerves you didn't know you had- and ask them what the fuck it is you're seeing in their eyes when they look at you and why they can't meet yours?
As geeks we've always blamed society for not having theirs organized right- let's get ours right before I see any more stones cast. Fix health. Then life. Then worry about which fucking OS is going to dominate the market next year.
Because the last time I looked in the mirror I didn't have to debate whether or not Bill Gates had anything to do with whether or not I that 'air you're breathing now" was real.
You all DO realize that your digital pictures typically have an embedded serial number of the camera in it, right?
I for one would love it if Flickr or YahooPhotos would offer the ability to search on serial numbers. Then I could recover my digital camera that was stolen... think of the possibilities!
Would at least limit the market for the stupid things. They're obviously worth nothing as parts so the entire unit would be sold to some unsuspecting person.
I'm really pulling at the memory here, but the value of a Life was calculated around 2.6 million dollars. This was based upon a traffic study and the number of vehicular accidents over a time frame and what it would cost, in productivity hours, to reduce the speed.
It was a very fascinating study and, despite my best efforts to locate the exact figure, I can't find it.
It was about 8 years ago that I read this, so this would be in ~2000 dollars.
There's two. There's hundreds found... and even many more before they get off the ground- how many people could be compromised had they been given access?
Exactly the point. You are susceptible to influence and may compromise national secrets. Blackmail, ideology, money, and thrill-seeking (I think there's one more) are the top reasons for why people sell out their country.
Supposedly money will get you info, but they won't put their necks out. Ideology gets you great info, but they're unstable. Thrill seekers are james-bond wannabees... and blackmail, well, people do things to protect their dirty secrets.
All I gotta say is "Tough Shit". If you want them to come up with a more reliable lie detector than a polygraph, then you certainly are encouraging them. Perhaps the one that monitors your brain waves when you're in a drugged state? I'll take the box over that any day.
Slipstreaming is definately the way to go. I did that with my Sister-in-laws OEM copy (dell) and then gave her both discs- the 'old' Dell restore CD and the 'new' dell restore CD. Both worked just fine, just that the new version would install SP2 and all patches up to the date we slipstreamed it.
Yes, it took about 4 hours preparation time, but in the end it was quite worth it.
I don't think MS is to blame for this fiasco.... what do they say? Adjust the nut behind the lense?
Searching for the title The most powerful diesel engine in the world" shows 545 hits. I've seen this page several times over the last few years- so this isn't exactly new or anything.
There are two methods- Charmat and French- and while Charmat is easier (Kegging beer equipment- use a CO2 wand and seal wine off) it doesn't produce the same flavours as the French method.
Bottle fermented sparkling wines are more difficult to make- riddling (removal of the yeast) takes the longest time when done by hand. New methods can perform complete riddling in less than 2 days, whereas done by hand might take 2 months or more.
We just disgorged and opened a bottle of 1993 Seyval Blanc champagne that had been sitting on the yeast for these 13 years. I froze the neck, shot the ice plug out (fun!) and topped it off with the 2006 Riesling I am currently producing.
At my friends 'champagne tasting' party it received the highest mark- a score of 9- "Liquid Panty Remover". While she was cute, I think I'll like her better with them on...
Making your own wine/beer is an extremely fun hobby and definately worth it from the geek-ness standpoint. There's so many different things to try and a nice, rigid experimentative mindset is a boon to this unpredictable biological curiosity.
Something I've yet to see discussed is how this will impact perception of 'photoshopped' pornography. Right now it is illegal to possess any form of 'child' pornography (rightfully so) - and there have been some defense attempts to show that the images aren't real- they're photoshopped. But if they affect the brain in the same manner... well, I'm certainly not qualified to judge the ramifications. Perhaps steeper sentences will come about- who knows... ?
And then there's the more obvious- kill or be killed- games that exist. Not to dip into the Matrix "Your mind makes it real" mentality that you see written into laws now adays targeting violent games but there may be some form of truth to that axiom. To some individuals that can not or will not socialize this may provide the tipping point that triggers their anti-social behaviour.
Interesting research. It'll be more interesting to see how the ethic committees respond.
- Now the individual in charge of it, James Pond, provided me with a succient answer as to why it was impossible. "We won't do it".
There are many factors that lead to delays. Here they widened the roadway and inserted a barrier- we now have only 'protected' left turns. Of course they do permit some U-Turns, and when people perform one they CRAWL thru the intersection at 5mph because they're afraid their front wheels will fall off. That reduces the number of vehicles down to 4, maximum, that will get thru a left turn arrow.
Of course, there are always 13 cars making left turns. That means.... TRAFFIC JAM!
ANd it's so easy to see it forming. After 3 signals the turn lane fills up. It spills into the left most lane. That shuts that lane down. At some point vehicles try to merge out of the lane while traffic is still approaching- which shuts down / slows down the center lane.... until those poor saps get panicky and emergency lane shift into the right lane. Which shuts down the right lane.
Why? Because most people are too scared to go 10 to 15mph with their wheels cranked all the way to the left to get thru the turn arrow.
Trying to make the 'traffic analysis/engineering' people see this is impossible. They refusee to come out and witness the actions, instead relying on sensors and counters. I drive the route every day at different times and can do a pretty good job at explaining each set of circumstances which triggers the resulting backup.
My favorite now is trying to get them to modify the left turn arrow to 'blink' red after 7pm. They refuse, of course, because waiting at a red light for 2 minutes while there is NO ONCOMING TRAFFIC is not an invonvience. I should bill them the $150/hr per instance. We have a 'slugs' of traffic that are always held up by series of lights, and always arrive in a single 'slug' of cars. After that slug passes it's about 2.5 minutes to the next 'slug' of cars. The lights are set to trigger at some time short of the trumpet shout- yet we can't get them to up the frequency for some reason.
Apparently there is a limit on the number of cars per hour - 200 CPH- that triggers different timing signals for the lights. I haven't seen the rules yet but this is just what I've been able to glean from conversations with Jim. He doesn't like me:)
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Exactly.
We have had an ongoing speed problem down out street. At one point, I yelled "SLOW THE FUCK DOWN ASSHOLE". The kid stops. Backs up. I pick up the hefty baseball bat that was sitting at my neighbors house (we're outside drinking beer).
Tim says "Hold a sec" and yells out "Andrew, Don't you know the speed limit here"... he *knew* the kid- and I let them handle it. Kid promised to slow down. etc, etc.
1 week later, I see Andrew's TOTALLED car sitting out in front of Timmy's house. Turns out Andrew was kicked out of his home after demolishing his car by doing 57 in a 35 (I yelled at him for doing 47 in a 35- and yes, we had a speed-truck in front to show the numbers). Andrew was 18. I hope he's learned his lesson, but I don't have alot of faith.
Did I mention our street is only 350 feet long?
Kodak did something similar with their professional papers. They embedded a recurrent pattern of dots in the blue channel (yellow dye) that could be seen on a scanner but was practically impossible to see with the naked eye. Hardware scanners then incorporated a 'tigger taggant' (It's been so long it could have been tiger taggants) detector and would lock out the user from printing the image unless a security override code was used. You couldn't defeat the mechanism by scanning it yourself, either, because unless you removed the blue channel dots it would still be present in the scanned image, and thus detected at printing (Such as at the XLS8500 Kiosk booths).
They eventually stopped doing so about 3 years ago, if memory serves, due to the increased cost of the paper. As you can imagine, pre-sensitization of the the paper with the taggants required unwinding the master rolls before cutting and significantly added to the cost.
Completely different, but intriguing anyway.
1) Most of the people that made those purchases knew there was a bug- and they did it anyway.
2) The advertised special was buy one get one free, not buy two get both free.
Enron's executives did the same thing to millions of investors. Same thing- screw them all over by just a little bit... and take your profit.
Congratulations on displaying exactly what a "ME" society is. It's OK for that guy to lose money because he can afford it, whereas I need my Heineken to drink so I'll go loot it.
No, but if you make a mistake on the bank and don't sign a check, you have those funds deducted from your account, automatically. I've had it a few times happen where my wife hasn't signed a check that was made out to the two of us:
The bank 'fixed' the funds with no notice.
Here at the ME society, we don't give a fuck about anyone else- just ME. In fact, I only bought 50 of these sets and Ebay'd them to make a profit- and now my Profit is cut in half- so I'm doubly angry at this. Where does Amazon get off trying to ship Supposed Xmas presents before the End of the Year to make people happy- it's all about ME!
If this was your parent's store, you'd be pissed, they'd be broke, and they'd have to eat it. There's no magic 'Amazon' out there- there's a group of people that have invested in that store and have had their investments 'plundered' for people that took advantage of a bug/mistake. Anyone purchasing the items knew they were getting a YMMV deal and it was questionable whether or not it would be honored.
So what the Poster is whining about is: "I walked into a bank and saw a bag of money on the ground. I took the money, but was arrested for Felony Theft. Why can they do this".
Suck it up and start realizing that theft is theft no matter how you coach it in terms of a 'sale'.
A diet pepsi costs the following- can you match them up?
1) $1.00
2) $1.25
3) $1.39
with
A) Work Vending Machine
B) School Vending Machine
C) Grocery Store
If you said 1-B, 2-A, and 3-C, you're Right!
What does that mean? Exploit the students. Get them addicted to soda, (We called it 'coke' where I come from and for good reason), profit insanely at their completely disposable income, and they'll continue to provide for you the rest of your corporate career!
This patent is sickening. Schools currently use IE, but as they switch to ad-blockable content (anything available for IE) then there is SO much profit-potential lost it's absurd.
We (I and several other individuals) mentor about 30 HS students. It is TRULY amazing how much their minds are like sponges- and how easy it can be to inadvertently modify their behavior. An unkind word, a stern glance, and the next thing you know they want nothing to do with that topic. It's insane. The mentors themselves end up having to walk this twisted line of professional dedication (our backgrounds) and playing psychologist ("How does that make you feel").
Let's face it- the whole point of this is about money, and cash is king. The brains are just too wired for this behaviour (Nestle's Chocobot hour) to be anything but profitable thru very specific programming.
They'll get the patent..... and it'll be up to us to fight the intrusion into the school. Here's a hint- it'll be over a decade, nice and slow, thru 'gifts' of OS and computers...
Ethanol tends to eat most seals and plastics, requiring MUCH more expensive gaskets and parts. It LOVES water- so dehydrated ethanol (100%) rapidly drops to its azeotropic point and is no longer clean burning.
While that can be fixed by using regenerative zeolite molecular sieves it requires still more engineering and cost (zeolites are pretty cheap in the 55 gallon drum, from what I remember- we designed a separation plant to use them).
As you say, everything can be overcome with engineering there. I just don't think your conspiracy theory stands up- yes, the government gets a cut on the alcohol sales (1.65/gallon wine under 16%, more on distilled products) but only on beverages (liquor). It's a very straightforward process to get the monies refunded (the NY ATF/ Taxation have step by step guides).
Just my opinions...
* Moves to Brazil *
You're going to have to do better than that- you're going to have to get a pretty lady pregnant to stop from getting extradited- and she'll have to be 'dependent' upon you. Otherwise you're coming back to bubba-does-brian prison in a jumper made for 32.
... the Maps.
U TF8&z=17&ll=43.197081,-77.628826&spn=0.006695,0.01 6909&t=h&om=1
9 897,-77.009375&spn=0.001787,0.003347&t=h&om=1
The original maps were bought from Keyhole, a company that Kodak used to own. In the past they only offered LandSat imagery of all Kodak buildings (15 meter), but now they've just gone to the original 1 meter and simply kerneled it. It's EXTREMELY easy to see here- check out the parking lots.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=14616&ie=
I have found it to be a bit annoying as I use features around the airport for identification for my work, and it was always nice to have an outside 'reference' which might or might not agree with the GPS solution.
And why would Kodak care about providing high resolution targetting information of their infrastructure to competitors, not including the 10,000 gallon tanks of various hydrocarbon solvents that are stored near the center of the complex so that, should an explosion occurr, the buildings themselves will buffer 80% of the immediate damage and pressure wave to prevent wanton death and destruction?
For 'sensitive' areas it's not much to ask.
Oh, and btw- No problem seeing 1m resolution here: http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&z=19&ll=38.88
My point? It's not that tough to get high resolution CQQs from your local state bureau. The county mosaics are high resolution and flown 2x per year by the USDA.
of one of my coworkers. He was moving to DC. THey had several mistatements in the document about the duration of the 'probation' period- some were 1 year, some were 2 years. For the same package. And no answers from them as to which one was the correct one.
Then there was the fees for the houses, and the clauses for required realtors (point shaving). Then the additional fees that were covered (mortage insurance thru special lenders) that were 50% above the going rate.
It's not as if having it in writing by the base company is something particular- it is probably farmed out to the cheapest group that's going to find every opportunity to tack on fees (sticking it to your new employer) and possibly (*worst case*) impacting your mortgage rates.
Good luck- I don't see alot of remedies in this situation EXCEPT to contact the original offer-er and ask him to have his super work something out with HR on this. If you're that good, they'll swing it. Otherwise negotiate for another week of paid vacation and consider it a learning experience.
Geeks talk about the importance of people, but anything involving Microsoft will have 500+ comments in 5 minutes, and anything involving science will have barely 100+ in an hour.
I survived cancer. My body, through whatever freak genetics and immune system programming, managed to wall off all of the cancerous tissue into nodes and the doctor, 9 months later, excised them and didn't contaminate my system with a single cell. I owe that man my life- it's interesting to live your life knowing that from the age 17+ you were supposed to die.
Here is a very interesting article about cancer and tumours, and how to fight them off. Yet no one feels the urge to add to quip "MS will 0\/\/N U" or something? Problems?
There's been quite abit of talk about nano-particles and buckyballs (kill off any fish, lately?) carrying different payloads once they're tagged with some sort of handle into different cells. This is a VIABLE treatment that, if I were back in that situation, I'd undertake if it meant jumping in front of a needle meant for a mouse.
Does anyone here know what it means to corner your doctor after your mother leaves the room- dragging yourself out of bed when every step is an agony of nerves you didn't know you had- and ask them what the fuck it is you're seeing in their eyes when they look at you and why they can't meet yours?
As geeks we've always blamed society for not having theirs organized right- let's get ours right before I see any more stones cast. Fix health. Then life. Then worry about which fucking OS is going to dominate the market next year.
Because the last time I looked in the mirror I didn't have to debate whether or not Bill Gates had anything to do with whether or not I that 'air you're breathing now" was real.
You all DO realize that your digital pictures typically have an embedded serial number of the camera in it, right?
I for one would love it if Flickr or YahooPhotos would offer the ability to search on serial numbers. Then I could recover my digital camera that was stolen... think of the possibilities!
Would at least limit the market for the stupid things. They're obviously worth nothing as parts so the entire unit would be sold to some unsuspecting person.
I'm really pulling at the memory here, but the value of a Life was calculated around 2.6 million dollars. This was based upon a traffic study and the number of vehicular accidents over a time frame and what it would cost, in productivity hours, to reduce the speed.
It was a very fascinating study and, despite my best efforts to locate the exact figure, I can't find it.
It was about 8 years ago that I read this, so this would be in ~2000 dollars.
That's not the same as undergoing a poly for your job- with verifiable facts and questions.
They're effective at what they do- stop the common person. For the very dedicated, 5 years between tests is too much time.
Sharon Scranage - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Scranage
Jim Nicholson - convicted of spying for Russia
There's two. There's hundreds found... and even many more before they get off the ground- how many people could be compromised had they been given access?
Exactly the point. You are susceptible to influence and may compromise national secrets. Blackmail, ideology, money, and thrill-seeking (I think there's one more) are the top reasons for why people sell out their country.
Supposedly money will get you info, but they won't put their necks out. Ideology gets you great info, but they're unstable. Thrill seekers are james-bond wannabees... and blackmail, well, people do things to protect their dirty secrets.
All I gotta say is "Tough Shit". If you want them to come up with a more reliable lie detector than a polygraph, then you certainly are encouraging them. Perhaps the one that monitors your brain waves when you're in a drugged state? I'll take the box over that any day.
Slipstreaming is definately the way to go. I did that with my Sister-in-laws OEM copy (dell) and then gave her both discs- the 'old' Dell restore CD and the 'new' dell restore CD. Both worked just fine, just that the new version would install SP2 and all patches up to the date we slipstreamed it.
Yes, it took about 4 hours preparation time, but in the end it was quite worth it.
I don't think MS is to blame for this fiasco.... what do they say? Adjust the nut behind the lense?
Exactly.
Searching for the title The most powerful diesel engine in the world" shows 545 hits. I've seen this page several times over the last few years- so this isn't exactly new or anything.
There are two methods- Charmat and French- and while Charmat is easier (Kegging beer equipment- use a CO2 wand and seal wine off) it doesn't produce the same flavours as the French method.
Bottle fermented sparkling wines are more difficult to make- riddling (removal of the yeast) takes the longest time when done by hand. New methods can perform complete riddling in less than 2 days, whereas done by hand might take 2 months or more.
We just disgorged and opened a bottle of 1993 Seyval Blanc champagne that had been sitting on the yeast for these 13 years. I froze the neck, shot the ice plug out (fun!) and topped it off with the 2006 Riesling I am currently producing.
At my friends 'champagne tasting' party it received the highest mark- a score of 9- "Liquid Panty Remover". While she was cute, I think I'll like her better with them on...
Making your own wine/beer is an extremely fun hobby and definately worth it from the geek-ness standpoint. There's so many different things to try and a nice, rigid experimentative mindset is a boon to this unpredictable biological curiosity.
We do this all the time. It's called "Conspiracy to commit ZZZZZ". Most often that's 'murder'.
You can plan a murder, buy all the supplies, etc... but take no action and you've still committed a crime.
It's brave, new world out there...
Go from NY to CA. +3 hours. Wake up at 4am, sit around, do nothing until breakfast (6am/9am). Work until 11pm (2am). Repeat.
Then fly to Germany (-6 hours). Perform the same tasks, but now you're getting up at 1am (which was really 11pm).
Yeah, so I was messed up for about 2 months afterwards...
Something I've yet to see discussed is how this will impact perception of 'photoshopped' pornography. Right now it is illegal to possess any form of 'child' pornography (rightfully so) - and there have been some defense attempts to show that the images aren't real- they're photoshopped. But if they affect the brain in the same manner... well, I'm certainly not qualified to judge the ramifications. Perhaps steeper sentences will come about- who knows... ?
And then there's the more obvious- kill or be killed- games that exist. Not to dip into the Matrix "Your mind makes it real" mentality that you see written into laws now adays targeting violent games but there may be some form of truth to that axiom. To some individuals that can not or will not socialize this may provide the tipping point that triggers their anti-social behaviour.
Interesting research. It'll be more interesting to see how the ethic committees respond.
- Now the individual in charge of it, James Pond, provided me with a succient answer as to why it was impossible. "We won't do it".
:)
There are many factors that lead to delays. Here they widened the roadway and inserted a barrier- we now have only 'protected' left turns. Of course they do permit some U-Turns, and when people perform one they CRAWL thru the intersection at 5mph because they're afraid their front wheels will fall off. That reduces the number of vehicles down to 4, maximum, that will get thru a left turn arrow.
Of course, there are always 13 cars making left turns. That means.... TRAFFIC JAM!
ANd it's so easy to see it forming. After 3 signals the turn lane fills up. It spills into the left most lane. That shuts that lane down. At some point vehicles try to merge out of the lane while traffic is still approaching- which shuts down / slows down the center lane.... until those poor saps get panicky and emergency lane shift into the right lane. Which shuts down the right lane.
Why? Because most people are too scared to go 10 to 15mph with their wheels cranked all the way to the left to get thru the turn arrow.
Trying to make the 'traffic analysis/engineering' people see this is impossible. They refusee to come out and witness the actions, instead relying on sensors and counters. I drive the route every day at different times and can do a pretty good job at explaining each set of circumstances which triggers the resulting backup.
My favorite now is trying to get them to modify the left turn arrow to 'blink' red after 7pm. They refuse, of course, because waiting at a red light for 2 minutes while there is NO ONCOMING TRAFFIC is not an invonvience. I should bill them the $150/hr per instance. We have a 'slugs' of traffic that are always held up by series of lights, and always arrive in a single 'slug' of cars. After that slug passes it's about 2.5 minutes to the next 'slug' of cars. The lights are set to trigger at some time short of the trumpet shout- yet we can't get them to up the frequency for some reason.
Apparently there is a limit on the number of cars per hour - 200 CPH- that triggers different timing signals for the lights. I haven't seen the rules yet but this is just what I've been able to glean from conversations with Jim. He doesn't like me
*grin*
15 hours of prime 95 just fine. On both cores.
2 hours later I decided to check gmail- poof- down goes the computer.
Such a fun bug...