War sucks, yes. Without a doubt. I hope to never fight in one. But why are vietnam games in such 'bad taste' as opposed to the other war games? How is say, Vietcong (or whatever the name of that recent FPS is)different from MOH: Allied Assault? Is it ok to play a game where you shoot Germans, but not orientals?
"Yeah, lets play the final wrapup, where no matter what your characters do, they are all going to DIE in a massive battle that they can ultimately do nothing to change."
I worked in Springfield Vt's manufacturing plant. It was neat at first, but then it became like any other job. I stood at a conveyer belt and put peace pops into boxes for 8 hours a day. Real thrilling. But the process was kind of interesting. There was a giant vat that the cream and other ingredients were mixed in, then onto a machine that turned them into a somewhat frozen state and ploped them onto a belt. Then sticks were placed in the ice cream, and it went through a long freezer to shock cool them. After spending 10 or so minutes in this freezer, they came out, and were picked up and dipped into molten chocolate. The chocolate dried quickly, and off into the wrapper they went. Then out of that machine and down to me, where i stuck them in boxes.
It was decent work for VT, and not too stressful. Plus they made us eat ice cream every day for quality assurance. Sounds nice, but try eating a peace pop every day for 3 months, you get absolutely sick of them very quickly.
I think there is a plant up in Waterburry VT where you can see ice cream being made, and it is kind of neat to watch for a few minutes.
I was living in florida at the time it was launched, and myself and some friends of mine took an impromptu trip to go see the launch. It was a very cloudy morning, but man, even still it was an awsome experience. The light from the rocket was very bright, so much that you had to shield your eyes, and the sound, even from five miles away was so loud it shook your chest. If you ever get the chance to see a launch, go for it. It is worth seeing.
Its a interesting and at times funny, and at other times very sad and scary film. He makes a good point in saying that Canada, which has almost as many guns per capita as the US has almost no gun violence. It still may be in some theaters, so if you can find it, do so.
Yeah, sorry. I ment pounds, not gallons. Thats what happens when you post to slashdot without your morning coffee.
Generaly though, i perfer 17 pounds of honey in my meads, for a semi sweet drink. Anything after 15 pounds the yeast cannot ferment (they die in the alcohol), leaving a sweet, but not overpowerful taste. I would not go over 17 pounds, since that makes it very sweet. Personaly, for me, semi sweet is good enough, and the ladies love it.
And if you want to be very out there, try using maple syrup instead of honey. I had it once and found it to be odd, but very good.
For the first timer, even beer can be a little complex. However, there is nothing more simple than mead.
Take 17 gallons of honey, toss it into a carboy. Add water to fill up carboy to neck. Add wine or sherry yeast. Come back in a year.
Its almost that simple. Ok, you could boil the mixture if you wanted, that tends to make it smoother and clearer faster. And add fruits or spices if you desire. And of course rack it every few months. But other than that...
Btw, for those of you who like to read the manual for these sort of things before diving into it, I cannot recomend enough Charles Papazian's great book 'The New Complete Joy of Home Brewing'. It probably is one of the most important books that started the recent fad, and its well worth getting.
Someone correct me if I am wrong (And i think i am), but was not the justice department investigating the major cell providers for illigaly forcing customers to only use certain cell phones? For example, that nice new shiny Nokia I want will only work with AT&T wireless, not Sprint or Verizon. That, and some back door deals with the cell phone makers to restrict options raised some eyebrows, if i remember right.
The bank can now tell me what software I can and cannot run on my computer? How I run my computer is MY business, and if I choose to block ads, that is my right, since it is MY computer, MY bandwidth and MY choice. I don't give two shakes if they want to make more money off me. Maybe if they would split 50/50 with me anything they make from it, I might consider it, but otherwise, push off jack.
Lets say you work for a large company, with say 10,000 people. 10,000 people * 10 spams a day (low number, but lets go with that for now) = 100,000 spam emails a day. Thats a lot of spam. Now, lets say that each spam is about 10kb. 10kb * 100,000 spams = 1000000kb, or (1000000/1024) 976 megabytes of spam. Almost a gig of spam a day.
Now your company does not have a free pipeline to the internet. Lets assume for the sake of argument that they have to pay by the meg. Lets (wildly) assume that your company has to pay 15 cents per megabyte of traffic through their ISP..15 * 976 = $146.40. That may not sound that much, but over the course of a year that makes out to be about $53,436.
Of course, thats just in internet feed charges. Assume that it takes the average person one second to read and delete a spam. With an average of 10 spams a day, thats ((10,000 * 10)/60) 1666.67 minutes per day, or 27.78 hours per day wasted on spam. Say the average person makes $20 dollars an hour, or about $40,000 a year. 27.78 * 20=$555.56 a day in lost time. Over a year, thats $202,777.78 in time lost to spam. Ouch.
So all those penis enlarger and diet spams are costing your company $256,000 a year. Multiply that by all the companies in the world that get spam, and you have a major financial burden
Unfortunatly this is not a quick change. This is a gradual decline since the 1980's.
This is a very scary thing. I remember my bio teacher in high school saying that the plankton were responsible for the majority of the co2 -> 02 conversions. They also feed fish and whales. If they continue to drop, we may soon have dead lifeless oceans. I'm not trying to sound like a fear monger, but...
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I'm just waiting for someone to start defacing the Microsoft booth. This will make us look REALLLY good to the corporate world.
Any of you astrophysics types out there, can you help me with this? Do you think that the whole concept of dark matter is in a lot more danger now that billions of new galaxy's will come to light? This seriously must tip the size and weight of the universe.
It also makes all problems here on earth seem so petty and insignificant compared to the grand scheme of things.
This is no different than companies using spyware to monitor employees, or reading their email or whatever. The computer, if given to the professor, is the property of the university, and they can do with it what they wish, including reading her email. Would I be annoyed if this happened to me? Sure, but what could I do about it? Now if this was her private computer it would be another matter.
But people will still get into a lather over this I'm sure.
Its worse than you think. Just for yourself, thats one thing, but when you look at it in another light, its far far worse.
Lets say you work for a large company, with say 10,000 people. 10,000 people * 10 spams a day (low number, but lets go with that for now) = 100,000 spam emails a day. Thats a lot of spam. Now, lets say that each spam is about 10kb. 10kb * 100,000 spams = 1000000kb, or (1000000/1024) 976 megabytes of spam. Almost a gig of spam a day.
Now your company does not have a free pipeline to the internet. Lets assume for the sake of argument that they have to pay by the meg. Lets (wildly) assume that your company has to pay 15 cents per megabyte of traffic through their ISP..15 * 976 = $146.40. That may not sound that much, but over the course of a year that makes out to be about $53,436.
Of course, thats just in internet feed charges. Assume that it takes the average person one second to read and delete a spam. With an average of 10 spams a day, thats ((10,000 * 10)/60) 1666.67 minutes per day, or 27.78 hours per day wasted on spam. Say the average person makes $20 dollars an hour, or about $40,000 a year. 27.78 * 20=$555.56 a day in lost time. Over a year, thats $202,777.78 in time lost to spam. Ouch.
So all those penis enlarger and diet spams are costing your company $256,000 a year. Multiply that by all the companies in the world that get spam, and you have a major financial burden.
Someone please explain to me how they can use radio carbon dating on the bush? It was my understanding that RCD could tell the age of things because it counted the number of carbon 14 isotopes left in the item. As time goes on, that isotope decays, and that can tell an age. However, because its still alive, isnt its supply of carbon 14 still being replenished?
Piracy. It seems to evoke some romantic image of sailing the seven seas, drinking rum and singing sea shanties. People, when told 'you are a software pirate' seem to shrug it off. Call it its real name, and you can change people's minds.
Are there plans for another Evil dead movie, or is that the end of the line. And if there was plans for another one, would you be interested in bringing back Ash?
As reported on lindqvist, the source is in fact the 12th image of Binladen shown by google. In fact, if you do a image search yourself you can see Bert in all his evil glory.
To defend John, I too went into the city to view things (I live right across the river in Jersey.) Sometimes we have to view things with our own eyes, and not on TV. I could not get below Hudson street, as cops had everything blocked off. Even if John was able to get close, everything would be roped off and cops all over the place to keep civilians away. Its not like he was going and poking around rubble, give him a rest.
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It is a phone number. 310-338-3665. When you call, you hear Bruce giving his Elvis impression talking about the movie. Try it. :)
Yeah, used to be in the weehawken CC before they closed it.
War sucks, yes. Without a doubt. I hope to never fight in one. But why are vietnam games in such 'bad taste' as opposed to the other war games? How is say, Vietcong (or whatever the name of that recent FPS is)different from MOH: Allied Assault? Is it ok to play a game where you shoot Germans, but not orientals?
The frame on the left side looked exactly like 'bug online'.
"Yeah, lets play the final wrapup, where no matter what your characters do, they are all going to DIE in a massive battle that they can ultimately do nothing to change."
*grin*
I worked in Springfield Vt's manufacturing plant. It was neat at first, but then it became like any other job. I stood at a conveyer belt and put peace pops into boxes for 8 hours a day. Real thrilling. But the process was kind of interesting. There was a giant vat that the cream and other ingredients were mixed in, then onto a machine that turned them into a somewhat frozen state and ploped them onto a belt. Then sticks were placed in the ice cream, and it went through a long freezer to shock cool them. After spending 10 or so minutes in this freezer, they came out, and were picked up and dipped into molten chocolate. The chocolate dried quickly, and off into the wrapper they went. Then out of that machine and down to me, where i stuck them in boxes.
It was decent work for VT, and not too stressful. Plus they made us eat ice cream every day for quality assurance. Sounds nice, but try eating a peace pop every day for 3 months, you get absolutely sick of them very quickly.
I think there is a plant up in Waterburry VT where you can see ice cream being made, and it is kind of neat to watch for a few minutes.
I was living in florida at the time it was launched, and myself and some friends of mine took an impromptu trip to go see the launch. It was a very cloudy morning, but man, even still it was an awsome experience. The light from the rocket was very bright, so much that you had to shield your eyes, and the sound, even from five miles away was so loud it shook your chest. If you ever get the chance to see a launch, go for it. It is worth seeing.
Its a interesting and at times funny, and at other times very sad and scary film. He makes a good point in saying that Canada, which has almost as many guns per capita as the US has almost no gun violence. It still may be in some theaters, so if you can find it, do so.
Yeah, sorry. I ment pounds, not gallons. Thats what happens when you post to slashdot without your morning coffee.
Generaly though, i perfer 17 pounds of honey in my meads, for a semi sweet drink. Anything after 15 pounds the yeast cannot ferment (they die in the alcohol), leaving a sweet, but not overpowerful taste. I would not go over 17 pounds, since that makes it very sweet. Personaly, for me, semi sweet is good enough, and the ladies love it.
And if you want to be very out there, try using maple syrup instead of honey. I had it once and found it to be odd, but very good.
For the first timer, even beer can be a little complex. However, there is nothing more simple than mead.
Take 17 gallons of honey, toss it into a carboy. Add water to fill up carboy to neck. Add wine or sherry yeast. Come back in a year.
Its almost that simple. Ok, you could boil the mixture if you wanted, that tends to make it smoother and clearer faster. And add fruits or spices if you desire. And of course rack it every few months. But other than that...
Btw, for those of you who like to read the manual for these sort of things before diving into it, I cannot recomend enough Charles Papazian's great book 'The New Complete Joy of Home Brewing'. It probably is one of the most important books that started the recent fad, and its well worth getting.
Someone correct me if I am wrong (And i think i am), but was not the justice department investigating the major cell providers for illigaly forcing customers to only use certain cell phones? For example, that nice new shiny Nokia I want will only work with AT&T wireless, not Sprint or Verizon. That, and some back door deals with the cell phone makers to restrict options raised some eyebrows, if i remember right.
The bank can now tell me what software I can and cannot run on my computer? How I run my computer is MY business, and if I choose to block ads, that is my right, since it is MY computer, MY bandwidth and MY choice. I don't give two shakes if they want to make more money off me. Maybe if they would split 50/50 with me anything they make from it, I might consider it, but otherwise, push off jack.
Lets say you work for a large company, with say 10,000 people. 10,000 people * 10 spams a day (low number, but lets go with that for now) = 100,000 spam emails a day. Thats a lot of spam. Now, lets say that each spam is about 10kb. 10kb * 100,000 spams = 1000000kb, or (1000000/1024) 976 megabytes of spam. Almost a gig of spam a day.
.15 * 976 = $146.40. That may not sound that much, but over the course of a year that makes out to be about $53,436.
Now your company does not have a free pipeline to the internet. Lets assume for the sake of argument that they have to pay by the meg. Lets (wildly) assume that your company has to pay 15 cents per megabyte of traffic through their ISP.
Of course, thats just in internet feed charges. Assume that it takes the average person one second to read and delete a spam. With an average of 10 spams a day, thats ((10,000 * 10)/60) 1666.67 minutes per day, or 27.78 hours per day wasted on spam. Say the average person makes $20 dollars an hour, or about $40,000 a year. 27.78 * 20=$555.56 a day in lost time. Over a year, thats $202,777.78 in time lost to spam. Ouch.
So all those penis enlarger and diet spams are costing your company $256,000 a year. Multiply that by all the companies in the world that get spam, and you have a major financial burden
Unfortunatly this is not a quick change. This is a gradual decline since the 1980's.
This is a very scary thing. I remember my bio teacher in high school saying that the plankton were responsible for the majority of the co2 -> 02 conversions. They also feed fish and whales. If they continue to drop, we may soon have dead lifeless oceans. I'm not trying to sound like a fear monger, but...
I'm just waiting for someone to start defacing the Microsoft booth. This will make us look REALLLY good to the corporate world.
I have a rather silly question but....
If the RIAA DOS's someone, is that not also causing annoyance to the victem's ISP, and all the people who use the same routers and bridges?
I mean, if my ping times go up because the RIAA is off hammering a p2p user, I will be extreamly annoyed.
Any of you astrophysics types out there, can you help me with this? Do you think that the whole concept of dark matter is in a lot more danger now that billions of new galaxy's will come to light? This seriously must tip the size and weight of the universe.
It also makes all problems here on earth seem so petty and insignificant compared to the grand scheme of things.
This is no different than companies using spyware to monitor employees, or reading their email or whatever. The computer, if given to the professor, is the property of the university, and they can do with it what they wish, including reading her email. Would I be annoyed if this happened to me? Sure, but what could I do about it? Now if this was her private computer it would be another matter.
But people will still get into a lather over this I'm sure.
Its worse than you think. Just for yourself, thats one thing, but when you look at it in another light, its far far worse.
.15 * 976 = $146.40. That may not sound that much, but over the course of a year that makes out to be about $53,436.
Lets say you work for a large company, with say 10,000 people. 10,000 people * 10 spams a day (low number, but lets go with that for now) = 100,000 spam emails a day. Thats a lot of spam. Now, lets say that each spam is about 10kb. 10kb * 100,000 spams = 1000000kb, or (1000000/1024) 976 megabytes of spam. Almost a gig of spam a day.
Now your company does not have a free pipeline to the internet. Lets assume for the sake of argument that they have to pay by the meg. Lets (wildly) assume that your company has to pay 15 cents per megabyte of traffic through their ISP.
Of course, thats just in internet feed charges. Assume that it takes the average person one second to read and delete a spam. With an average of 10 spams a day, thats ((10,000 * 10)/60) 1666.67 minutes per day, or 27.78 hours per day wasted on spam. Say the average person makes $20 dollars an hour, or about $40,000 a year. 27.78 * 20=$555.56 a day in lost time. Over a year, thats $202,777.78 in time lost to spam. Ouch.
So all those penis enlarger and diet spams are costing your company $256,000 a year. Multiply that by all the companies in the world that get spam, and you have a major financial burden.
Its about time my kids can get a womb with a view!
*rimshot*
Someone please explain to me how they can use radio carbon dating on the bush? It was my understanding that RCD could tell the age of things because it counted the number of carbon 14 isotopes left in the item. As time goes on, that isotope decays, and that can tell an age. However, because its still alive, isnt its supply of carbon 14 still being replenished?
Piracy. It seems to evoke some romantic image of sailing the seven seas, drinking rum and singing sea shanties. People, when told 'you are a software pirate' seem to shrug it off. Call it its real name, and you can change people's minds.
Its not piracy, its stealing.
Are there plans for another Evil dead movie, or is that the end of the line. And if there was plans for another one, would you be interested in bringing back Ash?
As reported on lindqvist, the source is in fact the 12th image of Binladen shown by google. In fact, if you do a image search yourself you can see Bert in all his evil glory.
To defend John, I too went into the city to view things (I live right across the river in Jersey.) Sometimes we have to view things with our own eyes, and not on TV. I could not get below Hudson street, as cops had everything blocked off. Even if John was able to get close, everything would be roped off and cops all over the place to keep civilians away. Its not like he was going and poking around rubble, give him a rest.