The big "Spill" - prehistoric tanker of this new substance tentatively named "oil" runs aground, killing everything.
The big "Krill" - mutated giant sea creatures crawl from the sea, killing everything.
The big "Dill" - giant pickle falls from the sky, killing everything.
The big "Grill" - Eddie Murphy and his uncle Gus start a massive fire using "2 millions gallons of gasoline and half a continent of wood", killing everything.
The big "Quill" - Giant porcupine goes on a rampage, killing everything.
The big "Still" - Ancient life discovers the pleasures of ethyl alcohol, killing everything.
The big "Thrill" - Michael Jackson... [deleted], killing everything.
The big "Drill" - While searching for the aforementioned "oil", Halliburton from Planet X accidently drills thru Earth, killing everything.
The big "Frill" - Too much influence from "Queer Eye for the straight Guynosaur" causes birth rates to plummet, killing everything.
The big "Phil" - A well-known talk-psychiatrist rolls over on a whole generation of dinosaur eggs while sunning himself, killing everything.
I've found that if you use phone_number@vzwpix.com you can attach jpegs up to about 30k. Oddly, if you send a.MID file with the "JPG" extension, you can detach and then rename it. There's now you get your ringtones!
So can I have all of those extra fractional gold atoms? No one will miss 0.8 atoms out of 3056. I'll deposit them into my Swiss bank account, a la "Office Space".
I agree that IF they can show that they can play well with others I'll welcome BPL. However they MUST prove their lack of interference in real-world conditions - old, cracked insulators, dried-out crossarms, loose mounting hardware, repair sleeves in place, etc. Just like cable TV is perfectly non-interfering as long as the cable is pristine and perfectly installed, BPL must be judged under the conditions the system will be in after years of wear and tear.
They also must somehow guarantee that if interference crops up that they can respond quickly to correct it. Part 15 says that the interfering Part 15 device must cease operation if interference occurs, but it doesn't say under what timetable the offender must act. IMHO that needs clarification.
I was a ham when cable was rolled out in my area, and sure enough, even with it being a brand-new installation, up popped an S9 carrier on 145.25.
Just to pick a nit, I'm sure the ARRL had a lot to say about CABLE TV (note I didn't say cable INTERNET) - it can leak like a sieve as the system ages, and can put nasty spurs from its video and audio carriers every 6 MHz from 54 MHz into the 900 MHz range (depending on system design). Conversely, whole neighborhoods can have certain CATV channels wiped out by otherwise legal ham, pager, or emergency transmitters.
As this chart shows, the frequencies used by CATV systems (the CATV column) uses the same freqs as many over the air services (over-air column). Where these overlap, there is the chance of interference in both directions. Have a crosshatch pattern on a channel between 18 and 22? Likely a pager service transmitter is leaking into the cable system. It starts to get dangerous for channels 14-16 and 98-99 - they're right over aircraft comm and nav freqs. If a bad leak happens on those channels, it could endanger lives.
By the way, the dark black boxes on this chart indicate the vast amounts of spectrum hams have been granted the use of. Not a lot, in the grand scheme of things.
So instead of one huge target you could in principle land on, you'd get a swarm of smaller but still deadly rocks that would rain devastation on Earth?
I've always wondered about this. If I have a chunk of rock 1 km in diameter hurtling toward the earth, wouldn't it be better to break it up into small chunks so it would be more likely to burn up in the atmosphere? Even though the mass is the same, the surface area presented to the atmosphere would be greatly increased, which would be much more efficient at ablating away mass and slowing down the incoming pieces (transferring energy to the atmosphere instead of into making a crater).
Where's the trade-off point between distributed death from all the smaller chunks and increased burnup in the atmosphere?
...the poster is British - "800 pounds of kit" brought up images of an ancient Burroughs computer with lots of flashing lights sitting next to the ATM...
I second the sleep study recommendation. I was waking up with panic attacks, and it was found that I was stopping breathing 86 times/hr. My O2 levels plummeted, and my CO2 levels soared. The panic reaction took over, and jerked me out of sleep. I now sleep with a CPAP (Constant Positive Airway Pressure) device with 11 cm/H2O (0.156 PSI) of overpressure. It helps immensely.
I agree with you re: gun control for the most part, although I agree more closely with the NRA's stance that laws that restrict guns and not criminals are most likely 'bad laws'.
I'm not sure how I stand on the need to obtain a permit to carry a concealed weapon - that sounds awfully close to 'infringed' to me. I guess that'd be ok if open carry were legal implicitly.
I'd love it if there were a way to prove my safe handling of a firearm anonymously - I'm not a big fan of federal registration, either.
It also irks me that state-issued concealed carry permits are not generally recognized out-of-state. Where's that rule that says states must recognize each others papers, issues, and affairs? Imagine the chaos if states didn't have reciprocity for driver's licenses.
As I thought I made abundantly clear, the value of the CD to the retailer is reduced, not necessarily the value to the customer.
My argument regarding the sticker blocking the artwork was not that the end consumer couldn't remove it, it was that the sticker made the CD artwork less attractive and therefore less likely to attract a browsing buyer.
I guarantee that if caught placing stickers on a store's merchandise the store could elect to press charges under several existing statutes - trespassing, solicitation, and defacing private property for starters.
I wish you hadn't chosen to stoop to name-calling and profanity - it makes you look childish and diminishes any valid points you might have had.
Then I guess you wouldn't mind me spray-painting a slogan on the side of your car, huh? I haven't destroyed anything, and you're going to throw the car away eventually anyhow, right?
vandalism: [The] willful or malicious destruction
or defacement of public or private property [Emphasis mine] defacement: to mar the external appearance of
The stickers constitute defacement, in my book. They diminish the value of the CD to the retailer - the message is repugnant, they're large, ugly, and cover the artwork, making customers less likely to purchase a CD (the whole point of their little vendetta).
Protest outside the store legally; start a direct-mailing campaign; skywrite for all I care, but don't break the law to make your point!
We all may agree with their stand on the RIAA, but I for one cannot support their position of 'retail-terrorist'. To add insult to injury, they 'borrow' a new camera from Wal-Mart to photograph their little escapade, fully intending to return it after they're done! Reprehensible.
The Eurion pattern also appears on the reverse of the newest US $20 bill. Have you ever wondered why the zeros of the little yellow "20"s are so round? They're the Eurion circles. There are a bunch of the Eurion patterns you can play connect-the-dots with right there.
Curse those pesky exponents! Of course the voltage formula does not give 1/2 the power formula. Sorry about that...5.6 MPa sounds much more reasonable.
Somebody check my math - the storm drain model claims an output of 195 dB referenced to 1 mPa @ 1m. If I did the math right, [using the power formula dB = 10*log(P1/Pref)] that comes out to 31.6 pPa (yes, 31.6 peta Pascals) @ 1m. That's about 313 billion atmospheres! Even using the more conservative 'voltage' formula [dB = 20*log(V1/Vref)] it still only comes out to half the above value. I would expect instant boiling at those amplitudes.
I can light a fluorescent tube with my 5W amateur radio handheld (144 MHz).
Another difference between the power lines and your cell phone is that the wavelength of the RF used by the cell phone is much more likely to interact with your body than 50/60Hz. A 2 meter tall human is approximately:
a fullwave at 150 MHz
a half wave at 75 MHz
a quarter wave at 37.5 MHz.
That same human would be a 20e-6 wave at 60 Hz.
At cell phone freqs, (850 MHz, 1900 MHz), parts of the body begin to exhibit resonances; 850 MHz = 35.3 cm, 1900 MHz = 15.8 cm. If you're curious, there are MPElimits (Maximum Permissible Exposure) that apply to RF sources regulated by the FCC. Amateur radio operators, cell tower operators, etc must abide by these safety rules. Oddly, the limits seem not to apply under 300 KHz.
You realize, of course, that there is significant pressure to eliminate the grounding system we currently have and replace it with all ground-fault breakers? This change would prevent the chassis of an appliance from becoming energized when there's a short on the circuit. It also protects against electrocution, naturally. It raises breaker cost but reduces wire cost, since you only need to run 2 conductors instead of three.
... on Polonium 210. Apparently it decays by energetic alpha particle emission (5.407 MeV) to Pb-206, which is stable. Compared to Plutonium 238 at 5.592 MeV (which NASA uses in its RTG's), they're essentially equal as far as energy goes. Pu-238 wins hands-down in the half life category - 87.7 Years vs 138.376 days.
Po-210 has one decay product, whereas Pu-238 has at least 8 steps in some of its decay chains.
Oddly, there is a decay chain starting at Pu-238 that leads to Po-210!
Slashdot Mirror
You'll see these suckers in tanks in French restaurants like seafood places have lobsters. Oo-la-la! Ze Seks leg'ed frog!
You forgot "naturally-occurring in convenient pre-diluted holistic quantities", "Mother Gaia-approved", and "Non-greenhouse gas emitting".
You forgot:
I've found that if you use phone_number@vzwpix.com you can attach jpegs up to about 30k. Oddly, if you send a
So can I have all of those extra fractional gold atoms? No one will miss 0.8 atoms out of 3056. I'll deposit them into my Swiss bank account, a la "Office Space".
I agree that IF they can show that they can play well with others I'll welcome BPL. However they MUST prove their lack of interference in real-world conditions - old, cracked insulators, dried-out crossarms, loose mounting hardware, repair sleeves in place, etc. Just like cable TV is perfectly non-interfering as long as the cable is pristine and perfectly installed, BPL must be judged under the conditions the system will be in after years of wear and tear.
They also must somehow guarantee that if interference crops up that they can respond quickly to correct it. Part 15 says that the interfering Part 15 device must cease operation if interference occurs, but it doesn't say under what timetable the offender must act. IMHO that needs clarification.
I was a ham when cable was rolled out in my area, and sure enough, even with it being a brand-new installation, up popped an S9 carrier on 145.25.
Just to pick a nit, I'm sure the ARRL had a lot to say about CABLE TV (note I didn't say cable INTERNET) - it can leak like a sieve as the system ages, and can put nasty spurs from its video and audio carriers every 6 MHz from 54 MHz into the 900 MHz range (depending on system design). Conversely, whole neighborhoods can have certain CATV channels wiped out by otherwise legal ham, pager, or emergency transmitters.
As this chart shows, the frequencies used by CATV systems (the CATV column) uses the same freqs as many over the air services (over-air column). Where these overlap, there is the chance of interference in both directions. Have a crosshatch pattern on a channel between 18 and 22? Likely a pager service transmitter is leaking into the cable system. It starts to get dangerous for channels 14-16 and 98-99 - they're right over aircraft comm and nav freqs. If a bad leak happens on those channels, it could endanger lives.
By the way, the dark black boxes on this chart indicate the vast amounts of spectrum hams have been granted the use of. Not a lot, in the grand scheme of things.
So instead of one huge target you could in principle land on, you'd get a swarm of smaller but still deadly rocks that would rain devastation on Earth?
I've always wondered about this. If I have a chunk of rock 1 km in diameter hurtling toward the earth, wouldn't it be better to break it up into small chunks so it would be more likely to burn up in the atmosphere? Even though the mass is the same, the surface area presented to the atmosphere would be greatly increased, which would be much more efficient at ablating away mass and slowing down the incoming pieces (transferring energy to the atmosphere instead of into making a crater).
Where's the trade-off point between distributed death from all the smaller chunks and increased burnup in the atmosphere?
...the poster is British - "800 pounds of kit" brought up images of an ancient Burroughs computer with lots of flashing lights sitting next to the ATM...
I second the sleep study recommendation. I was waking up with panic attacks, and it was found that I was stopping breathing 86 times/hr. My O2 levels plummeted, and my CO2 levels soared. The panic reaction took over, and jerked me out of sleep. I now sleep with a CPAP (Constant Positive Airway Pressure) device with 11 cm/H2O (0.156 PSI) of overpressure. It helps immensely.
I agree with you re: gun control for the most part, although I agree more closely with the NRA's stance that laws that restrict guns and not criminals are most likely 'bad laws'.
I'm not sure how I stand on the need to obtain a permit to carry a concealed weapon - that sounds awfully close to 'infringed' to me. I guess that'd be ok if open carry were legal implicitly.
I'd love it if there were a way to prove my safe handling of a firearm anonymously - I'm not a big fan of federal registration, either.
It also irks me that state-issued concealed carry permits are not generally recognized out-of-state. Where's that rule that says states must recognize each others papers, issues, and affairs? Imagine the chaos if states didn't have reciprocity for driver's licenses.
Anyway, keep shooting, keep safe!
As I thought I made abundantly clear, the value of the CD to the retailer is reduced, not necessarily the value to the customer.
My argument regarding the sticker blocking the artwork was not that the end consumer couldn't remove it, it was that the sticker made the CD artwork less attractive and therefore less likely to attract a browsing buyer.
I guarantee that if caught placing stickers on a store's merchandise the store could elect to press charges under several existing statutes - trespassing, solicitation, and defacing private property for starters.
I wish you hadn't chosen to stoop to name-calling and profanity - it makes you look childish and diminishes any valid points you might have had.
With your sig, I'd expect that you and Australia wouldn't see eye-to-eye on private firearm ownership.
For the record, I agree wholeheartedly with your sig.
Then I guess you wouldn't mind me spray-painting a slogan on the side of your car, huh? I haven't destroyed anything, and you're going to throw the car away eventually anyhow, right?
From Merriam-Webster:
The stickers constitute defacement, in my book. They diminish the value of the CD to the retailer - the message is repugnant, they're large, ugly, and cover the artwork, making customers less likely to purchase a CD (the whole point of their little vendetta).Protest outside the store legally; start a direct-mailing campaign; skywrite for all I care, but don't break the law to make your point!
Did anyone else notice that the parent site of TuneRecycler.com seems to advocate vandalism of merchandise in retail stores?
We all may agree with their stand on the RIAA, but I for one cannot support their position of 'retail-terrorist'. To add insult to injury, they 'borrow' a new camera from Wal-Mart to photograph their little escapade, fully intending to return it after they're done! Reprehensible.
The Eurion pattern also appears on the reverse of the newest US $20 bill. Have you ever wondered why the zeros of the little yellow "20"s are so round? They're the Eurion circles. There are a bunch of the Eurion patterns you can play connect-the-dots with right there.
Curse those pesky exponents! Of course the voltage formula does not give 1/2 the power formula. Sorry about that...5.6 MPa sounds much more reasonable.
Hubble Snaps Farthest / Oldest Galaxy
I guess NASA is going to have to send a probe to glue that galaxy back together now, huh?
Somebody check my math - the storm drain model claims an output of 195 dB referenced to 1 mPa @ 1m. If I did the math right, [using the power formula dB = 10*log(P1/Pref)] that comes out to 31.6 pPa (yes, 31.6 peta Pascals) @ 1m. That's about 313 billion atmospheres! Even using the more conservative 'voltage' formula [dB = 20*log(V1/Vref)] it still only comes out to half the above value. I would expect instant boiling at those amplitudes.
I can light a fluorescent tube with my 5W amateur radio handheld (144 MHz).
Another difference between the power lines and your cell phone is that the wavelength of the RF used by the cell phone is much more likely to interact with your body than 50/60Hz. A 2 meter tall human is approximately:
- a fullwave at 150 MHz
- a half wave at 75 MHz
- a quarter wave at 37.5 MHz.
That same human would be a 20e-6 wave at 60 Hz.At cell phone freqs, (850 MHz, 1900 MHz), parts of the body begin to exhibit resonances; 850 MHz = 35.3 cm, 1900 MHz = 15.8 cm. If you're curious, there are MPE limits (Maximum Permissible Exposure) that apply to RF sources regulated by the FCC. Amateur radio operators, cell tower operators, etc must abide by these safety rules. Oddly, the limits seem not to apply under 300 KHz.
You realize, of course, that there is significant pressure to eliminate the grounding system we currently have and replace it with all ground-fault breakers? This change would prevent the chassis of an appliance from becoming energized when there's a short on the circuit. It also protects against electrocution, naturally. It raises breaker cost but reduces wire cost, since you only need to run 2 conductors instead of three.
Hot button alert! It's per se. It means in, of, or by itself; intrinsically.
Never use a word you've only heard and never read.
I wonder how they managed to get them to hold up (and be potentially useful) for that long? sheer dumb luck?
No, serious [over]engineering. Those suckers were huge and weighed nearly two tons!
Today we're pursuing rouge WMDs, tomorrow it'll be mascara WMDs, then lipstick WMDs by next week. When will this war on cosmetics end?
... on Polonium 210. Apparently it decays by energetic alpha particle emission (5.407 MeV) to Pb-206, which is stable. Compared to Plutonium 238 at 5.592 MeV (which NASA uses in its RTG's), they're essentially equal as far as energy goes. Pu-238 wins hands-down in the half life category - 87.7 Years vs 138.376 days.
Po-210 has one decay product, whereas Pu-238 has at least 8 steps in some of its decay chains.
Oddly, there is a decay chain starting at Pu-238 that leads to Po-210!