Hopefully some pretty lightweight Faraday Cages for hard drives given the huge EMP field assaulting the microscopic magnetic charge states on the hard drive platters.
Here... let me get my degausser and run it over my hard drives a few times and I'll enjoy the side effects of a Tesla Coil powered PC. Oh wait, that would be WRONG.
He's kicking more ass than the average euroPEON leader. For such an "idiot", GW Bush beats his opponents 100% of the time leaving them bitching and moaning like a 5 year old kicked in the nuts.
President Bush: Well, I think the leaders appreciate somebody who is straightforward and open. I guess I could have gone with a strategy of playing like this makes sense. But I chose to be as open as I could and explain in terms that we share the same goal, that we will come with a strategy that makes sense, but that the treaty wasn't going to pass.
And there was no need for me to play like it was going to pass, particularly since the United States Senate had delivered a pretty clear message on a 95-to-nothing vote about our nation adhering to 1990 CO2 emission levels and reducing from there. That would be an economic impossibility for us to do.
We're spending a lot of money and time and effort on looking at interesting technologies - conservation technologies - and we look forward to sharing that with the rest of the world, as we all aim to reduce greenhouse gases.
GWEN IFILL: After barely more than 60 days in office, President Bush has placed a distinctive mark on U.S. environmental policy, rolling back campaign promises on clean air, reversing Clinton administration initiatives on drinking water, and promoting new oil exploration in previously protected regions. And now the White House is taking steps to have the U.S. withdraw its support for a landmark 1997 global warming agreement signed in Kyoto, Japan. Environmental Protection Administrator Christie Todd Whitman told reporters the president had "no interest in implementing it." White House spokesman Ari Fleischer was even more blunt.
ARI FLEISCHER: The president has been unequivocal: He does not support the Kyoto treaty. It exempts the developing nations around the world and it is not in the United States' economic best interest. The president has directed his cabinet secretaries to begin a review so we can, as a nation, address a serious problem, which is global warming.
[ later in the article ]
PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: We are now in an energy crisis. And that's why I decided to not have mandatory caps on CO2, because in order to meet those caps, our nation would have had to have had a lot of natural gas immediately flow into the system, which is impossible. We don't have the infrastructure able to move natural gas. We need to have an active exploration program. One of the big debates that's taking place in the Congress, or will take place in the Congress is whether or not we should be exploring for natural gas in Alaska -- for example, in ANWR. I strongly think we should. We have an energy shortage. I look forward to explaining this today to the leader of Germany as to why I made the decision I made. We'll be working with Germany. We'll be working with our allies to reduce greenhouse gases, but I will not accept a plan that will harm our economy and hurt American workers.
But of course this is just fine when Tony Blair and Criminal Traitor Lifetime-Cocaine-Addict Pathological-Liar George Worthless Bush share the same toothpaste.
They aren't the science fiction channel, they are the SciFi channel which is a much broader, and shallower genre. Unfortunately it includes pablum like "The Dead Zone" which really belongs on the Women's Channel because the plots are so touchy-feely it is ridiculous, not to mention the bogosity of John Edwards and his feel-good show.
Hello, I'm imitating John Edwards and I am happy to tell you that all of your loved ones are "Fine" they are always "Fine" yep... fine fine fine fine. (Coughs) Oh wait, I meant to say it as the French do - "Fin'e".
Oh by the way, along with my utterly useless answers I will just ooze smarmy fake compassion then laugh all the way to the bank.
...he warns that this security measure could be defeated by anyone who can get hold of a pair of correctly configured, light polarising glasses.
The other option is to scramble a monochrome screen with a red or green or blue filter.
If the filter is red then all red, white, yellow, tan, etc... pixels will be white and all other shades will be pushed to black. The classic trick is to scramble the colorspace of the pixels randomly so other viewers see multicolored static unless they have one of the color filters.
Now another option is to sync the static with special glasses, but if you have that then why muck with the monitor signal? Now one other option is to create a multi-polarized (simplest tech is to take two polarized sheets, go scissor-happy and glue to a clear plastic sheet in the many random orientations that would occur) pair of glasses. Then sync the polarization to the unique glasses, but the viewer has to maintain an exact close distance & have very little head movement.
Another variation of the concept is to do the same thing with the pure color filters and cut & glue the pieces into a stained-glass unique viewer which matches the color-space scrambling of the monitor. Again the same limitations of viewing distance & head motion come into play. However, the glasses will look a damn spot more stylish.
Yes, you too can hawk your crap on Slashdot. For only no money down your wares can be placed before the eyes of millions of people. Don't have a worthwhile product to offer? Then just shill your crap on Slashdot.
Hardly missed it. I live in Baltimore, some 80 miles downstream. Strangely enough, despite all the press, neither streams of refugees nor hordes of mutants ever materialized. In fact, not a hell of a lot really happened, except that the safety systems ended up working and the containment building contained the problem, inelegantly but effectively. Peach Bottom keeps running, and so does Calvert Cliffs, and I don't have X-ray vision or super strength or anything.
Leukemia and Cancer certainly don't count as superpowers. Here, let me hand you a vial of sulfuric acid and tell you that if you spill it on your crotch you'll become be able to fly and glow in the dark and blow up things with your mind at will. Oh wait, none of that will happen? Then feel happy that only your genitals are scarred for life because my overselling of the potential dangers of pouring sulfuric acid on your crotch must have satisfied your easily pleased brain. Hey, at least you're not big muscular and green saying, "Hulk Smash".
Yep, it sure is better to over-exaggerate the results of radioactive waste exposure in comic book terms rather than consider the real effects and dangers of nuclear power.
Theres nothing stopping them from putting some kind of scent into the hydrogen so you can tell when its leaking. Propane is also an odorless gas if i remember correctly. It smells like rotten eggs when its leaking because they add that scent to the gas so you can identify by scent when its leaking
Um, you do know that in a laptop battery (or a CD / MP3) player something that small couldn't leak out too much smelly gas too quickly. The response to a leak would be "Alright! Who farted?" or "Hey! Who crapped their pants?" and then the problem would remain ignored as someone says, "Hey buddy, light a match!"
You've got to remember that we are dealing with average human beings here.
other way around. The outer plate is grounded. What the tank/apc crews would touch on the inside would also be grounded. There is a layer of insulation between all three.
Oh goodness, I've got a better method to destroy the tank on the cheap!
A thermite net or rope.
Once the net hits the tank it ignites from the electrical field once a regular grenade goes pop. The thermite burns the tank into itty bitty chunks in no time flat.
Wow, taking down over-priced defense contracts is fun.
You have to do more than pierce the outer plate. Basically, the outer plate is charged, and the inner surface is grounded. The cap only discharges when something bridges the plates. 'course, if something doesn't bridge the plates, then it didn't penetrate and you're safe anyway.
Tank crews tend to retain their hearing after being in a tank that's impacted by enemy fire; an APC crew shouldn't have a significantly worse experience, assuming they're not dead or otherwise shredded by spalling.
So what would I do to defeat this armor? Add in phosphorus or magnesium or perhaps toss in a liquid copper particle suspension + glass powder mix. The other option would be a carbon rod spread which would make a nice arc lamp. Another nice choice would be mix in a liquid which turns into a very poisonous gas upon high heat vaporization. Hell, even tossing in gasoline into the grenade pods would make a rather interesting reaction.
The porn business really took off around 30 - 40 years ago after several court decisions made most porn legal (in the US.) With the advent of the VCR, porn exploded. It has NOT "always been so."
And YOU must be pretty young yourself.
Porn was pretty big before the 1940's (when the film ratings boards came into existence). Hell, do you think the Nickelodeons were exclusively devoted to cartoons Charlie Chaplin flicks? A big business at that time was stereogram (the cross-your-eyes 3D) porn (which makes me ponder the distinct lack of 3D porn magazines today. And I'm not talking POSER porn exclusively). Just because you don't know how to search for "silent movie" porn and "vintage" porn then do not claim to have all knowledge on something which anyone over 65 (and plenty of folks like me that are under 65) knows about.
Among other things contained within, there was a DVD - and let me tell you that it was the best 21 bucks I have ever spent. What could this DVD possibly contain that would make me - a known cheapskate - spend 21+ bucks? Well folks, let me tell you: It was vintage erotica from 1930's France. Would you like me to repeat that? Okay... It was vintage erotica from 1930's France - aka PORN.
According to one of the reviews of this DVD on Amazon:
"A joyous celebration of unimpeded, unhindered sex. This DVD consists of 24 short silent B&W films from 20's and 30's France featuring various singles, couples, and groups in -- well, almost every possible combination, actually. Sure, they're just ordinary people, with the lumps, cellulite, and excess hair that ordinary people have; as such, I found it a pleasant antidote to the ridiculous excesses of modern porn. It also gives some explanation for the French reputation as lovers: every straight coupling starts with getting the woman off. Now that's what I call feminist!
Be warned; it's very explicit and includes lesbian, gay, straight, and group situations, as well as quite a number of cum shots. (Not that there's anything wrong with that...)"
So what do you think of that? Personally, as an expert on erotica (READ: Porn) I found the actual content of the disk quite interesting. It shows how little sex (or at least porn) has changed over the years. Much of the content is quite explicit and only suffers from the underdeveloped film and camera technology of the time. In fact, I think that this porn is BETTER than most of the crap being produced today. I mean... this stuff turned me while most porn just makes me laugh my ass off. Now only if the shaved way back then, it would be even more enjoyable.
Your comments just gave me an idea for an Internet moneymaker: e-lotto. Imagine being able to get Your Chance at BIG BUCKS!!! without having to leave the comfort of your house/trailer/projects. This would be like current Internet gambling, only with a state agency guaranteeing that the game isn't rigged and that your credit card info won't be stolen by some Bad People hosting their site from the Cayman Islands or somewhere.
We are talking about atomic clocks here, mate. They measure the vibrations of single atoms, which is the closest we can come to true measurement of time. In fact, our units of time are defined as certain amounts of such vibrations. The guys who constructed the clocks were also fully aware of all particles that could possibly *affect* the mechanism (not taking into account the force-carrying particles of quantum physics, whose existence are not exactly confirmed I believe (IANAPhysicist tho)), and took that into account.
Ah, so if we were to take an atomic clock and mount it on a turntable which then begins to spin at 36000 RPM then the clocks must obviously slow down because of Relativity Effects rather than the divergence of the atomic vibrations along the rotational path. Sure. I wonder what would happen if we place the atomic clocks on a rapidly vibrating platform? Wouldn't a macro version of thermal vibration also throw the clocks off on proper timekeeping?
Simply put, I don't buy the argument of Relativity Effects on atomic clocks when the same experiment effect can be duplicated by simple Newton physics which say "a body in motion will in motion unless acted upon by an outside force" and that force is indeed the kinetic / potential energy of basic motion.
And for your favor I won't bring up the effect of neutrino collisions & cosmic rays when the plane went higher into the atmosphere and duplicated the "running in a light rain collides you with more raindrops than would fall on your head" effect.
I'm gonna write a script that will post "the horse is dead, please stop beating it" each time the slashdot story contains the word "again" in the title. Easy mod points.
My penis is sore... keep beating it.
(Had to be said. No really, it DID have to be said.)
Especially a battery operated, portable Death Ray!
I just picked up a 3 Watt laser diode at a Hamfest recently. It's whats at the core of the med-pack and portable med-pens displayed. This thing is really fucking cool. It will make paper and wire insulation, plastic, etc. burst into flame from about 1/4 inch away.
The diode is made by Spectra Diode Labs (SDL) and channels 3 Watts of optical energy at 808 nanometers into a fiber optic. I have that clamped into a standard mechanical pencil to hold the fiber and allow it to be directed with some control.
The spot that appears is very scary because it appears weak red, about 5 mW of visible light energy is present but 98 % of the optical power is invisible in the infrared spectrum.
I haven't tried any home laser surgery yet, but it makes a dandy wire stripper or marking scribe. I also use it to open sealed ni-cad battery packs and change cells for walkie-talkies, etc.
Yep, Everyone should have a Death Ray!
Wouldn't it be cheaper to buy (or scavange) the laser diode from a CD Burner, tack on a power supply and burn away?
Wouldnt this mean that we could also make a large microwave, and use it as some sort of weapon (not really).
You don't need a "large" microwave for that. The magnetron in a typical microwave oven is more than enough to cook someone, or so I'm told. Since the magnetron emits a coherent microwave beam, you can aim it at someone's head for maximum effect.
I think FUTURAMA already demonstrated that when Leela went on a killing spree in the "What If..." episode "ANTHOLOGY OF INTEREST I" when she wanted to find out "what it would be like if I were more impulsive"?
Leela smashed a hole in the microwave oven door, turned it on and killed Bender.
I would assume there SHOULD be some safety circuits to prevent such a method for creating a portable killing machine (by using a huge battery backpack and a power inverter or just plugging it into the car's power outlet while driving). However, given the corners cut in corporate profit motives, I suspect there may be MICROWAVE TOTING MURDERERS walking the streets right now.
Seriously though, there wouldn't be too much effort to turn a Microwave oven into a DEATH TOY with a bit of physical hacking of the case, electronics, shielding, & coming up with a really portable power supply.
Instead, I go into Starbucks and overhear people ordering grande cappucinos. These people's hearts usually then burst out of their chests and tap-dance on the table, but I digress.
Point being, there seems to be an overall trend of everything in America getting bigger: Coke cups, coffee cups, McDonalds sandwiches, and, possibly not unrelatedly, people's butts.
Alright already! I get the hint. I'll stop abusing the Penis Enlarging pills.
I wouldn't get to used to this 'revolution' in internet advertising. Righ now 6 figure marketing execs are in thier respective war rooms trying to figure out more lucrative ways for advertising on the internet. It has been know for quite sometime that pop-ads and banner ads have a very low click-through rate. I just phear what they might come up with next to replace them...
Cocksucking advertisements. If you buy their product they send professional cocksuckers out to give you a blowjob.
Of course they'll have to jack up the price to pay for shipping and cocksucking, but I can see a market for most everything then.
I want to know what's faster, ludicrous speed or breakneck speed.
Ludicrous Speed involves cartoon animals. Breakneck Speed requires a neck to break.
Therefore, a cartoon animal will outrun a fish, but not if it's a cartoon fish. Given that you can safely assume that Ludicrous Speed easily is faster than Breakneck Speed (as Breaking The Neck of the Speeder should pretty much end the speeding). If you are a cartoon animal you cannot permanently break your neck so therefore you can exceed Breakneck Speeds.
That's going to take a while, what with the pesky laws of thermodynamics. We need Space Chickens to fulfill that rather lofty goal. In fact, if we increase the caloric intake of the entire world's population, the mass of the earth's bisphere would actually decrease due to heat losses and whatnot. Oh the woes of being an entropic lifeform.
(Not that Christians are all that keen on the laws of Thermodynamics, but I suppose you HINT HINT wanted this link posted.)
Adventures with Chickens developed by RockSolidSoftware is a whimsical Christian action/puzzle/adventure game for the Windows 95/DirectX platform. Your goal is to rescue purple Chickens from suffocating in the harsh confines of deep space. Along the way you get a healthy dose of scripture!
Features Edutainment - Learn the Bible as you play. Non-Violent Christian based gameplay for the whole family. High Resolution graphics and DirectX. Digital sound FX and music. Supports different difficulty levels and pieces to play with. 25 levels in Registered Version.
(On the upside the Space Chickens are flash frozen in the cold depths of space.)
But... if on the off chance that it really works and could be used in commercial projects and could bring billions (trillions?) in sales and licensing royalties...
Seems like a worthwhile risk to me. Exactly! Remember the alchemists of the 16-19th century kept on bonking their heads against the wall trying to find the Philosopher's Stone, and incidentally invented modern chemistry as a by-product. Nice little windfall, that!
It is to be hoped that some great science will be spun out of this (probably doomed) effort for anti-gravity.
And don't forget the Mad Scientist's Motto:It... just... might... work!
Agreed! Science (especially MAD SCIENCE) is RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT. Something has to be thought of, tried, and proven or disproven and then a slightly different approach taken if the results seemed promising. SCIENCE CANNOT PROGRESS WITHOUT A SCIENTIST - DOING SOMETHING The explaining how the something interesting happened comes later usually if the experiment isn't life endangering.
The second most important concept of science is PEER REVIEW. If nobody else can duplicate the experiment, then perhaps the initial assumption is faulty and needs to be rethought. Breakthrough science never got into existence without someone willing to try something crazy just to see if anything happens (again noting that experiments which have proven failed need not be repeated if the results are without conflict - ergo jumping out of high windows to attempt unaided flight even though all previous volunteer subjects have died outright).
That attack can work against users, too. If properly placed and timed, a NO CARRIER can be very convincing...
All those AOL-nitwits will always fall for obvious pranks.
My favorite is to go into an online RPG, make a character named "SYSTEM ERROR" or "PROGRAM VIOLATION" or "OUT OF MEMORY" or "ERROR 125" then go up to a bunch of newbies and EMOTE - "Please Shut Down Your Computer and Reboot".
Nothing as giggle inducing as seeing a bunch of idiots blink offline because they EXPECT AND ARE USED TO continual MICROSOFT CRAPWARE system bugs.
People are TOO DAMN GULLIBLE THESE DAYS. Not an ounce of critical independant thinking among the lot of them it seems.
Just think of all the Pr0N I'll have to pay royalties on!
And you thought you were going to get away without paying for your pr0n...
They'll get my porn when they pry it from my wet, sticky, warm hands. I might be more generous if they pull then push then pull and push some more though...
It isn't the rubbing that bothers me, it is the throbbing and the swelling.
Time travel "What If" type scenarios are silly. You have two problems, first, at that time in his life, he had not commited any of those crimes and you would be in effect killing an innocent man. Second, there is no way to insure by removing him things wouldn't be worse, another, dictator could rise up, put Germany on the H-Bomb fast track and use it first against Russia, winning the war. Perhaps because some economic plan was never implemented, Germany and possibly Europe could have remained in a depression for much longer, causing millions to die of starvation and or disease. Or WWII may happened anyway, changing virtually nothing.
Okay, what if we go back in time, gouge out both of Hitler's eyes, ruin his voice, crush both of his hands, chop off both of his legs and then tattoo "I love sucking off dogs" (in German) on every square inch of his flesh, oh and chop off his balls so he could never reproduce?
He'd still be ALIVE. Just not the poster child of Nazi-cult. Works for me.
Microsoft penis enlargement: The purple scream of death.
Nah, they'd just send some pills that would shrink the penis until it's a nubby dot, but they would send you progressively smaller scaled down rulers to make it appear everything about your penis got bigger (ergo - The first week the ruler measures 1"=1", second week 1" on their ruler would equal 1/2" on a normal ruler. The third week 1 normal inch = 1/4" on a normal ruler). That way they could appear to be showing extreme growth, but all they are doing is shrinking their rulers drastically compared to a regular ruler.
And of course they'd include a cream as their Free Genital Security Upgrade that would give you genital lice so they could sell you completely ineffective "cures" which end up coloring the lice a different shade or make the lice smell better, but never actually kill the bugs. You'd need a third-party solution that would make the bugs only bother you during the night. And then the Microsoft Penis Enlarger Corp would outlaw "Linux-Rit" which effectively kills the lice, but gives a small percentage of the population allergic reactions. That of course would give Microsoft Penis Enlarger Corp the basis for another lawsuit.
This story was ran a few week back, and was proved a dupe back then because of their is no such thing as a kelvar enforced cd.
When you get some READING COMPREHENSION SKILLS, get back to us.
They wrapped some KEVLAR WIRE around the CD to reinforce it. They could have easily made it COPPER REINFORCED by wrapping copper wire around the CD too. Goodness sakes, I hate WILLFULLY STUPID PEOPLE.
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Next Up - Tesla Powered Laptops!
What will they think of next!?
Hopefully some pretty lightweight Faraday Cages for hard drives given the huge EMP field assaulting the microscopic magnetic charge states on the hard drive platters.
Here... let me get my degausser and run it over my hard drives a few times and I'll enjoy the side effects of a Tesla Coil powered PC. Oh wait, that would be WRONG.
He's kicking more ass than the average euroPEON leader. For such an "idiot", GW Bush beats his opponents 100% of the time leaving them bitching and moaning like a 5 year old kicked in the nuts.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1446863
Friday, 20 July, 2001, 06:51 GMT 07:51 UK
Bush's BBC interview in full
President Bush:
Well, I think the leaders appreciate somebody who is straightforward and open. I guess I could have gone with a strategy of playing like this makes sense. But I chose to be as open as I could and explain in terms that we share the same goal, that we will come with a strategy that makes sense, but that the treaty wasn't going to pass.
And there was no need for me to play like it was going to pass, particularly since the United States Senate had delivered a pretty clear message on a 95-to-nothing vote about our nation adhering to 1990 CO2 emission levels and reducing from there. That would be an economic impossibility for us to do.
We're spending a lot of money and time and effort on looking at interesting technologies - conservation technologies - and we look forward to sharing that with the rest of the world, as we all aim to reduce greenhouse gases.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/environment/jan-ju
BUSH AND THE ENVIRONMENT
March 29, 2001
GWEN IFILL: After barely more than 60 days in office, President Bush has placed a distinctive mark on U.S. environmental policy, rolling back campaign promises on clean air, reversing Clinton administration initiatives on drinking water, and promoting new oil exploration in previously protected regions. And now the White House is taking steps to have the U.S. withdraw its support for a landmark 1997 global warming agreement signed in Kyoto, Japan. Environmental Protection Administrator Christie Todd Whitman told reporters the president had "no interest in implementing it." White House spokesman Ari Fleischer was even more blunt.
ARI FLEISCHER: The president has been unequivocal: He does not support the Kyoto treaty. It exempts the developing nations around the world and it is not in the United States' economic best interest. The president has directed his cabinet secretaries to begin a review so we can, as a nation, address a serious problem, which is global warming.
[ later in the article ]
PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: We are now in an energy crisis. And that's why I decided to not have mandatory caps on CO2, because in order to meet those caps, our nation would have had to have had a lot of natural gas immediately flow into the system, which is impossible. We don't have the infrastructure able to move natural gas. We need to have an active exploration program. One of the big debates that's taking place in the Congress, or will take place in the Congress is whether or not we should be exploring for natural gas in Alaska -- for example, in ANWR. I strongly think we should. We have an energy shortage. I look forward to explaining this today to the leader of Germany as to why I made the decision I made. We'll be working with Germany. We'll be working with our allies to reduce greenhouse gases, but I will not accept a plan that will harm our economy and hurt American workers.
But of course this is just fine when Tony Blair and Criminal Traitor Lifetime-Cocaine-Addict Pathological-Liar George Worthless Bush share the same toothpaste.
They aren't the science fiction channel, they are the SciFi channel which is a much broader, and shallower genre. Unfortunately it includes pablum like "The Dead Zone" which really belongs on the Women's Channel because the plots are so touchy-feely it is ridiculous, not to mention the bogosity of John Edwards and his feel-good show.
Hello, I'm imitating John Edwards and I am happy to tell you that all of your loved ones are "Fine" they are always "Fine" yep... fine fine fine fine. (Coughs) Oh wait, I meant to say it as the French do - "Fin'e".
Oh by the way, along with my utterly useless answers I will just ooze smarmy fake compassion then laugh all the way to the bank.
...he warns that this security measure could be defeated by anyone who can get hold of a pair of correctly configured, light polarising glasses.
The other option is to scramble a monochrome screen with a red or green or blue filter.
If the filter is red then all red, white, yellow, tan, etc... pixels will be white and all other shades will be pushed to black. The classic trick is to scramble the colorspace of the pixels randomly so other viewers see multicolored static unless they have one of the color filters.
Now another option is to sync the static with special glasses, but if you have that then why muck with the monitor signal? Now one other option is to create a multi-polarized (simplest tech is to take two polarized sheets, go scissor-happy and glue to a clear plastic sheet in the many random orientations that would occur) pair of glasses. Then sync the polarization to the unique glasses, but the viewer has to maintain an exact close distance & have very little head movement.
Another variation of the concept is to do the same thing with the pure color filters and cut & glue the pieces into a stained-glass unique viewer which matches the color-space scrambling of the monitor. Again the same limitations of viewing distance & head motion come into play. However, the glasses will look a damn spot more stylish.
scarydidos
Yes, you too can hawk your crap on Slashdot. For only no money down your wares can be placed before the eyes of millions of people. Don't have a worthwhile product to offer? Then just shill your crap on Slashdot.
MODERATE THE PARENT POST AS "TROLL"!
Hardly missed it. I live in Baltimore, some 80 miles downstream. Strangely enough, despite all the press, neither streams of refugees nor hordes of mutants ever materialized. In fact, not a hell of a lot really happened, except that the safety systems ended up working and the containment building contained the problem, inelegantly but effectively. Peach Bottom keeps running, and so does Calvert Cliffs, and I don't have X-ray vision or super strength or anything.
Leukemia and Cancer certainly don't count as superpowers. Here, let me hand you a vial of sulfuric acid and tell you that if you spill it on your crotch you'll become be able to fly and glow in the dark and blow up things with your mind at will. Oh wait, none of that will happen? Then feel happy that only your genitals are scarred for life because my overselling of the potential dangers of pouring sulfuric acid on your crotch must have satisfied your easily pleased brain. Hey, at least you're not big muscular and green saying, "Hulk Smash".
Yep, it sure is better to over-exaggerate the results of radioactive waste exposure in comic book terms rather than consider the real effects and dangers of nuclear power.
Theres nothing stopping them from putting some kind of scent into the hydrogen so you can tell when its leaking. Propane is also an odorless gas if i remember correctly. It smells like rotten eggs when its leaking because they add that scent to the gas so you can identify by scent when its leaking
Um, you do know that in a laptop battery (or a CD / MP3) player something that small couldn't leak out too much smelly gas too quickly. The response to a leak would be "Alright! Who farted?" or "Hey! Who crapped their pants?" and then the problem would remain ignored as someone says, "Hey buddy, light a match!"
You've got to remember that we are dealing with average human beings here.
other way around. The outer plate is grounded. What the tank/apc crews would touch on the inside would also be grounded. There is a layer of insulation between all three.
Oh goodness, I've got a better method to destroy the tank on the cheap!
A thermite net or rope.
Once the net hits the tank it ignites from the electrical field once a regular grenade goes pop. The thermite burns the tank into itty bitty chunks in no time flat.
Wow, taking down over-priced defense contracts is fun.
You have to do more than pierce the outer plate. Basically, the outer plate is charged, and the inner surface is grounded. The cap only discharges when something bridges the plates. 'course, if something doesn't bridge the plates, then it didn't penetrate and you're safe anyway.
Tank crews tend to retain their hearing after being in a tank that's impacted by enemy fire; an APC crew shouldn't have a significantly worse experience, assuming they're not dead or otherwise shredded by spalling.
So what would I do to defeat this armor?
Add in phosphorus or magnesium or perhaps toss in a liquid copper particle suspension + glass powder mix. The other option would be a carbon rod spread which would make a nice arc lamp. Another nice choice would be mix in a liquid which turns into a very poisonous gas upon high heat vaporization. Hell, even tossing in gasoline into the grenade pods would make a rather interesting reaction.
You MUST be young.
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The porn business really took off around 30 - 40 years ago after several court decisions made most porn legal (in the US.) With the advent of the VCR, porn exploded. It has NOT "always been so."
And YOU must be pretty young yourself.
Porn was pretty big before the 1940's (when the film ratings boards came into existence). Hell, do you think the Nickelodeons were exclusively devoted to cartoons Charlie Chaplin flicks? A big business at that time was stereogram (the cross-your-eyes 3D) porn (which makes me ponder the distinct lack of 3D porn magazines today. And I'm not talking POSER porn exclusively). Just because you don't know how to search for "silent movie" porn and "vintage" porn then do not claim to have all knowledge on something which anyone over 65 (and plenty of folks like me that are under 65) knows about.
http://www.drinkingandthinking.com/archives/00000
Among other things contained within, there was a DVD - and let me tell you that it was the best 21 bucks I have ever spent. What could this DVD possibly contain that would make me - a known cheapskate - spend 21+ bucks? Well folks, let me tell you: It was vintage erotica from 1930's France. Would you like me to repeat that? Okay... It was vintage erotica from 1930's France - aka PORN.
According to one of the reviews of this DVD on Amazon:
"A joyous celebration of unimpeded, unhindered sex. This DVD consists of 24 short silent B&W films from 20's and 30's France featuring various singles, couples, and groups in -- well, almost every possible combination, actually. Sure, they're just ordinary people, with the lumps, cellulite, and excess hair that ordinary people have; as such, I found it a pleasant antidote to the ridiculous excesses of modern porn. It also gives some explanation for the French reputation as lovers: every straight coupling starts with getting the woman off. Now that's what I call feminist!
Be warned; it's very explicit and includes lesbian, gay, straight, and group situations, as well as quite a number of cum shots. (Not that there's anything wrong with that...)"
So what do you think of that? Personally, as an expert on erotica (READ: Porn) I found the actual content of the disk quite interesting. It shows how little sex (or at least porn) has changed over the years. Much of the content is quite explicit and only suffers from the underdeveloped film and camera technology of the time. In fact, I think that this porn is BETTER than most of the crap being produced today. I mean... this stuff turned me while most porn just makes me laugh my ass off. Now only if the shaved way back then, it would be even more enjoyable.
Your comments just gave me an idea for an Internet moneymaker: e-lotto. Imagine being able to get Your Chance at BIG BUCKS!!! without having to leave the comfort of your house/trailer/projects. This would be like current Internet gambling, only with a state agency guaranteeing that the game isn't rigged and that your credit card info won't be stolen by some Bad People hosting their site from the Cayman Islands or somewhere.
Been there, done that...
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We are talking about atomic clocks here, mate. They measure the vibrations of single atoms, which is the closest we can come to true measurement of time. In fact, our units of time are defined as certain amounts of such vibrations. The guys who constructed the clocks were also fully aware of all particles that could possibly *affect* the mechanism (not taking into account the force-carrying particles of quantum physics, whose existence are not exactly confirmed I believe (IANAPhysicist tho)), and took that into account.
Ah, so if we were to take an atomic clock and mount it on a turntable which then begins to spin at 36000 RPM then the clocks must obviously slow down because of Relativity Effects rather than the divergence of the atomic vibrations along the rotational path. Sure. I wonder what would happen if we place the atomic clocks on a rapidly vibrating platform? Wouldn't a macro version of thermal vibration also throw the clocks off on proper timekeeping?
Simply put, I don't buy the argument of Relativity Effects on atomic clocks when the same experiment effect can be duplicated by simple Newton physics which say "a body in motion will in motion unless acted upon by an outside force" and that force is indeed the kinetic / potential energy of basic motion.
And for your favor I won't bring up the effect of neutrino collisions & cosmic rays when the plane went higher into the atmosphere and duplicated the "running in a light rain collides you with more raindrops than would fall on your head" effect.
I'm gonna write a script that will post "the horse is dead, please stop beating it" each time the slashdot story contains the word "again" in the title. Easy mod points.
My penis is sore... keep beating it.
(Had to be said. No really, it DID have to be said.)
Everyone should have a Death Ray.
Especially a battery operated, portable Death Ray!
I just picked up a 3 Watt laser diode at a Hamfest recently. It's whats at the core of the med-pack and portable med-pens displayed. This thing is really fucking cool. It will make paper and wire insulation, plastic, etc. burst into flame from about 1/4 inch away.
The diode is made by Spectra Diode Labs (SDL) and channels 3 Watts of optical energy at 808 nanometers into a fiber optic. I have that clamped into a standard mechanical pencil to hold the fiber and allow it to be directed with some control.
The spot that appears is very scary because it appears weak red, about 5 mW of visible light energy is present but 98 % of the optical power is invisible in the infrared spectrum.
I haven't tried any home laser surgery yet, but it makes a dandy wire stripper or marking scribe. I also use it to open sealed ni-cad battery packs and change cells for walkie-talkies, etc.
Yep, Everyone should have a Death Ray!
Wouldn't it be cheaper to buy (or scavange) the laser diode from a CD Burner, tack on a power supply and burn away?
Wouldnt this mean that we could also make a large microwave, and use it as some sort of weapon (not really).
You don't need a "large" microwave for that. The magnetron in a typical microwave oven is more than enough to cook someone, or so I'm told. Since the magnetron emits a coherent microwave beam, you can aim it at someone's head for maximum effect.
I think FUTURAMA already demonstrated that when Leela went on a killing spree in the "What If..." episode "ANTHOLOGY OF INTEREST I" when she wanted to find out "what it would be like if I were more impulsive"?
Leela smashed a hole in the microwave oven door, turned it on and killed Bender.
I would assume there SHOULD be some safety circuits to prevent such a method for creating a portable killing machine (by using a huge battery backpack and a power inverter or just plugging it into the car's power outlet while driving). However, given the corners cut in corporate profit motives, I suspect there may be MICROWAVE TOTING MURDERERS walking the streets right now.
Seriously though, there wouldn't be too much effort to turn a Microwave oven into a DEATH TOY with a bit of physical hacking of the case, electronics, shielding, & coming up with a really portable power supply.
Instead, I go into Starbucks and overhear people ordering grande cappucinos. These people's hearts usually then burst out of their chests and tap-dance on the table, but I digress.
Point being, there seems to be an overall trend of everything in America getting bigger: Coke cups, coffee cups, McDonalds sandwiches, and, possibly not unrelatedly, people's butts.
Alright already! I get the hint. I'll stop abusing the Penis Enlarging pills.
I wouldn't get to used to this 'revolution' in internet advertising. Righ now 6 figure marketing execs are in thier respective war rooms trying to figure out more lucrative ways for advertising on the internet. It has been know for quite sometime that pop-ads and banner ads have a very low click-through rate. I just phear what they might come up with next to replace them ...
Cocksucking advertisements.
If you buy their product they send professional cocksuckers out to give you a blowjob.
Of course they'll have to jack up the price to pay for shipping and cocksucking, but I can see a market for most everything then.
I want to know what's faster, ludicrous speed or breakneck speed.
Ludicrous Speed involves cartoon animals.
Breakneck Speed requires a neck to break.
Therefore, a cartoon animal will outrun a fish, but not if it's a cartoon fish. Given that you can safely assume that Ludicrous Speed easily is faster than Breakneck Speed (as Breaking The Neck of the Speeder should pretty much end the speeding). If you are a cartoon animal you cannot permanently break your neck so therefore you can exceed Breakneck Speeds.
That's going to take a while, what with the pesky laws of thermodynamics. We need Space Chickens to fulfill that rather lofty goal. In fact, if we increase the caloric intake of the entire world's population, the mass of the earth's bisphere would actually decrease due to heat losses and whatnot. Oh the woes of being an entropic lifeform.
(Not that Christians are all that keen on the laws of Thermodynamics, but I suppose you HINT HINT wanted this link posted.)
Adventures with Chickens developed by RockSolidSoftware is a whimsical Christian
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rescue purple Chickens from suffocating in the harsh confines of deep space.
Along the way you get a healthy dose of scripture!
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Features
Edutainment - Learn the Bible as you play.
Non-Violent Christian based gameplay for the whole family.
High Resolution graphics and DirectX.
Digital sound FX and music.
Supports different difficulty levels and pieces to play with.
25 levels in Registered Version.
(On the upside the Space Chickens are flash frozen in the cold depths of space.)
But... if on the off chance that it really works and could be used in commercial projects and could bring billions (trillions?) in sales and licensing royalties...
... just ... might ... work!
Seems like a worthwhile risk to me.
Exactly! Remember the alchemists of the 16-19th century kept on bonking their heads against the wall trying to find the Philosopher's Stone, and incidentally invented modern chemistry as a by-product. Nice little windfall, that!
It is to be hoped that some great science will be spun out of this (probably doomed) effort for anti-gravity.
And don't forget the Mad Scientist's Motto: It
Agreed! Science (especially MAD SCIENCE) is RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT. Something has to be thought of, tried, and proven or disproven and then a slightly different approach taken if the results seemed promising.
SCIENCE CANNOT PROGRESS WITHOUT A SCIENTIST - DOING SOMETHING The explaining how the something interesting happened comes later usually if the experiment isn't life endangering.
The second most important concept of science is PEER REVIEW. If nobody else can duplicate the experiment, then perhaps the initial assumption is faulty and needs to be rethought. Breakthrough science never got into existence without someone willing to try something crazy just to see if anything happens (again noting that experiments which have proven failed need not be repeated if the results are without conflict - ergo jumping out of high windows to attempt unaided flight even though all previous volunteer subjects have died outright).
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That attack can work against users, too. If properly placed and timed, a NO CARRIER can be very convincing...
All those AOL-nitwits will always fall for obvious pranks.
My favorite is to go into an online RPG, make a character named "SYSTEM ERROR" or "PROGRAM VIOLATION" or "OUT OF MEMORY" or "ERROR 125" then go up to a bunch of newbies and EMOTE - "Please Shut Down Your Computer and Reboot".
Nothing as giggle inducing as seeing a bunch of idiots blink offline because they EXPECT AND ARE USED TO continual MICROSOFT CRAPWARE system bugs.
People are TOO DAMN GULLIBLE THESE DAYS. Not an ounce of critical independant thinking among the lot of them it seems.
Just think of all the Pr0N I'll have to pay royalties on!
And you thought you were going to get away without paying for your pr0n...
They'll get my porn when they pry it from my wet, sticky, warm hands. I might be more generous if they pull then push then pull and push some more though...
It isn't the rubbing that bothers me, it is the throbbing and the swelling.
Time travel "What If" type scenarios are silly. You have two problems, first, at that time in his life, he had not commited any of those crimes and you would be in effect killing an innocent man. Second, there is no way to insure by removing him things wouldn't be worse, another, dictator could rise up, put Germany on the H-Bomb fast track and use it first against Russia, winning the war. Perhaps because some economic plan was never implemented, Germany and possibly Europe could have remained in a depression for much longer, causing millions to die of starvation and or disease. Or WWII may happened anyway, changing virtually nothing.
Okay, what if we go back in time, gouge out both of Hitler's eyes, ruin his voice, crush both of his hands, chop off both of his legs and then tattoo "I love sucking off dogs" (in German) on every square inch of his flesh, oh and chop off his balls so he could never reproduce?
He'd still be ALIVE. Just not the poster child of Nazi-cult. Works for me.
Microsoft penis enlargement: The purple scream of death.
Nah, they'd just send some pills that would shrink the penis until it's a nubby dot, but they would send you progressively smaller scaled down rulers to make it appear everything about your penis got bigger (ergo - The first week the ruler measures 1"=1", second week 1" on their ruler would equal 1/2" on a normal ruler. The third week 1 normal inch = 1/4" on a normal ruler). That way they could appear to be showing extreme growth, but all they are doing is shrinking their rulers drastically compared to a regular ruler.
And of course they'd include a cream as their Free Genital Security Upgrade that would give you genital lice so they could sell you completely ineffective "cures" which end up coloring the lice a different shade or make the lice smell better, but never actually kill the bugs. You'd need a third-party solution that would make the bugs only bother you during the night. And then the Microsoft Penis Enlarger Corp would outlaw "Linux-Rit" which effectively kills the lice, but gives a small percentage of the population allergic reactions. That of course would give Microsoft Penis Enlarger Corp the basis for another lawsuit.
This story was ran a few week back, and was proved a dupe back then because of their is no such thing as a kelvar enforced cd.
When you get some READING COMPREHENSION SKILLS, get back to us.
They wrapped some KEVLAR WIRE around the CD to reinforce it. They could have easily made it COPPER REINFORCED by wrapping copper wire around the CD too. Goodness sakes, I hate WILLFULLY STUPID PEOPLE.