Thank you very much for the information! Where in Scotland are you, approximately? One of my harem girls wants to stay in Aviemore, which as I recall is not too horribly far from Inverness. We want to stay in the country, in B&B's as much as possible. Why visit a country and ignore all of the wonderful interactions with its citizens?
I like your suggestion re: Ullapool and looping around to the west toward Gairloch. We've got 2 weeks, so we can explore a fair bit of the country.
I want to see the Falkirk wheel, my wife wants to see the highlands and the valley of Tweed (opposite ends, I know), and Carol the harem girl wants to see and drink it all!
My wife and I 'own' a square foot each way the heck up in Camster - is it worth heading that way to see the cairns?
Thanks a bunch for the info - I'm sure we'll have a very good time and meet tons of nice folk.
Thank you very much! We are very much into seeing true Scotland, not the same touristy junk you see everywhere. We want to learn about the people and culture, so as a start in that direction we're only staying in B&Bs except for the night of our arrival.
My wife wants to see the valley of Tweed and the highlands (naturally at opposite end of the country!). We have one of those 'own a square foot of Scotland' things thru a nature conservancy - for laughs we'd like to see what shopping mall its under. (Actually it's up in Camster, near the cairns.) My other harem girl wants to stay in Aviemore and make day trips to see the highlands - is that a good choice?
Thanks again for your comments; we would love to spend months there, but we've only been allotted 2 weeks this time around.
You will not find it in any modern consumer products.
There are consumer devices with BeO in them - I have seen several amateur radio amplifiers with "Danger Beryllium" stickers on them, particularly those with 8873 tubes. According to this article, "Beryllium is also used in consumer products, such as televisions, calculators, and personal computers, and in the coating on the inside of fluorescent lights." You can get a BeO metallized Peltier cooler here.
I'm not saying these products are dangerous, just that there are consumer devices with BeO in them today.
I needed dry ice for a demo at work and in searching around I found out that the Kroger grocery store chain (at least in the Richmond, Va area) sells dry ice! They have a super-insulated freezer at the front of the store, and sell it by the pound.
This probe acts as a tiny mast for the electric field so that there is a powerful electrical field at the tip of the probe.
IANANP, but why bother putting electrical energy into a heater to warm a crystal that generates (gasp) electrical energy? Wouldn't it make more sense to create the high electrical field with conventional voltage multipliers instead of messing about with electricity -> heat -> crystal voodoo -> electricity?
You said the magic word, inside. The fuselage of your typical aircraft looks a whole lot like a waveguide to cell phone freqs - it channels the cell phone RF into the cockpit and the toilets in the rear. It also acts to shield the internals of the aircraft from external RF fields (that the components and plane were tested for).
Tiller's rule violation: 10 yard penalty, first down!
Perhaps you meant monocoque. Merriam-Webster says, "a type of construction (as of a fuselage) in which the outer skin carries all or a major part of the stresses."
Monocot is an abbreviation for monocotyledon, a type of plant with a single cotyledon (seed leaf).
...for a microcontroller. Seriously, get a Microchip PIC, wire up the ATA connector, and write some simple C code to handle reading the disk geometry and then blasting the data (over and over and over)...
The hardware costs could be as little as $10 or so per device, and it would be not much larger than the ATA connector!
Thanks for the details. Maybe it's not strange, merely counter-intuitive. You wouldn't think that just being in a hole would change an exponent! I guess it's easy to ignore all that earth above you.
If memory serves me right, if you rely on gravity alone, any trip between any two points will take the exact same amount of time as would a trip directly thru the center of the earth. 84 minutes rings a bell, but that's been 20 years ago.
Inside the earth, the pull of gravity isn't proportional to r^2, I think it's linear wrt r. Strange.
You'd have to come up with a brilliant hierarchy to vote "I want more money for healthcare", then after the distribution between that and defense/roads/whatnot has been settled, those who want vote within that sector "I want more money for cancer research" and so on.
That's easy to fix, IMHO. There are two ways:
Let each taxpayer decide what percentage of their tax money is to be spent on each line item. Have one of those fill-in-the-bubble forms as the last page of your tax return. I'd give lots more to science and less to social programs.
Require the government to budget spending in terms of percentages - start with 100% of whatever will come in next year. 25%, say, goes to Social Security, etc. When the taxes are collected, the money is divided up according to the percentages, NOT dollar figures. No ifs, ands, or buts.
I also would support a Constitutional cap on the total allowable taxation percentage from all sources. With gasoline, property, real estate, local, state, federal, FICA, FUTA, etc taxes, I will soon owe the gov't 110% of my wages!
You do have a right to free expression. The constitution doesn't grant rights. It limits government powers.
I understand that concept fully. The only power of the government in this context that is limited is the restriction of "Speech". The government can therefore limit other forms of expression as it sees fit. (Public nudity, etc). According to google, there are 2,010,000 hits for "freedom of expression" and 2,410,000 hits for "freedom of speech". Clearly it is a oft-repeated tag line.
Again I ask, when did the 1st amendment begin to be applied to forms of expression other than speech?
Slashdot Mirror
Thank you very much for the information! Where in Scotland are you, approximately? One of my harem girls wants to stay in Aviemore, which as I recall is not too horribly far from Inverness. We want to stay in the country, in B&B's as much as possible. Why visit a country and ignore all of the wonderful interactions with its citizens?
I like your suggestion re: Ullapool and looping around to the west toward Gairloch. We've got 2 weeks, so we can explore a fair bit of the country.
I want to see the Falkirk wheel, my wife wants to see the highlands and the valley of Tweed (opposite ends, I know), and Carol the harem girl wants to see and drink it all!
My wife and I 'own' a square foot each way the heck up in Camster - is it worth heading that way to see the cairns?
Thanks a bunch for the info - I'm sure we'll have a very good time and meet tons of nice folk.
Couldn't they use jet engines like everyone else?
Thank you very much! We are very much into seeing true Scotland, not the same touristy junk you see everywhere. We want to learn about the people and culture, so as a start in that direction we're only staying in B&Bs except for the night of our arrival.
My wife wants to see the valley of Tweed and the highlands (naturally at opposite end of the country!). We have one of those 'own a square foot of Scotland' things thru a nature conservancy - for laughs we'd like to see what shopping mall its under. (Actually it's up in Camster, near the cairns.) My other harem girl wants to stay in Aviemore and make day trips to see the highlands - is that a good choice?
Thanks again for your comments; we would love to spend months there, but we've only been allotted 2 weeks this time around.
You will not find it in any modern consumer products.
There are consumer devices with BeO in them - I have seen several amateur radio amplifiers with "Danger Beryllium" stickers on them, particularly those with 8873 tubes. According to this article, "Beryllium is also used in consumer products, such as televisions, calculators, and personal computers, and in the coating on the inside of fluorescent lights." You can get a BeO metallized Peltier cooler here.
I'm not saying these products are dangerous, just that there are consumer devices with BeO in them today.
It's more like "Teenager Dangerous with Screwdriver".
They need a fourth one called "The Hacker" with an ending tagline of "Be The Difference" with a button for "Donate Money or Coding Skills [Here]".
Hah! I hadn't read my sig like that. It does sound like one of those trick logic questions, doesn't it?
So far I've got the The Falkirk Wheel, in addition to the usual Scotch Distillery tours for my two Scotchophile harem girl companions.
A bulk-buy on eBay. Charge shipping + $1.00. Sort by cable type.
Windows Longorn will get additional ROSD
What is Red of Screen Death, blood?
I needed dry ice for a demo at work and in searching around I found out that the Kroger grocery store chain (at least in the Richmond, Va area) sells dry ice! They have a super-insulated freezer at the front of the store, and sell it by the pound.
It's gonna get pissed and come back as Op'nity, I swear it.
This probe acts as a tiny mast for the electric field so that there is a powerful electrical field at the tip of the probe.
IANANP, but why bother putting electrical energy into a heater to warm a crystal that generates (gasp) electrical energy? Wouldn't it make more sense to create the high electrical field with conventional voltage multipliers instead of messing about with electricity -> heat -> crystal voodoo -> electricity?
What I'd like to know is if weather.com is going to start posting forecasts for other planetary bodies anytime soon.
Maybe not weather.com, but spaceweather.com already does (for the sun, at least).
You said the magic word, inside. The fuselage of your typical aircraft looks a whole lot like a waveguide to cell phone freqs - it channels the cell phone RF into the cockpit and the toilets in the rear. It also acts to shield the internals of the aircraft from external RF fields (that the components and plane were tested for).
Tiller's rule violation: 10 yard penalty, first down!
Perhaps you meant monocoque. Merriam-Webster says, "a type of construction (as of a fuselage) in which the outer skin carries all or a major part of the stresses."
Monocot is an abbreviation for monocotyledon, a type of plant with a single cotyledon (seed leaf).
...for a microcontroller. Seriously, get a Microchip PIC, wire up the ATA connector, and write some simple C code to handle reading the disk geometry and then blasting the data (over and over and over)...
The hardware costs could be as little as $10 or so per device, and it would be not much larger than the ATA connector!
Thanks for the details. Maybe it's not strange, merely counter-intuitive. You wouldn't think that just being in a hole would change an exponent! I guess it's easy to ignore all that earth above you.
If memory serves me right, if you rely on gravity alone, any trip between any two points will take the exact same amount of time as would a trip directly thru the center of the earth. 84 minutes rings a bell, but that's been 20 years ago.
Inside the earth, the pull of gravity isn't proportional to r^2, I think it's linear wrt r. Strange.
You'd have to come up with a brilliant hierarchy to vote "I want more money for healthcare", then after the distribution between that and defense/roads/whatnot has been settled, those who want vote within that sector "I want more money for cancer research" and so on.
That's easy to fix, IMHO. There are two ways:
- Let each taxpayer decide what percentage of their tax money is to be spent on each line item. Have one of those fill-in-the-bubble forms as the last page of your tax return. I'd give lots more to science and less to social programs.
- Require the government to budget spending in terms of percentages - start with 100% of whatever will come in next year. 25%, say, goes to Social Security, etc. When the taxes are collected, the money is divided up according to the percentages, NOT dollar figures. No ifs, ands, or buts.
I also would support a Constitutional cap on the total allowable taxation percentage from all sources. With gasoline, property, real estate, local, state, federal, FICA, FUTA, etc taxes, I will soon owe the gov't 110% of my wages!It didn't know the frequency whether I called it Kenneth or not, but it did know about the REM song.
Or Chemists
Chipping also allows opens the door to identity theft.
The reverse is true for English speakers as well. There are plenty of English words that sound nothing like their spelling would indicate.
You do have a right to free expression. The constitution doesn't grant rights. It limits government powers.
I understand that concept fully. The only power of the government in this context that is limited is the restriction of "Speech". The government can therefore limit other forms of expression as it sees fit. (Public nudity, etc). According to google, there are 2,010,000 hits for "freedom of expression" and 2,410,000 hits for "freedom of speech". Clearly it is a oft-repeated tag line.
Again I ask, when did the 1st amendment begin to be applied to forms of expression other than speech?
It appears that the US Supreme Court now calls it "Freedom of Expression". The earliest citation I could find was from a 1921 Supreme Court case.
Any insightful comments on how the expression and concept of "freedom of expression" crept into our legal lexicon?
One thing that is wrong with black holes vis a vie quantum mechanics...
Such a silly mistake from a Real Scientist(tm). Vis-a-vis, perhaps?
Tiller's Rule: NEVER use a word that you've only heard and never read. You WILL look like a fool.