>I imagine those people will just start buying >tobacco from companies on Native American >reservations.
Many people already are. I live not far from several Haudenasaune (Iroquois) reservations, which do a brisk business (both brick & mortar and online) selling cartons of cigarettes. As a matter of fact, officials in New York are desperately trying to find ways to tax this resource; it has thus far proved elusive (due to the autonomous nature of the native nations), but a deal might be in the works to allow on-reservation tax collection by the state in exchange for rights to build more casinos on non-reservation land.
Michael Collins' book "Carrying the Fire" (foreward by Charles A. Lindbergh shortly before his death) is a fascinating read, and a good source of insight into his mindset at the time. One of his concerns was the possibility that the LEM, which had not (and could not have) been tested under these circumstances, would fail to get off the moon, stranding Armstrong and Aldrin on the lunar surface to die by slow asphyxiation. It would have been quite the despondent trip home for Collins had this scenario played out.
Dr. Oliver Sacks, in his fascinating "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat", related a case of a group of aphasia and agnosia patients in a group home laughing out during a speech by Ronald Reagan...when Sacks asked them what was so humorous, they told him that Reagan was blatantly lying. Further testing by Sacks led him to believe that these individuals were indeed endowed by their disability with the capacity to distinguish dishonest people.
IINA biochemist, but i understand that drinking distilled water is detrimental to one's health as water stripped of all its impurities strongly attracts certain minerals and compounds, stripping them from your tissues.
Your theory is predicated on everyone being heterosexual - not a safe assumption. Remember, the skipper does refer to Gilligan as his 'little buddy'...
As someone who's taken a number of linguistics courses, i'd like to point out that the techies in India are speaking English *perfectly*...they do not speak it accented by some other primary language, but rather they speak a different dialect of English - just as those from the 'deep south' speak a dialect nearly as unintellible at times to us northerners.
Eight feet is not deep enough to produce the chilling effect on water seen in lakes like the Great Lakes (or upstate New York's Cayuga Lake, where a similar system was installed to provide cooling for Cornell University several years ago).
>most commercial and military communication in the >US has moved to satellite; Only smaller services >(in the west), third world countries, radio >stations and HAM radio operators use HF
Actually, the U.S. military still makes *heavy* use of the HF portion of the radio spectrum - primary modes are SSB (long-distance voice communications) and ALE (a digital system for sending short messages and for analyzing the reliability of particular frequency). Emergency services, such as FEMA and the Red Cross, also make heavy use of 'shortwave' for their long-distance/emergency communications. FEMA even responded to the FCC's request for comments to argue against deploying BPL, apparently to no effect (which surprised me - i thought they'd pull more weight, seeing as the've been incorporated into the Department for Homeland Security)...
Actually, cocaine is a Schedule II drug, not a Schedule I. The scheduling of controlled substances is *supposed* to be based solely on two criteria: medical utility and potential for abuse. Cocaine is still used as a topical anaesthetic in some types of surgery (including ophthalmic, IIRC), and so is assigned to a different schedule than those drugs which are purported to have no medical benefit whatsoever and a high potential for abuse: peyote, heroin, and ostensibly marijuana. (Apparently politics can trump medical reason.)
There's another reason radio stations typically use high compression on their audio - so that listeners (especially those in cars) do not need to make adjustments to their stereo when the volume of the piece (or between pieces, or during commercials) changes drastically...
I recall an article some time ago on/. regarding a plan to transmit power remotely to several Pacific Islands - in my failed attempt to locate more info on that one, i came across several references to an experimental project on Reunion Island to send power wirelessly across a mountain gorge to an isolated village (see, for example, http://www.house.gov/science/maryniak_10-24.htm)...don't know what the results were, or whether the project is still on the drawing board...
This is an oversimplification at best; outright wrong at worst. There are a number of factors that come into play when deciding on tuning an instrument. A major consideration is 'natural' vs. 'equal temperament' tuning. The use of natural tuning allows for more consonance between notes, but one is limited to playing in certain keys/chords. In order to enjoy the freedom of playing any chord or in any key desired, one needs to employ equal temperament tuning (in which every note is equidistant in frequency - this is not the case for natural tunings), with the result being some intervals will not be as consonant as they would be in a natural tuning.
I won't bore you with additional details or the mathematics/physics behind this; suffice to say a good grounding in music theory would dissuade you of the notion that there is a single concept of proper tuning.
Where i work, we are dependent upon Oracle 8.1, with which IE 6 has some incompatibilities, so we stick to IE 5.5. It took months to get Oracle set up properly - are we supposed to do this with every new release, *and* upgrade 2,000+ PCs every time every time IR or any other application is upgraded??
IIAHPP (I am a historic preservation professional), and this is my understanding of how part of this will play out:
An Environmental Impact Statement, including assessment of impact to known or potential historic resources, will need to be filed if any of the following are true:
Federal funding will be utilized
A federal permit will be required
The site sits on federal land
It seems to me that at least two of the above apply.
If the tower is deemed to be eligible (or on!) the National Register of Historic Places, steps will need to be taken to 'mitigate' the impact to this structure. The preferred way is to leave it in place (eliminates impact entirely); alternatively, a HABS (Historic American Building Survey) Recordation might suffice, wherein a comprehensive documentary effort, including the drafting of detailed architectural drawings, is undertaken.
Unless they've already taken this scenario into consideration and are prepared for the associated costs and potential delays, perhaps NASA will back-burner the effort to dismantle the tower; or maybe public opinion of the tower's contribution to our nation's historic heritage will help convince them to shelve the idea.
I use a portable minidisk recorder for recording practice sessions and band gigs - *far* superior to tape, and easier to interface than a DAT.
What i'd really like to know (can't glean from the links mentioned) is if i can directly access tracks recorded in the field from the PC interface - if so, that would be a significant advantage over the current generation of recorders.
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...as is the use of "about to" to describe something 40 million years in the future...
...someone loses an eye!
My local photo lab transfers old 8mm & non-copyrighted VHS to DVD for a pretty reasonable fee...
Robin Williams, not George Carlin, generated that line.
>I imagine those people will just start buying
>tobacco from companies on Native American
>reservations.
Many people already are. I live not far from several Haudenasaune (Iroquois) reservations, which do a brisk business (both brick & mortar and online) selling cartons of cigarettes. As a matter of fact, officials in New York are desperately trying to find ways to tax this resource; it has thus far proved elusive (due to the autonomous nature of the native nations), but a deal might be in the works to allow on-reservation tax collection by the state in exchange for rights to build more casinos on non-reservation land.
My grandmother used to emphasize the absurdity of po siting alternative histories by noting, "If the Queen had balls, she would have been the King!"
>in the worst case scenario I delete something
>that I do indeed plan to watch again, I can
>*gasp* download it again!
With digital rights management looming on the horizon, this is not necessarily so.
Michael Collins' book "Carrying the Fire" (foreward by Charles A. Lindbergh shortly before his death) is a fascinating read, and a good source of insight into his mindset at the time. One of his concerns was the possibility that the LEM, which had not (and could not have) been tested under these circumstances, would fail to get off the moon, stranding Armstrong and Aldrin on the lunar surface to die by slow asphyxiation. It would have been quite the despondent trip home for Collins had this scenario played out.
Dr. Oliver Sacks, in his fascinating "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat", related a case of a group of aphasia and agnosia patients in a group home laughing out during a speech by Ronald Reagan...when Sacks asked them what was so humorous, they told him that Reagan was blatantly lying. Further testing by Sacks led him to believe that these individuals were indeed endowed by their disability with the capacity to distinguish dishonest people.
IINA biochemist, but i understand that drinking distilled water is detrimental to one's health as water stripped of all its impurities strongly attracts certain minerals and compounds, stripping them from your tissues.
"Don't blame Bush. Blame how you voted in the last election (or didn't vote)."
:/
A majority of the electorate (although not, arguably, the electoral college) voted against Bush - he was appointed to the Presidency anyway
Your theory is predicated on everyone being heterosexual - not a safe assumption. Remember, the skipper does refer to Gilligan as his 'little buddy'...
As someone who's taken a number of linguistics courses, i'd like to point out that the techies in India are speaking English *perfectly*...they do not speak it accented by some other primary language, but rather they speak a different dialect of English - just as those from the 'deep south' speak a dialect nearly as unintellible at times to us northerners.
In other words,
1) Destroy airlines
2) ???
3) Profit!
Eight feet is not deep enough to produce the chilling effect on water seen in lakes like the Great Lakes (or upstate New York's Cayuga Lake, where a similar system was installed to provide cooling for Cornell University several years ago).
>I'm not sure how to finish the equation
Nor i - but i got this far:
1) Install CCD cameras in public
2) ???
3) Profit!
>most commercial and military communication in the
>US has moved to satellite; Only smaller services
>(in the west), third world countries, radio
>stations and HAM radio operators use HF
Actually, the U.S. military still makes *heavy* use of the HF portion of the radio spectrum - primary modes are SSB (long-distance voice communications) and ALE (a digital system for sending short messages and for analyzing the reliability of particular frequency). Emergency services, such as FEMA and the Red Cross, also make heavy use of 'shortwave' for their long-distance/emergency communications. FEMA even responded to the FCC's request for comments to argue against deploying BPL, apparently to no effect (which surprised me - i thought they'd pull more weight, seeing as the've been incorporated into the Department for Homeland Security)...
Actually, cocaine is a Schedule II drug, not a Schedule I. The scheduling of controlled substances is *supposed* to be based solely on two criteria: medical utility and potential for abuse. Cocaine is still used as a topical anaesthetic in some types of surgery (including ophthalmic, IIRC), and so is assigned to a different schedule than those drugs which are purported to have no medical benefit whatsoever and a high potential for abuse: peyote, heroin, and ostensibly marijuana. (Apparently politics can trump medical reason.)
if you want to get *really* picky, note that there should be a hyphen inserted; viz: "all-European"
There's another reason radio stations typically use high compression on their audio - so that listeners (especially those in cars) do not need to make adjustments to their stereo when the volume of the piece (or between pieces, or during commercials) changes drastically...
I recall an article some time ago on /. regarding a plan to transmit power remotely to several Pacific Islands - in my failed attempt to locate more info on that one, i came across several references to an experimental project on Reunion Island to send power wirelessly across a mountain gorge to an isolated village (see, for example, http://www.house.gov/science/maryniak_10-24.htm).. .don't know what the results were, or whether the project is still on the drawing board...
>Either the guitar is in tune, or it's not.
This is an oversimplification at best; outright wrong at worst. There are a number of factors that come into play when deciding on tuning an instrument. A major consideration is 'natural' vs. 'equal temperament' tuning. The use of natural tuning allows for more consonance between notes, but one is limited to playing in certain keys/chords. In order to enjoy the freedom of playing any chord or in any key desired, one needs to employ equal temperament tuning (in which every note is equidistant in frequency - this is not the case for natural tunings), with the result being some intervals will not be as consonant as they would be in a natural tuning.
I won't bore you with additional details or the mathematics/physics behind this; suffice to say a good grounding in music theory would dissuade you of the notion that there is a single concept of proper tuning.
Where i work, we are dependent upon Oracle 8.1, with which IE 6 has some incompatibilities, so we stick to IE 5.5. It took months to get Oracle set up properly - are we supposed to do this with every new release, *and* upgrade 2,000+ PCs every time every time IR or any other application is upgraded??
An Environmental Impact Statement, including assessment of impact to known or potential historic resources, will need to be filed if any of the following are true:
- Federal funding will be utilized
- A federal permit will be required
- The site sits on federal land
It seems to me that at least two of the above apply.If the tower is deemed to be eligible (or on!) the National Register of Historic Places, steps will need to be taken to 'mitigate' the impact to this structure. The preferred way is to leave it in place (eliminates impact entirely); alternatively, a HABS (Historic American Building Survey) Recordation might suffice, wherein a comprehensive documentary effort, including the drafting of detailed architectural drawings, is undertaken.
Unless they've already taken this scenario into consideration and are prepared for the associated costs and potential delays, perhaps NASA will back-burner the effort to dismantle the tower; or maybe public opinion of the tower's contribution to our nation's historic heritage will help convince them to shelve the idea.
I use a portable minidisk recorder for recording practice sessions and band gigs - *far* superior to tape, and easier to interface than a DAT.
What i'd really like to know (can't glean from the links mentioned) is if i can directly access tracks recorded in the field from the PC interface - if so, that would be a significant advantage over the current generation of recorders.