I agree on this. When one keeps a closed mind to potentials and possibilities, one allows someone else to find the The Big Discovery.
Or in this case, rediscovery.
If this team in Utah pulls a rabbit out of that deuterium tank, then champagne corks are gonna fly.
The Ponds/Fleischmann deal was half-baked, went off half-cocked with no or poor peer review. The basis seems to hold potential, but so many details need to be worked out before it could be feasible.
Short term - poison, traps, clean up. Dose your cables with Bitter Apple (Vet and pet shops will have this). Use split wiring looms as needed.
Mid term - Traps (Tin Cat repeater traps, Havaharts, Victor snap traps), poison boxes, keep cleaned up.
Long term - Electronic repellers (if you don't have pets, they can be harmful) seal up ANY exterior holes, screen all vent holes, keep food sealed and stored securely, keep your place neat and clean. Keep your traps loaded with fresh bait, refresh your poison baits as well, change locations as needed to eliminate any patterns they might use to get around the traps.
If you live in an rental and the management is tardy in assisting in the issue, get the tenants together in an emergency meeting and call the local heath department as an organization. If you live in a single family rental, contact the city building inspectors.
Go VERY public with your issues, no one likes it when the press starts nosing around in their affairs.
One building has a rodent issue, there will be others that will have them. No one wants the Bubonic (Black) Plague, so why screw around?
This was 3-4 years ago now. I recall when jet can mining was the cats meow and finding a niche in the regional market and making a few million ISK off of it was the Big Deal. I'd build Medium and Large Energy Shield II's and III's and sell them in Amarr space to Caldari drivers for a fine killing. I used to do Cattle Runs, running NPC livestock between systems and stations, buying low and selling high, turning a few million in the process, until they flipped the market upside down and turned Jita system into a Major Trade hub.
That's dirt cheap for a brand new licensed civil aviation aircraft! Consider a used 1996 Columbia loaded to the gills with glass cockpit and anti-icing gear, nearly 300K. But you can latch onto a used Seawind Amphibian for 150K easy, and have the ability to park it on a body of water of your choice and camp on the shore.
One reactor design is made to prevent critical events from forming. Toshiba's 4S reactor. The reactor uses a neutron reflector to bounce neutrons back at the reactor core, heating it up as the reflector moves up and down. The faster the reflector moves, the more energy is produced. Something breaks, meeting SCRAM conditions, the reflector simply stops moving, the reactions stop, moving back down to relative background conditions. The design is modular, the core is sealed at the factory and moved to the site in a single piece containment vessel. Being sodium cooled poses risks, but is manageable.
This design will provide 10 MW @ 75% capacity for 20-30 years.
You cell phone users just don't get it, do you? One of the major reasons why they want you away from your landline service is that they don't have to comply with the state or fed rules, tariffs, and laws forcing them to maintain POTS service even through the worst of weather.
Lose a cell tower? Fine, two weeks to get it back up. Lose a phone line, depending on your state, from 12 hours to a working week in compliance with PUC regulations (in Texas it's 5 days, then Austin gets froggy). Business landline goes down, 3-5 hours, as fast as a tech can get on site after getting pulled from a lower priority job. Business cell service breaks, ok, duh, you get the point now?
What is $15-$25/mo for basic POTS service that is there when you need it in comparison to $60+ cell service that is still not as dependable as we like it to be? I'll keep my POTS service and call forward from it to my cell, keeps the telemarketers at bay.
BF1942- DesertCombat and Eve of Destruction. I played with Action Battlefield and it was funny as hell doing jeep jumps and inverted bridge jumps.
Q2- Rocket Arena! Very competitive mod that was popular with gaming ladders.
RTCW (Return to Castle Wolfenstien) No mods there, unless the admin is on and decides to zero out the gravity, yeesh! One server stands out from the other RTCW servers - Happy Penguin RTCW. They run only one map (Depot) and that's it, unless the admin is at console, then he'll switch it to radar which is decidedly bloody. The folks complain that Depot that it's one-sided. But it really is not, it's how each side is defended and the offensive tactics are handled. I've seen the allies litter the railcars with bodies if someone touches off a panzer just right. Then again in the tunnel, if it gets flooded from either side, it's like bowling with bazookas! You might get 4, or even 6 with a lucky shot if they bunch up. You get a wag with a flamethrower at a chokepoint with medic and a lieut backing him up, he'll be there all day long keeping them honest.
That is until someone gets a lucky shot off with a panzer....
Sprint, and Verizon. The morons got their wireless aircards capped at 5GB. This in particular cripples a lot of folks that rely on high speed, low latency connections and cannot afford the up-front cost of satellite, nor will put up with their crappy service.
Break open the yellow pages and start shopping under ISP's for the local mom n pop operation. My options are slim out where I reside, so I'm considering an extreme measure; a full commercial T1 BRI. No caps, 1.5 up, 1.5 down, I manage it with my own router and servers. The telecoms will grit their teeth and grind them to nubbins but they cannot control or throttle a commercial T1 without due recourse. It's a Tariffed service so if they do throttle, they'll bring the state PUC down on themselves like vultures to a kill.
Last quote I got three weeks ago was 550/mo for 2year contract, no backhaul. I furnish router and routing services. Fine with me, I know where to scoop a Cisco 2500 router on the cheap and OpenDNS is my friend and companion.
It does appear like it's coming down to purchasing our own backbone and they know it. No matter what they do, we will fight for our rights for unlimited service, hands down.
...right now with their G84/G86 GPUs at the moment. They estimate their losses to be in the range of 100-200 million USD. Dell, HP, ACER, Lenovo, and other laptop makers are affected by this with no end, or resolution for the owners of the units containing the defective chips, including yours truly. The failure rate has been measured in either weeks, months or years. Owners of the affected laptops have been buying extended warranties to cover replacement in the event they should fail. Dell has acknowledged this issue but has given no solution either. The other companies have stayed mute on the matter. All of the Dell built laptops that have the faulty chips fail are replaced with laptops with the same GPU in them, no alternatives or options given to the owners.
LAPES is a fine comparison, but they also use drogues to extract very heavy items in airdrops, like hummers and light tanks. The C-17 has a motorized track that can extract payloads, but for something as weighty as a hummer, they cannot afford to have it hanging or hung at the end of the ramp. That kind of center of gravity displacement means big trouble for the aircraft if they can't get rid of it.
Digi, you have hit the nail on the head when you say they are lack understanding of fundamentals for improving the overall quality of life. They MAY look like they are adapting to Western Culture, but this also might be interperted as trying to escape what is Here and Now.
Keep in mind that this is the government that bills the families of executed criminals for materials used. They shoot someone, they bill them for the bullet.
If all this was discussed in front of a Chinese security officer we'd be arrested for conspiracy and put away.
Keep in mind that the Massacre of Tiananmen just didn't just happen on a whim, it was ordered by the Politburo for they were/still am afraid of losing their power base. Many a good soul was snuffed out that night.
The ChiComs still have a lot to learn about the basics.
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I agree on this. When one keeps a closed mind to potentials and possibilities, one allows someone else to find the The Big Discovery.
Or in this case, rediscovery.
If this team in Utah pulls a rabbit out of that deuterium tank, then champagne corks are gonna fly.
The Ponds/Fleischmann deal was half-baked, went off half-cocked with no or poor peer review. The basis seems to hold potential, but so many details need to be worked out before it could be feasible.
Time to sicc Toombs on his rump.
No jail that serves waffle-eating pussies will be for him.
I agree. Quick n dirty, the bots can build a road into the crater and the pad itself at the bottom, using materials on hand.
They are, and will drive you nuts in the process with how they go about their day to day operations.
Short term - poison, traps, clean up. Dose your cables with Bitter Apple (Vet and pet shops will have this). Use split wiring looms as needed.
Mid term - Traps (Tin Cat repeater traps, Havaharts, Victor snap traps), poison boxes, keep cleaned up.
Long term - Electronic repellers (if you don't have pets, they can be harmful) seal up ANY exterior holes, screen all vent holes, keep food sealed and stored securely, keep your place neat and clean. Keep your traps loaded with fresh bait, refresh your poison baits as well, change locations as needed to eliminate any patterns they might use to get around the traps.
If you live in an rental and the management is tardy in assisting in the issue, get the tenants together in an emergency meeting and call the local heath department as an organization. If you live in a single family rental, contact the city building inspectors.
Go VERY public with your issues, no one likes it when the press starts nosing around in their affairs.
One building has a rodent issue, there will be others that will have them. No one wants the Bubonic (Black) Plague, so why screw around?
http://www.doyourownpestcontrol.com/
This was 3-4 years ago now. I recall when jet can mining was the cats meow and finding a niche in the regional market and making a few million ISK off of it was the Big Deal.
I'd build Medium and Large Energy Shield II's and III's and sell them in Amarr space to Caldari drivers for a fine killing.
I used to do Cattle Runs, running NPC livestock between systems and stations, buying low and selling high, turning a few million in the process, until they flipped the market upside down and turned Jita system into a Major Trade hub.
Is rather massive in comparison to the rest of the Union, with the exception of Georgia.
This tells me how much the state has let the telecoms allow the state's infrastructure to rot.
Or we could pull an Untouchables trick. Force the judge to switch juries with another one.
If RIAA got to one jury, they'll blow their tops if that happens.
I wonder if she knew how to multiply.
http://www.apogeenet.net/contact/
I did!
That's dirt cheap for a brand new licensed civil aviation aircraft!
Consider a used 1996 Columbia loaded to the gills with glass cockpit and anti-icing gear, nearly 300K.
But you can latch onto a used Seawind Amphibian for 150K easy, and have the ability to park it on a body of water of your choice and camp on the shore.
One reactor design is made to prevent critical events from forming. Toshiba's 4S reactor. The reactor uses a neutron reflector to bounce neutrons back at the reactor core, heating it up as the reflector moves up and down. The faster the reflector moves, the more energy is produced. Something breaks, meeting SCRAM conditions, the reflector simply stops moving, the reactions stop, moving back down to relative background conditions. The design is modular, the core is sealed at the factory and moved to the site in a single piece containment vessel. Being sodium cooled poses risks, but is manageable.
This design will provide 10 MW @ 75% capacity for 20-30 years.
You cell phone users just don't get it, do you?
One of the major reasons why they want you away from your landline service is that they don't have to comply with the state or fed rules, tariffs, and laws forcing them to maintain POTS service even through the worst of weather.
Lose a cell tower? Fine, two weeks to get it back up.
Lose a phone line, depending on your state, from 12 hours to a working week in compliance with PUC regulations (in Texas it's 5 days, then Austin gets froggy).
Business landline goes down, 3-5 hours, as fast as a tech can get on site after getting pulled from a lower priority job.
Business cell service breaks, ok, duh, you get the point now?
What is $15-$25/mo for basic POTS service that is there when you need it in comparison to $60+ cell service that is still not as dependable as we like it to be?
I'll keep my POTS service and call forward from it to my cell, keeps the telemarketers at bay.
When his gauges pegged at the upper limits and his torquemeter went to zero when he breached the wall of the chamber.
Is the one that stepped or rolled over your foot.
Oh don't get me started on that one! That and Jupiter Lander, both wasted my time as a youngster until Frogger and GEOS came out.
*Cues Gigglebox* Can't wait for the port!
You are FIRED!
Next career, make sure your brain is engaged BEFORE you open your mouth.
That goes for the the rest of the trolls, both on and off /.
BF1942- DesertCombat and Eve of Destruction. I played with Action Battlefield and it was funny as hell doing jeep jumps and inverted bridge jumps.
Q2- Rocket Arena! Very competitive mod that was popular with gaming ladders.
RTCW (Return to Castle Wolfenstien) No mods there, unless the admin is on and decides to zero out the gravity, yeesh!
One server stands out from the other RTCW servers - Happy Penguin RTCW. They run only one map (Depot) and that's it, unless the admin is at console, then he'll switch it to radar which is decidedly bloody. The folks complain that Depot that it's one-sided. But it really is not, it's how each side is defended and the offensive tactics are handled. I've seen the allies litter the railcars with bodies if someone touches off a panzer just right. Then again in the tunnel, if it gets flooded from either side, it's like bowling with bazookas! You might get 4, or even 6 with a lucky shot if they bunch up. You get a wag with a flamethrower at a chokepoint with medic and a lieut backing him up, he'll be there all day long keeping them honest.
That is until someone gets a lucky shot off with a panzer....
Here comes the flood of complaints that their systems are slow, not responsive or too busy.
We have gunfights with our encryption client almost on a daily basis, being a resource hog and all that.
Sprint, and Verizon. The morons got their wireless aircards capped at 5GB. This in particular cripples a lot of folks that rely on high speed, low latency connections and cannot afford the up-front cost of satellite, nor will put up with their crappy service.
Break open the yellow pages and start shopping under ISP's for the local mom n pop operation.
My options are slim out where I reside, so I'm considering an extreme measure; a full commercial T1 BRI. No caps, 1.5 up, 1.5 down, I manage it with my own router and servers. The telecoms will grit their teeth and grind them to nubbins but they cannot control or throttle a commercial T1 without due recourse. It's a Tariffed service so if they do throttle, they'll bring the state PUC down on themselves like vultures to a kill.
Last quote I got three weeks ago was 550/mo for 2year contract, no backhaul. I furnish router and routing services. Fine with me, I know where to scoop a Cisco 2500 router on the cheap and OpenDNS is my friend and companion.
It does appear like it's coming down to purchasing our own backbone and they know it. No matter what they do, we will fight for our rights for unlimited service, hands down.
...right now with their G84/G86 GPUs at the moment. They estimate their losses to be in the range of 100-200 million USD. Dell, HP, ACER, Lenovo, and other laptop makers are affected by this with no end, or resolution for the owners of the units containing the defective chips, including yours truly.
The failure rate has been measured in either weeks, months or years. Owners of the affected laptops have been buying extended warranties to cover replacement in the event they should fail.
Dell has acknowledged this issue but has given no solution either. The other companies have stayed mute on the matter. All of the Dell built laptops that have the faulty chips fail are replaced with laptops with the same GPU in them, no alternatives or options given to the owners.
LAPES is a fine comparison, but they also use drogues to extract very heavy items in airdrops, like hummers and light tanks. The C-17 has a motorized track that can extract payloads, but for something as weighty as a hummer, they cannot afford to have it hanging or hung at the end of the ramp. That kind of center of gravity displacement means big trouble for the aircraft if they can't get rid of it.
We got capped in a godawful manner by our ISP's.
That's all.
Nothing else to see here, move along now.
Digi, you have hit the nail on the head when you say they are lack understanding of fundamentals for improving the overall quality of life. They MAY look like they are adapting to Western Culture, but this also might be interperted as trying to escape what is Here and Now.
Keep in mind that this is the government that bills the families of executed criminals for materials used. They shoot someone, they bill them for the bullet.
If all this was discussed in front of a Chinese security officer we'd be arrested for conspiracy and put away.
Keep in mind that the Massacre of Tiananmen just didn't just happen on a whim, it was ordered by the Politburo for they were/still am afraid of losing their power base. Many a good soul was snuffed out that night.
The ChiComs still have a lot to learn about the basics.