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No, an incandescent bulb is a 2 meter, fairly carefully double spiralled, tungsten conductor inside a sealed oxygen-free chamber.
That's essentially what I said, fucktard. I didn't say that the tungsten filament was easy to make, only that the incandescent bulb is easier to make than a retrofit CF bulb.
CF BULBS contain no ballast as they can be had in a variety of shapes replaceable independantly from the ballast. A CF bulb has a short electrode at either end and are filled with argon gas and a pinch of mercury. Which is more complicated is left as an exercise for the reader.
CF bulbs don't have an screw base that retrofit into a standard 110v bulb socket without a ballast. Your point, that CF bulbs are sometimes removea ble and can be replaced sperately from the ballast, don't change the fact that CF bulbs requirte a fucking ballast.
Yeah, especially those parroting industry advocates that do less safety research than the FDA. (Hint: the FDA trusts the manufacturer to test safety.)
FDA? I thought we were talking about cell phones, gas pumps, and airplanes. FCC, FAA, or DOT maybe?
Besides, I wasn't making an opposition argument so much as I was pointing out the humor of someone posting a message that says "don't believe everything you read" and not offering much in the way of counter-argument. Sounds like, y'know, "don't believe their unsubstantiated claims, believe mine!"
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Well, how much energy is required to manufacture the incandecent bulbs? Probably only *slightly* less than the CF type.
No, an incandescent bulb is a simple tungsten conductor inside an evacuated or inert gassed glass bulb. CF bulbs contain a ballast transformer and require a fairly carefully spiralled glass tube filled with a fluorescent gas. It's more than just slightly more complicated.
Yeah, we wouldn't want talking to interrupt the blissful quiet and plush comfort of airline travel.
Problem with cellphones is that, due to lack of sidetone (hearing your own voice out the speaker) most stupid cell phone users SHOUT INTO THE PHONE. Sitting next to two people talking I don't mind. Sitting next to some jackass yelling "I'M ON THE PLANE. I'M CALLING FROM THE PLANE. HAVE THEM CALL ME HERE, MY CELL PHONE WORKS ON THE PLANE.", that I couldn't stand.
Dont' believe everything you read. Any item which can generate a heat source (aka spark) can ingnite a fuel-air mixture. The fact that it doesn't happen every day, or that there are easier ways to ignite gasoline (static electricity, cigarettes) does NOT mean that it can not happen.
Don't believe everything you read? Like posts by random people on slashdot?
Best Brains is going beyond just protecting their own revenue when they do this, they are trying to stifle the creative expression of other artists.
Except that they're not suing to get the Mr. Sinus folks to stop making snide comments in the theater. They're only suing to make them stop calling themselves "Mister Sinus Theater". They can call themselves "The Austin Wise Cracking Theater" and Best Brains wouldn't care.
In fact, the Mr. Sinus guys mailed off a list of possible name changes and never got a response from Best Brains, Inc. and then, poof, lawsuit.
It's not BBI's job to pick their new non-infringing name. If they'd changed their name to "Movie Parody Theater" there would've been no lawsuit. Instead, they just essentially said "well, what do YOU (BBI) think we should call ourselves then?" and (most importantly) didn't change their infringing name. I'm sure they're very funny, and probably decent folks too; but if Best Brains doesn't want to be associated with them, they can't use the MST3K name or any obvious alliterative variations. It doesn't matter if they mean well and/or are fans of the real MST3K. BBI said "quit leveraging our trademark", and they continued to do so.
The best defense against government poking its nose into your business is to be boring and lame. Fortunately, most of us here already qualify in that regard.
Hheh, yeah you certainly do. Its a joke man. Be happy.
Hah! I'm more than qualified. I'm as boring as a flour tortilla-on-Wonder Bread sandwich. I'm as lame as an IBM PCjr keyboard. I'm as insignificant as a pro football fan in Los Angeles.:)
Q: Why did Joel leave MST3K?
A: Hodgson, who had created the series and labored on it ceaselessly for five years, asked off the show, pleading burnout. In the press release announcing his departure, Hodgson summed it up by saying:
"It's time for me to hang up my red jump suit and move behind the camera. Besides, there's an old show business adage I once heard Adam West say: 'Stay in the same costume and before you know it, you end up signing pictures at an R.V. show.' Maybe it was Clayton Moore, now that I think of it."
Q: When he left the show, didn't they say that Joel was going to continue working behind the scenes? But that never happened. Why?
A: Yes, the press release about Joel's departure did say that Joel would "remain a member of the MST3K writing team and...also direct several episodes." Best Brains staffers later said that was the intention, but, as they tell it, almost immediately Joel got an opportunity to work on some other projects in Los Angeles, and he plunged into work on them. He soon was working full-time there on these other projects, and found there was no time to return to Minneapolis. Eventually, Joel had only a financial stake in the series, but no longer offered creative input.
Q: I've heard rumors that Joel was fired and that there was bad blood between him and the rest of the cast and crew.
A: Joel could not be fired. He was the show's creator. No one could have made him leave if he hadn't wanted to go.
Although he covered as best he could during his time on the show, those that know him well say Joel is a shy person who was very uncomfortable in front of the camera, and was even more uncomfortable with his growing fame. Joel also reportedly prefers creating concepts to the day-to-day work of maintaining them. Once a project is up and running, those close to him say, he likes to move on to a new creation. "I want to become a behind-the-camera guy," Joel explained when he left. "I want to get on to the NEXT weird show. I want to bean idea man."
Jim Mallon, however, resisted Joel's attempts to step away from the series, and felt it was Joel's responsibility, as host, to devote himself to the MST3K franchise. Ultimately the two parted ways. In retrospect, we think all sides now realize it was a healthy change for the series, and all the former cast members are on good terms with one another. That was certainly apparent during Joel's 1998 visit to the BBI studios to shoot his appearances in episode 1001- SOULTAKER. The authors of this FAQ were present at the taping, and Joel and the current cast got along comfortably and there was no tension at all during the taping.
I have to say that in this case, I agree that the big corporation is probably in the right.
I agree with you wholeheartedly, but it whould probably be pointed out that Best Brains Inc. is hardly a big corp. From the Satellite News (official MST3K) web site:
Best Brains Inc. seems to have become a company whose only business is the sales of MST3K merchandise and memorabilia. The only people on staff are Jim Mallon, controller Tim Johnson and Barb Tebben.
I used to work in intelligence for the US Army. The first thing you do is filter out the crap (e.g. random losers saying "bearded middle east man") so you don't waste limited resources chasing dead ends. Believe it or not, intelligence professionals look at context. In fact, context often gives produces better intelligence than the initial flag. Contrary to the beliefs evinced by their paranoid rantings, most people will never warrant a second look, no matter what they say in email, on the phone, etc. Like most of us, they're not that fuckin' important because they're just another random slob. The best defense against government poking its nose into your business is to be boring and lame. Fortunately, most of us here already qualify in that regard.
its almost like echelon, "bearded middle east man" probably grants you a "go directly to prison"-card.
Except that it doesn't. If you get flagged by Echelon, that usually just results in a black Chevy Impala outside your house for a few months before they figure out that you're nobody. They're worse than they used to be, but it's not like they're StaSi...
Time out.
He was outside the library. OUTSIDE THE LIBRARY. Repeat 5 times.
Why should he be held to rules that apply only _inside_ the library?
Remember. He was outside the library.
Who says they only apply inside the library? Do you really think their WiFi AUP has such a glaring loophole as "these rules only apoply inside the building"? I'm not saying that they should prohibit access from outside their doors, just that it's shouldn't necessarily be a free-for-all just because you can pick it up outside. Being that it's a public resource, their AUP certainly shouldn't prohibit such access, but it should still apply.
Do the library's rules on treatment of borrowed books still apply once you leave the premises with the book?
That site (wilwheatonsucks) seems pretty freudian to me. Hardly proof that he does indeed suck in any way. Rather, I'm quite sure the author of this site _wishes_ that wilwheatonsucks;)
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. I think the line that best typifies the site wilwheatonsucks.com is the following from the FAQ:
Q: Wow, you must be a loser to spend your free time making this site devoted to one guy. Are you?
A: I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you clearly with my dick in your mouth. Could you ask again?
What a stunning rebuttal! His dick in their mouth! Wow!
In other words, "yes, I am a loser, and now you know what I'm really all about". His commentary is about as interesting as that of a 12 year old on CounterStrike who says "UR SO GAY U CAMPER!"
"Wil is a fag. Wil is so gay. Wil is a flaming homo. Buy my T-shirts. Cafepress is gay for not letting me sell the likeness of a famous person without his permission. I want to put my dick in people's mouths (mostly Wil's)"
I agree. Sounds like someone needs to come out of the closet.
Well, Scotty was great, but I have to say Doohan himself was better
I had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to talk with James Doohan back in 1990. I was dating the daughter of a not very well-known producer who happened to be a long time friend of James Doohan. While waiting for her to get ready to "go out" one evening, I walked into the living room and there he was, drinking a beer at the bar with her father. They invited me to join them while I waited, so I got to sit on a barstool next to Mr Doohan and talk about motorcycles (he had a Triumph when he was in the British army, then bought a Harley when he came to the US). It was pretty much just mundane small talk about a common interest, but he was a lot of fun to talk to just the same. I only got to talk to him for a half hour or so, but he's still probably one of the top ten coolest people I've ever met. Just a really, really great guy.
Given the example of 'cognac glasses', i think it subtly shows just how out-of-touch Valenti is with the consumers. His example would have been just as relevant if he was talking about bottles of Coke.
"Hey, if you pull out of the driveway of your mansion in Bel-Air and ram one of your twelve Rolls Royce Silver Shadows into a tree because you you spilled caviar on your Zegna suit, you have to go down to the Rolls Royce dealer, pull out your American Express card, and buy a new one just like everyone else does."
I'm talking about why people believe to some degree that the industry directly owes them another copy when the original(s) is destroyed by mishap or wear.
Nobody thinks they are owed a FREE copy. It's a matter of what, exactly, the $15 they paid originally gets them. Is it $1 for the media and $14 for the license that allows you one copy? If so, then if you damage your copy, does not that $14 license entitle you to a replacement media for $1? Or if it's $14 for the media and $1 for the license, can I burn myself five extra copies and send them $1 for each as license payment? They try to position it as being, at the same time, both and neither. They claim the $15 is just for the license when you try to make copies, but then they later claim the $15 is for the media when you want a replacement for a scratched disc. They can't logically have it both ways, but they've successfully lobbied to get the law to say they can have their cake and eat it too.
Or the fire department believing that caller-id tells them where to send help.
Emergency services use the ANI data. This service just spoofs the CID data. The ANI doesn't change.
If the system is unreliable as designed, it should be repaired.
The CID system is purely a value-added service sold to end users, unrelated to billing, emergency services, etc. It's not intended to be taken seriously by anyone needing factual information about the calling party. I think they should be using the ANI data for CID, but for some reason they decided to implement a parallel system that essentially does the same thing, but less reliably.
The "crippleware" part of the source is not in the source package that is downloadable. Therein lies the problem...
It'd be interesting to see if the source provided compiles into a non-crippled version. If it does, then that's even better than having source with the cripple-code in it. But yeah, still a violation of the GPL to distribute the cripple-coded one, though.
Copyrighted, not copy-written. Copyright has no specific relationship with writing, other than the coincidental one in that the word "right" ir pronounced the same as the word "write" and that written works are covered by copyright. All you have to remember is that copyright gives you the right to copy.
But that's for the icing-on-top caller ID for your rinky-dink analog phone. That's easily spoofed.
Only if you have access to the switch level. You can't spoof directly from your analog POTS set by blowing your own 1200bps CID info between rings 1 and 2 like the OP suggested.
Not the switch-level ANI that's used to identify you to some companies' big PBX system even if your caller ID is blocked.
Also, cellphones use (the equivalent) of ANI, the "other" caller ID is non-existant in that space.
Yeah, you make an important point there. ANI is what 911, [800|888|877|866], 900, and the telco's billing systems use to ID you when you make a call. The CID number is a candy-ass name and number string that's usually defined by the first box that MUX's your analog call into a digital outbound line. If you got a T1 card, you can do it yourself. But yeah, don't nobody out there think you can put in your neighbor's name and # and call 911 and get the police to his door, 'cause they're using the ANI info: they're coming to YOUR door.
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That's essentially what I said, fucktard. I didn't say that the tungsten filament was easy to make, only that the incandescent bulb is easier to make than a retrofit CF bulb.
CF BULBS contain no ballast as they can be had in a variety of shapes replaceable independantly from the ballast. A CF bulb has a short electrode at either end and are filled with argon gas and a pinch of mercury. Which is more complicated is left as an exercise for the reader.
CF bulbs don't have an screw base that retrofit into a standard 110v bulb socket without a ballast. Your point, that CF bulbs are sometimes removea ble and can be replaced sperately from the ballast, don't change the fact that CF bulbs requirte a fucking ballast.
FDA? I thought we were talking about cell phones, gas pumps, and airplanes. FCC, FAA, or DOT maybe?
Besides, I wasn't making an opposition argument so much as I was pointing out the humor of someone posting a message that says "don't believe everything you read" and not offering much in the way of counter-argument. Sounds like, y'know, "don't believe their unsubstantiated claims, believe mine!"
No, an incandescent bulb is a simple tungsten conductor inside an evacuated or inert gassed glass bulb. CF bulbs contain a ballast transformer and require a fairly carefully spiralled glass tube filled with a fluorescent gas. It's more than just slightly more complicated.
Problem with cellphones is that, due to lack of sidetone (hearing your own voice out the speaker) most stupid cell phone users SHOUT INTO THE PHONE. Sitting next to two people talking I don't mind. Sitting next to some jackass yelling "I'M ON THE PLANE. I'M CALLING FROM THE PLANE. HAVE THEM CALL ME HERE, MY CELL PHONE WORKS ON THE PLANE.", that I couldn't stand.
Don't believe everything you read? Like posts by random people on slashdot?
Except that they're not suing to get the Mr. Sinus folks to stop making snide comments in the theater. They're only suing to make them stop calling themselves "Mister Sinus Theater". They can call themselves "The Austin Wise Cracking Theater" and Best Brains wouldn't care.
It's not BBI's job to pick their new non-infringing name. If they'd changed their name to "Movie Parody Theater" there would've been no lawsuit. Instead, they just essentially said "well, what do YOU (BBI) think we should call ourselves then?" and (most importantly) didn't change their infringing name . I'm sure they're very funny, and probably decent folks too; but if Best Brains doesn't want to be associated with them, they can't use the MST3K name or any obvious alliterative variations. It doesn't matter if they mean well and/or are fans of the real MST3K. BBI said "quit leveraging our trademark", and they continued to do so.
Hheh, yeah you certainly do. Its a joke man. Be happy.
Hah! I'm more than qualified. I'm as boring as a flour tortilla-on-Wonder Bread sandwich. I'm as lame as an IBM PCjr keyboard. I'm as insignificant as a pro football fan in Los Angeles. :)
Apparently not. From the official MST3K site: (boldface added by me)
Q: Why did Joel leave MST3K?
A: Hodgson, who had created the series and labored on it ceaselessly for five years, asked off the show, pleading burnout. In the press release announcing his departure, Hodgson summed it up by saying:
Q: When he left the show, didn't they say that Joel was going to continue working behind the scenes? But that never happened. Why?
A: Yes, the press release about Joel's departure did say that Joel would "remain a member of the MST3K writing team and...also direct several episodes." Best Brains staffers later said that was the intention, but, as they tell it, almost immediately Joel got an opportunity to work on some other projects in Los Angeles, and he plunged into work on them. He soon was working full-time there on these other projects, and found there was no time to return to Minneapolis. Eventually, Joel had only a financial stake in the series, but no longer offered creative input.
Q: I've heard rumors that Joel was fired and that there was bad blood between him and the rest of the cast and crew.
A: Joel could not be fired. He was the show's creator. No one could have made him leave if he hadn't wanted to go.
Although he covered as best he could during his time on the show, those that know him well say Joel is a shy person who was very uncomfortable in front of the camera, and was even more uncomfortable with his growing fame. Joel also reportedly prefers creating concepts to the day-to-day work of maintaining them. Once a project is up and running, those close to him say, he likes to move on to a new creation. "I want to become a behind-the-camera guy," Joel explained when he left. "I want to get on to the NEXT weird show. I want to bean idea man."
Jim Mallon, however, resisted Joel's attempts to step away from the series, and felt it was Joel's responsibility, as host, to devote himself to the MST3K franchise. Ultimately the two parted ways. In retrospect, we think all sides now realize it was a healthy change for the series, and all the former cast members are on good terms with one another. That was certainly apparent during Joel's 1998 visit to the BBI studios to shoot his appearances in episode 1001- SOULTAKER. The authors of this FAQ were present at the taping, and Joel and the current cast got along comfortably and there was no tension at all during the taping.
I agree with you wholeheartedly, but it whould probably be pointed out that Best Brains Inc. is hardly a big corp. From the Satellite News (official MST3K) web site:
I used to work in intelligence for the US Army. The first thing you do is filter out the crap (e.g. random losers saying "bearded middle east man") so you don't waste limited resources chasing dead ends. Believe it or not, intelligence professionals look at context. In fact, context often gives produces better intelligence than the initial flag. Contrary to the beliefs evinced by their paranoid rantings, most people will never warrant a second look, no matter what they say in email, on the phone, etc. Like most of us, they're not that fuckin' important because they're just another random slob. The best defense against government poking its nose into your business is to be boring and lame. Fortunately, most of us here already qualify in that regard.
heh. Everyone deserves the opportunity to be devoured first.
Except that it doesn't. If you get flagged by Echelon, that usually just results in a black Chevy Impala outside your house for a few months before they figure out that you're nobody. They're worse than they used to be, but it's not like they're StaSi...
Who says they only apply inside the library? Do you really think their WiFi AUP has such a glaring loophole as "these rules only apoply inside the building"? I'm not saying that they should prohibit access from outside their doors, just that it's shouldn't necessarily be a free-for-all just because you can pick it up outside. Being that it's a public resource, their AUP certainly shouldn't prohibit such access, but it should still apply.
Do the library's rules on treatment of borrowed books still apply once you leave the premises with the book?
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. I think the line that best typifies the site wilwheatonsucks.com is the following from the FAQ:
What a stunning rebuttal! His dick in their mouth! Wow!In other words, "yes, I am a loser, and now you know what I'm really all about". His commentary is about as interesting as that of a 12 year old on CounterStrike who says "UR SO GAY U CAMPER!"
"Wil is a fag. Wil is so gay. Wil is a flaming homo. Buy my T-shirts. Cafepress is gay for not letting me sell the likeness of a famous person without his permission. I want to put my dick in people's mouths (mostly Wil's)"
I agree. Sounds like someone needs to come out of the closet.
I'd say he's worth more than two dozen Tom Cruises piled up and lit on fire with a burning John Travolta.
I had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to talk with James Doohan back in 1990. I was dating the daughter of a not very well-known producer who happened to be a long time friend of James Doohan. While waiting for her to get ready to "go out" one evening, I walked into the living room and there he was, drinking a beer at the bar with her father. They invited me to join them while I waited, so I got to sit on a barstool next to Mr Doohan and talk about motorcycles (he had a Triumph when he was in the British army, then bought a Harley when he came to the US). It was pretty much just mundane small talk about a common interest, but he was a lot of fun to talk to just the same. I only got to talk to him for a half hour or so, but he's still probably one of the top ten coolest people I've ever met. Just a really, really great guy.
"Hey, if you pull out of the driveway of your mansion in Bel-Air and ram one of your twelve Rolls Royce Silver Shadows into a tree because you you spilled caviar on your Zegna suit, you have to go down to the Rolls Royce dealer, pull out your American Express card, and buy a new one just like everyone else does."
Nobody thinks they are owed a FREE copy. It's a matter of what, exactly, the $15 they paid originally gets them. Is it $1 for the media and $14 for the license that allows you one copy? If so, then if you damage your copy, does not that $14 license entitle you to a replacement media for $1? Or if it's $14 for the media and $1 for the license, can I burn myself five extra copies and send them $1 for each as license payment? They try to position it as being, at the same time, both and neither. They claim the $15 is just for the license when you try to make copies, but then they later claim the $15 is for the media when you want a replacement for a scratched disc. They can't logically have it both ways, but they've successfully lobbied to get the law to say they can have their cake and eat it too.
Emergency services use the ANI data. This service just spoofs the CID data. The ANI doesn't change.
If the system is unreliable as designed, it should be repaired.
The CID system is purely a value-added service sold to end users, unrelated to billing, emergency services, etc. It's not intended to be taken seriously by anyone needing factual information about the calling party. I think they should be using the ANI data for CID, but for some reason they decided to implement a parallel system that essentially does the same thing, but less reliably.
yep. There it is.
It'd be interesting to see if the source provided compiles into a non-crippled version. If it does, then that's even better than having source with the cripple-code in it. But yeah, still a violation of the GPL to distribute the cripple-coded one, though.
Copyrighted, not copy-written. Copyright has no specific relationship with writing, other than the coincidental one in that the word "right" ir pronounced the same as the word "write" and that written works are covered by copyright. All you have to remember is that copyright gives you the right to copy.
Only if you have access to the switch level. You can't spoof directly from your analog POTS set by blowing your own 1200bps CID info between rings 1 and 2 like the OP suggested.
Not the switch-level ANI that's used to identify you to some companies' big PBX system even if your caller ID is blocked. Also, cellphones use (the equivalent) of ANI, the "other" caller ID is non-existant in that space.
Yeah, you make an important point there. ANI is what 911, [800|888|877|866], 900, and the telco's billing systems use to ID you when you make a call. The CID number is a candy-ass name and number string that's usually defined by the first box that MUX's your analog call into a digital outbound line. If you got a T1 card, you can do it yourself. But yeah, don't nobody out there think you can put in your neighbor's name and # and call 911 and get the police to his door, 'cause they're using the ANI info: they're coming to YOUR door.
You are the ball licker, because you do in fact lick balls!