I had a slow Saturday and just finished watching the 3 completed shows (all for free on YouTube!), and I was very much entertained by what a fantastic job they did! Especially when considering how tight their budget must be (the end credits have a blurb about how 'no money' is being made from this show).
The look and feel of the TV show is preserved, from the background music to how the way the show was lit. The actor who originally played the god Apollo is re-cast in the first episode, green skinned alien women in the second show, and the third has final closure to what happened to the Harkonnens after the episode 'Mirror Mirror' ended. Goateed Spock is back!
If you were ever a fan of Star Trek, you'll enjoy these remakes.
According to TFA, they sensed low level harmonics in the atmosphere long before the storms arrived...
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The most likely tip-off was the deep rumble that tornadoes produce, well below what humans can hear.
Noise in this "infrasound" range travels thousands of kilometres, and may serve as something of an early warning system for animals that can pick it up.
"It's very unlikely that this species is the only group doing this," Dr Streby said.
Even from casual birdwatching in the area as the storm drew nearer, he said, "It seemed like there were far fewer birds - so I suspect it's not a species-specific trait." "
Somehow the mechanical 'hook' gets bypassed in some versions of the 'ID'. Someone here who is more knowledgeable than I might be able to explain it is done. A quick search of "infinity device" brought up these links...
Nice! (From your link): A slider is a small rectangular piece of fabric with a grommet near each corner used to control the deployment of a "ram-air" parachute. A ram-air parachute has a tendency to open very rapidly. At high velocities, the opening shock from such a rapid deployment can cause damage to the canopy or injury to the jumper. The slider was developed as a way of mitigating this. During deployment, the slider slides down from the canopy to just above the risers. It is slowed by air resistance as it descends and reduces the rate at which the lines can spread and therefore the speed at which the canopy can open and inflate.[1] This invention solved the rapid deployment problem with ram-air designs. Sliders also reduce the chance of the lines twisting to cause a malfunction.
Except with the land line, someone has to go find your physical wire pair and connect to it. This is a software hack.
As far back to (at least) the 1970's/80's there was the "Infinity device". You connected it between your phone and landline, dial any number and that phone would connect without ringing. This allowed the person using the device to eavesdrop on the conversation in the room the target phone was located.
(From Wiki):
An infinity transmitter (also known as a harmonica bug) is a surveillance device used to covertly monitor conversation in a room through a telephone line. Its name derives from the fact that, by using a telephone line as a transmitter, it can work at an infinite distance, unlike other bugging devices that have only a finite signal range. The alternative name 'harmonica bug' refers to the fact that such devices were originally activated using the tone produced by a harmonica.
Design of infinity transmitters has varied, according to developments in telephone systems. In some instances, the bug is activated after the target answers and hangs up their phone. In countries where there is a delay between connection and the first ring, the bug can be activated before the target phone rings, so that the infinity transmitter essentially 'answers' the call. In more advanced systems, the transmitter can be placed in a parallel telephone line to prevent the victim's phone line remaining engaged. As modern telephone lines no longer establish a voice path until the call is answered a variant of this now exists that uses CND, or caller ID. Usually an unusual sequence of non printing characters is used and thus will not show up on a display device. Sometimes the caller ID device itself has the bug but it can be nearly anywhere. In much the same manner a cellphone can be configured for silence on ring and auto answer and hidden, frequently placed inside something that has power available to maintain the battery. This allows the infinity transmitter to be hidden inside an automobile or other location where a land line is not an option.
Not this garbage again.
If this is true please answer this.
Where are Hearst vast forests? Plesae give coordinates so far there is more proof of the elephant graveyard. However you can easily find receipts of his newspaper companies purchasing large quantities of paper and of the paper companies purchasing wood.
Since there are no vast Hearst forests he then had to be the stupidest business man in history since he was throwing away a resource that would of resulted in cheaper production costs for him.
The reason later laws, the 1937 was a taxation law, passed was not some mythical Hearst stopping it but that the public got upset with the stories and effect on people it was causing.
One comment up, an AC posted this: "Hearst's forest land in Mexico was nationalized in 1937, just as they nationalized oil lands in 1938. No wonder Hearst hated Mexicans. And with high unemployment there was unreasoning hatred over jobs, just as now, even though most americans didn't do agricultural work, just as now. The forests no longer exist because most of them have since been cut down. Much of that was done illegally by drug cartels. The 1937 law was a prohibition masquerading as a tax.
The garbage is the propaganda campaign that resulted, and which you have apparently swallowed whole. Reefer Madness."
This was the beginning of the demonizing of hemp/marijuana. Those wealthy men then had an (erroneous) belief that their dynasties were being threatened by hemp. They purposely used the word "marijuana" in their anti-hemp campaigns because it was a foreign (Mexican) sounding word that scared people far more than the word "hemp". Marijuana would corrupt our youth and lead to dark-skinned men defiling our white women/ daughters. All of this and more due to now dead white men who (then) were feeling their source of income was being threatened.
This whole criminalization debacle was started by paper magnate William Randolph Hearst and his buddies to keep hemp from competing with their product. Why U.S. citizens are still jailed for pot in this day and age is idiotic, we aren't living in the 1930's anymore, are we?
(From Wiki) - Regulations and restrictions on the sale of cannabis sativa as a drug began as early as 1860 (see Legal history of cannabis in the United States). The head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN), Harry J. Anslinger, argued that, in the 1930s, the FBN had noticed an increase of reports of people smoking marijuana. He had also, in 1935, received support from president Franklin D. Roosevelt for adoption of the Uniform State Narcotic Act, state laws that included regulations of cannabis.
The total production of hemp fiber in the United States had in 1933 decreased to around 500 tons/year. Cultivation of hemp began to increase in 1934 and 1935 but production remained at very low volume compared with other fibers.
Some parties have argued that the aim of the Act was to reduce the size of the hemp industry largely as an effort of businessmen Andrew Mellon, Randolph Hearst, and the Du Pont family. The same parties have argued that with the invention of the decorticator, hemp had become a very cheap substitute for the paper pulp that was used in the newspaper industry. These parties argue that Hearst felt that this was a threat to his extensive timber holdings. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury and the wealthiest man in America, had invested heavily in the Du Pont family's new synthetic fiber, nylon, a fiber that was competing with hemp. In 1916, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) chief scientists Jason L. Merrill and Lyster H. Dewey created a paper, USDA Bulletin No. 404 "Hemp Hurds as Paper-Making Material", in which they concluded that paper from the woody inner portion of the hemp stem broken into pieces, so called hemp hurds, was "favorable in comparison with those used with pulp wood". Dewey and Merrill believed that hemp hurds were a suitable source for paper production. However, later research does not confirm this. The concentration of cellulose in hemp hurds is only between 32% and 38% (not 77%, a number often repeated by Jack Herer and others on the Internet). Manufacture of paper with hemp as a raw material has shown that hemp lacks the qualities needed to become a major competitor to the traditional paper industry, which still uses wood or waste paper as raw material. In 2003, 95% of the hemp hurds in the EU were used for animal bedding, almost 5% were used as building material.
"Team America" Gets Post-Hack Yanking At Alamo Drafthouse, Too
And from your link:
Update: On Thursday, multiple theaters, including the Alamo Drafthouse in Dallas/Fort Worth, stated that screenings of Team America have been canceled.
I would guess not. (posted from a phone on a work break) I thought Texas was supposed to be a state that had balls. Guess not.
Sony hack: Obama considers 'proportional response' against North Korea
The White House calls the hacking of the Sony studio a "serious national security matter," while Hollywood stars compare cancellation of The Interview to Neville Chamberlain's'appeasement of Adolf Hitler and a second film called Pyongyang is also pulled.
1. Mythbusters (and others) have already tested this in real life (not a computer program) and said they could have survived.
2. They could have survived, but they didn't survive. Unless they lived out the rest of their lives in isolation; we would have heard something from them.
No bodies were ever found, which is evidence of them making it to land. Life on Alcatraz is something you'd avoid going back to at all costs, including learning to live a low key, law abiding life.
Your post references many good points that the public at large was not aware of before. The people behind the revelations, the hackers, may always be anonymous. I do not pretend to have all the answers. My point related to what I would do morally if I had access to data that didn't belong to me. However, the question seems to be : If I was given personal/company data that showed a serious crime was comitted, am I responsible to report the alledged crime?
Nothing too earth shattering, so far. What has been leaked so far shows that some Sony employees have derogatory feelings towards people of other races, and that Angelina Jolie acts like a spoiled brat. Stay tuned though, I'm sure there's more to come (munches popcorn)....
Nothing too earth shattering, so far. What has been leaked so far shows that some Sony employees have derogatory feelings towards people of other races, and that Angelina Jolie acts like a spoiled brat. Stay tuned though, I'm sure there's more to come (munches popcorn)....
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The look and feel of the TV show is preserved, from the background music to how the way the show was lit. The actor who originally played the god Apollo is re-cast in the first episode, green skinned alien women in the second show, and the third has final closure to what happened to the Harkonnens after the episode 'Mirror Mirror' ended. Goateed Spock is back!
If you were ever a fan of Star Trek, you'll enjoy these remakes.
http://i.imgur.com/ptO7EoX.gif
...what ruffled THEIR feathers?
According to TFA, they sensed low level harmonics in the atmosphere long before the storms arrived...
" The most likely tip-off was the deep rumble that tornadoes produce, well below what humans can hear. Noise in this "infrasound" range travels thousands of kilometres, and may serve as something of an early warning system for animals that can pick it up. "It's very unlikely that this species is the only group doing this," Dr Streby said. Even from casual birdwatching in the area as the storm drew nearer, he said, "It seemed like there were far fewer birds - so I suspect it's not a species-specific trait." "
"...the next one caught on my quickly." (?)
http://spy-nexus.com/bug-guide... http://spy-nexus.com/bug-guide...
http://www.talkingelectronics....
http://www.ehow.com/how_743793...
That time that it takes for the main chutes to fully open has got to be a real nailbiter.
I could be by design... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
Nice! (From your link): A slider is a small rectangular piece of fabric with a grommet near each corner used to control the deployment of a "ram-air" parachute. A ram-air parachute has a tendency to open very rapidly. At high velocities, the opening shock from such a rapid deployment can cause damage to the canopy or injury to the jumper. The slider was developed as a way of mitigating this. During deployment, the slider slides down from the canopy to just above the risers. It is slowed by air resistance as it descends and reduces the rate at which the lines can spread and therefore the speed at which the canopy can open and inflate.[1] This invention solved the rapid deployment problem with ram-air designs. Sliders also reduce the chance of the lines twisting to cause a malfunction.
How feasible would it be to tow an aerodynamic battery 'trailer' for extended range?
That time that it takes for the main chutes to fully open has got to be a real nailbiter.
You can comment on a story that you're moderating only as an AC, after you've signed out completely.
Except with the land line, someone has to go find your physical wire pair and connect to it. This is a software hack.
As far back to (at least) the 1970's/80's there was the "Infinity device". You connected it between your phone and landline, dial any number and that phone would connect without ringing. This allowed the person using the device to eavesdrop on the conversation in the room the target phone was located.
(From Wiki): An infinity transmitter (also known as a harmonica bug) is a surveillance device used to covertly monitor conversation in a room through a telephone line. Its name derives from the fact that, by using a telephone line as a transmitter, it can work at an infinite distance, unlike other bugging devices that have only a finite signal range. The alternative name 'harmonica bug' refers to the fact that such devices were originally activated using the tone produced by a harmonica. Design of infinity transmitters has varied, according to developments in telephone systems. In some instances, the bug is activated after the target answers and hangs up their phone. In countries where there is a delay between connection and the first ring, the bug can be activated before the target phone rings, so that the infinity transmitter essentially 'answers' the call. In more advanced systems, the transmitter can be placed in a parallel telephone line to prevent the victim's phone line remaining engaged. As modern telephone lines no longer establish a voice path until the call is answered a variant of this now exists that uses CND, or caller ID. Usually an unusual sequence of non printing characters is used and thus will not show up on a display device. Sometimes the caller ID device itself has the bug but it can be nearly anywhere. In much the same manner a cellphone can be configured for silence on ring and auto answer and hidden, frequently placed inside something that has power available to maintain the battery. This allows the infinity transmitter to be hidden inside an automobile or other location where a land line is not an option.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...
Not this garbage again. If this is true please answer this. Where are Hearst vast forests? Plesae give coordinates so far there is more proof of the elephant graveyard. However you can easily find receipts of his newspaper companies purchasing large quantities of paper and of the paper companies purchasing wood. Since there are no vast Hearst forests he then had to be the stupidest business man in history since he was throwing away a resource that would of resulted in cheaper production costs for him. The reason later laws, the 1937 was a taxation law, passed was not some mythical Hearst stopping it but that the public got upset with the stories and effect on people it was causing.
One comment up, an AC posted this: "Hearst's forest land in Mexico was nationalized in 1937, just as they nationalized oil lands in 1938. No wonder Hearst hated Mexicans. And with high unemployment there was unreasoning hatred over jobs, just as now, even though most americans didn't do agricultural work, just as now. The forests no longer exist because most of them have since been cut down. Much of that was done illegally by drug cartels. The 1937 law was a prohibition masquerading as a tax.
http://www.druglibrary.org/sch...
The garbage is the propaganda campaign that resulted, and which you have apparently swallowed whole. Reefer Madness."
This was the beginning of the demonizing of hemp/marijuana. Those wealthy men then had an (erroneous) belief that their dynasties were being threatened by hemp. They purposely used the word "marijuana" in their anti-hemp campaigns because it was a foreign (Mexican) sounding word that scared people far more than the word "hemp". Marijuana would corrupt our youth and lead to dark-skinned men defiling our white women/ daughters. All of this and more due to now dead white men who (then) were feeling their source of income was being threatened.
"That's the most important part. We cannot be told we can't see something by Kim Jong Un, of all f***ing people." - George Clooney
(From Wiki) - Regulations and restrictions on the sale of cannabis sativa as a drug began as early as 1860 (see Legal history of cannabis in the United States). The head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN), Harry J. Anslinger, argued that, in the 1930s, the FBN had noticed an increase of reports of people smoking marijuana. He had also, in 1935, received support from president Franklin D. Roosevelt for adoption of the Uniform State Narcotic Act, state laws that included regulations of cannabis. The total production of hemp fiber in the United States had in 1933 decreased to around 500 tons/year. Cultivation of hemp began to increase in 1934 and 1935 but production remained at very low volume compared with other fibers.
Some parties have argued that the aim of the Act was to reduce the size of the hemp industry largely as an effort of businessmen Andrew Mellon, Randolph Hearst, and the Du Pont family. The same parties have argued that with the invention of the decorticator, hemp had become a very cheap substitute for the paper pulp that was used in the newspaper industry. These parties argue that Hearst felt that this was a threat to his extensive timber holdings. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury and the wealthiest man in America, had invested heavily in the Du Pont family's new synthetic fiber, nylon, a fiber that was competing with hemp. In 1916, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) chief scientists Jason L. Merrill and Lyster H. Dewey created a paper, USDA Bulletin No. 404 "Hemp Hurds as Paper-Making Material", in which they concluded that paper from the woody inner portion of the hemp stem broken into pieces, so called hemp hurds, was "favorable in comparison with those used with pulp wood". Dewey and Merrill believed that hemp hurds were a suitable source for paper production. However, later research does not confirm this. The concentration of cellulose in hemp hurds is only between 32% and 38% (not 77%, a number often repeated by Jack Herer and others on the Internet). Manufacture of paper with hemp as a raw material has shown that hemp lacks the qualities needed to become a major competitor to the traditional paper industry, which still uses wood or waste paper as raw material. In 2003, 95% of the hemp hurds in the EU were used for animal bedding, almost 5% were used as building material.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.thedailybeast.com/c...
Did you read the headline?
"Team America" Gets Post-Hack Yanking At Alamo Drafthouse, Too
And from your link:
Update: On Thursday, multiple theaters, including the Alamo Drafthouse in Dallas/Fort Worth, stated that screenings of Team America have been canceled.
I would guess not. (posted from a phone on a work break) I thought Texas was supposed to be a state that had balls. Guess not.
Sony hack: Obama considers 'proportional response' against North Korea
The White House calls the hacking of the Sony studio a "serious national security matter," while Hollywood stars compare cancellation of The Interview to Neville Chamberlain's'appeasement of Adolf Hitler and a second film called Pyongyang is also pulled.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
http://www.hollywoodreporter.c...
1. Mythbusters (and others) have already tested this in real life (not a computer program) and said they could have survived. 2. They could have survived, but they didn't survive. Unless they lived out the rest of their lives in isolation; we would have heard something from them.
No bodies were ever found, which is evidence of them making it to land. Life on Alcatraz is something you'd avoid going back to at all costs, including learning to live a low key, law abiding life.
What reason could North Korea possible have to deny hacking Sony if they did it?
To keep the Sony bombs away?
It could've been the NSA, we don't know for sure.
+1 Funny, if it weren't so true. ;^}
http://www.hollywoodreporter.c...
Your post references many good points that the public at large was not aware of before. The people behind the revelations, the hackers, may always be anonymous. I do not pretend to have all the answers. My point related to what I would do morally if I had access to data that didn't belong to me. However, the question seems to be : If I was given personal/company data that showed a serious crime was comitted, am I responsible to report the alledged crime?
Disregard, I meant to reply to the post below. :^/ Sigh, /. needs a 5 minute edit button.
Nothing too earth shattering, so far. What has been leaked so far shows that some Sony employees have derogatory feelings towards people of other races, and that Angelina Jolie acts like a spoiled brat. Stay tuned though, I'm sure there's more to come (munches popcorn)....
Nothing too earth shattering, so far. What has been leaked so far shows that some Sony employees have derogatory feelings towards people of other races, and that Angelina Jolie acts like a spoiled brat. Stay tuned though, I'm sure there's more to come (munches popcorn)....