SO... TO MAKE OUR SKIES SAFE: only 3 at a time, naked and with hand and feet chained fast to your seat; nothing else in tow. that would about do it.
Hmm... the passengers naked & chained to their seats. Welcome to Bondage Air where the Second Class is REALLY Second Class and the First Class gets deal out discipline to those naughty naughty Second Class riders.
I found a non-overclocked dremel will easily cause the cd's outer tracks to skew. Extreme vibration will be the result as the cd warps quickly. Speed will drop quickly due to this imbalance. Solution: turn up the power!
I wonder what would happen if you used a heat gun to soften up the outer tracks as it spins fast. I wonder if these CDs would stretch to the size of pizza dishes (extremely warped dishes of course). Since you've already got the spinner made, you only need a $25 heat gun.
Like the problem is that there is a real issue with the machines, as much as two other things.
1)voters who claim their vote wasnt taken (how do they know? Did the machine go:ding: "you smell.. Im not taking your vote! No vote for you!" or something? Remember.. these people were too stupid in a lot of cases to understand how to poke a hole in a butterfly ballot or to follow a line to a persons name.. you expect them to make a bilingual computer screen work?
2) SOmeone who wanted to get elected did not get elected, and knowing the machines were under an NDA or were otherwise inauditable at the moment (even though they apparently passed all their initial tests with flying colors) started screaming ITS THE MACHINES FAULT! Great tradition we have started here.. "The people did not elect me by their votes.. I must challenge and challenge until I win!"
Cant we just go back to the days of dropping small rocks into boxes for votes? *sigh*
Maeryk
And yet the EXAMPLE we already have is GEORGE WORTHLESS BUSH SUING to make the other guy lose. He sued again and again to stop hand recounts of the ballots, had James Baker claim we SHOULD NOT count overseas military ballots because they would come from Israel and would be Jewish/AL GORE marked, then SUE to count the ballots after the period to submit them passed when they figured the military would vote for BUSH (with cites to note that military officers ended up getting TWO ballots or more to vote with), then Katherine Harris and her pro-Republican operatives illegally operating in her office to fix the dates and names on the Republican military ballots while trashing the Democratic military ballots, and so on until the Corrupt Supreme Court ends up appointing George Worthless Bush when the Florida Supreme Court finally went through and ordered a statewide recount (which George Worthless Bush refused repeatedly).
Florida sent duplicate ballots overseas Defense Department employee alleges that some co-workers on an air base in England voted twice.
By Carina Chocano
Nov. 9, 2000 | At least five Florida residents serving at a U.S. Air Force base in England received two absentee ballots for this year's hotly contested presidential race, a civilian Department of Defense employee told Salon. Elaine Gatley, 48, a civil service executive secretary stationed at RAF Mildenhall in southeastern England, said Thursday that she and four fellow Floridians who work in her office received two ballots in the mail from the state of Florida.
"At first I thought it was just a fluke," Gatley said. "But when I went to work the next day, I talked to my friends and they said, 'Yeah, I received two also.'"
Gatley, a registered Democrat, completed and returned only one of the ballots she received. But she said that at least three of her fellow Floridians, all of whom are registered Republican, told her that they filled out and returned the second ballots as well.
"These people thought there was something wrong with the original ballot," said Gatley, who is married to an Air Force serviceman. "They just sent the second ballot in, thinking maybe something was wrong."
The duplicate ballots were mailed from election offices in at least three Florida counties -- Santa Rosa, Osceola and Hillsborough -- according to Gatley. The multiple ballots were sent to registered Democrats, as well as Republicans, she said.
"But the majority of overseas military people are Republicans," added Gatley. "It's usually the spouses, you know, the civilians, who are Democrats."
One of Gatley's Republican co-workers at the Air Force base confirmed to Salon that she had received two ballots from Florida. She requested that her name not be used.
According to Gatley, the majority of the base's staff comes from Florida. Gatley was formerly employed at Eglin Air Force Base near Navarre, Fla.
No one from other states with whom she spoke at Milden received more than one absentee ballot, said Gatley.
According to a Florida Elections Board official, it's common for counties to send out sample ballots before mailing the official absentee ballot. The sample should be clearly labeled, said the official, who requested anonymity.
The official also said that if someone sends in two ballots, election officials simply void one of them, not both.
But told of this comment, Gatley said she could discern no difference between the two ballots she received, nor could her co-workers. She said neither ballot was clearly marked as a sample.
Absentee ballots are still being counted in the controversial Florida race. Officials say the final absentee tally might not be completed for another eight or nine days. With George W. Bush clinging to a razor-thin lead in the Florida recount, the absentee-ballot tabulation has taken on critical importance. --- Would you like me to cite more? I have plenty on the Criminal Republican Criminal Party Criminal election fraud. Unlike you I was awake through the whole thing.
Thanks for the link. The box looks a little like a portable ATM machine. It has always been a dream of mine, that voting and paying your yearly taxes ought to happen during the same event. Pay first, then immediately vote. Think about it.;-) How would that change the responibility equation of the candidates?
But back on topic, how many people would trust an ATM machine that did not spit out a receipt? How many people would trust a bank that refused to issue a balance statement? I am not saying we have to identify each voter by name on the ballot - but we do need a paper trail in case we need an audit.
You've got it dead right. Voting occurs in November which is 7 months from April. The receipt is a problem (though required in Republican rallies) as your boss could can you for not voting his ticket.
I think this technology sounds cool; after all, with a light-emitting display, you could light a room and browse the web with the same piece of equipment. However, I question whether it is a good idea from a safety perspective. I foresee people being blinded by these things. Any thoughts?
I think since it can be printed on clear plastic there is a good chance to replace fluorescent light tube or just place these in powerline-tethered connected squares across the ceiling and do away with single-point light sources entirely.
I personally think that given the nature of this light emitter it would make a fantastic wall-trim light. Print out a long strip, which is stuck to the floor trim on the wall (with a painted over thin metal conducting strip at one end to make the circuit. Just trim and glue to end of the strip to the final conducting spot and plug in to light (but a built-in deal would be more professional looking).
Then when going to another room during the night you'd always have a lighted pathway between the rooms.
I used to play around with Vasopressin, which facilitates creating new memories. Interesting drug, it really did help me to pick up certain info quicker. I believe they stopped making it.
Vasopressin is a peptide hormone found naturally in the brain and is partly responsible for the formation of memories. Its effects rapidly improve short-term memory and enhance memory imprints (i.e. after the event).
(Hey, in this state of the nation we NEED ALL THE SMART PEOPLE WE CAN GET!)
I find that quite odd considering that it takes about 1/4 of the price of a console to get a really high-end gamepad, the likes of which won't be seen on a console any time soon.
The fact that the extensibility of the PC is so often ignored irritates me to some degree. Plugging a quality gamepad is not hard, and in some cases with USB pads, you don't even need to set anything up(except for calibrating). Personally, I'd much rather spend the 50 bucks for a quality gamepad, and hook my PC up to my TV, than spend 500 dollars for a console(plus several hundred dollars to replace the games I already own).
Ah, but there is the problem of WINDOWS itself hampering gamepad use for decades. I bought a cheap analog joystick to play games with and at rest point it jittered the screen when left untouched. The reason is simple, if there is a leaky potentiometer the signal isn't zero, but a string of numbers bouncing in all directions. WINDOWS does not have a single method to define DEAD ZONES to ignore zero-point signal quivers. Most consoles have the compensation of the leaky zero-point joystick signal on the controller written into their development software so they do not have this issue except on the cheaper controllers.
I could get by with a cheap multi-button analog joystick for most games if only WINDOWS had created a DEAD ZONE option in their crappy joystick interface crapware. That is one of the main reasons people by default use the keypad on PC games and has ALWAYS been the reason (though the pricer joysticks have software corrections for any ZERO-POINT / Joystick at rest jitters so the gamer need not endure the WINDOWS crapware joystick interface.
Yeah, analog joysticks are cheap, but getting over WINDOWS & MICROSOFT-CRAPWARE is the bother for everyone.
He'd probably have Data come back to life after sacrificing himself for the crew. At least as it stands, there is some question about whether or not the android Data created in his own image is actually achieving a copy of Data's personality, but Spielberg would probably freeze them both and have them come back after everybody else dies like he did in A.I.
Lucas is where it's at. Episode 3 will blow 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6 away. He just needed to get used to CGI with a couple of warm-up episodes.
Uh, I hate to spoil it, but the hint in the MIB II preview of Nemesis is that Data brings his evil twin brother back. So there is a good chance only the copy gets blown-up.
And masturbation making you go blind, life at 60 will really bite the big one.
The lesson is point it away from your eyes when it shoots.
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Oh my god. It's at this point I have to stop reading this horrible FUD..er FAQ. Disable DRM, and the DRM enabled functionality in DRM enabled apps will cease to work, the apps will continue to work. Sure, you can't open your ULTRA-7 security level report, that the NSA sent to you, but there's good reason for that. Turn back on the trust management, and then open that report. And what's with saying it's like switching from Windows to Linux? First, what the fook is wrong with Linux bitch? and second, that makes no sense!
Oh goody, then when MONSANTO decides that once you try their Genetically Enhanced Food Products you can then continue (of your own free will) to try to survive when you can no longer digest non-MONSANTO non-Genetically-Modified-Food. Soon the world will have a whole collection of FrankenFood camps where the populations can only consume the products from that food line alone or face serious genetic defects and crippling illnesses. After all, we wouldn't want the Wage Slaves to free themselves from the Corporate Monarchy. That would reduce the population to independent and FREE civilians. The future looks damn bleak because we humans are far too cow-like in our outrage. Outrage is just another emotion to be dismissed by musical or video distraction.
Does this seem farfetched? Then why the FUCK are they trying to do this to our software? They certainly are making moves to our food supplies. Soon the absolute control of all members of the human species will be in the unyielding grip of a BEAST called the Corporate Monarchy. They of course will be small in number and complete in their control for all eternity. If any member of the Corporate Monarchy chooses to sabotage the BEAST from within, they also will fall under the wrath of the other 30 Corporate Monarchs. The BEAST will no longer be in the control, but a ransacking machine which milks its daily existence from those self-deluded Corporate Monarchs.
We already see the beginnings of the Police State which will keep the rabble under control. That is because the day which every person watches their neighbor is no longer a technical hurdle. The day when machines watch everyone at once will be rather rapid as well.
We are at the uncomfortable threshold of a social evolution in which all ideas are free and worldwide. Where everyone can become a publisher and celebrity instantly. Where the control is once again in the individual's grasp and the chance for worldwide sanity breaking out is very high. There is even the chance of the critical threshold of the necessary intellect for true worldwide glory. As the sunshine of ideas glows and the public consciousness can once again illuminate against the lightless ignorance we have a cabal of our species which will enact tolls, fees, extort, terrorize, murder, exploit, and stifle that light of ideas so that their own cowering worthlessness is not exposed. This revolution has happened before and will happen again in some other form.
First we began with the medium of charred sticks on cave walls, then clay tablets, then papyrus, then paper, then engraved printing, block type, photolithography, and now the digital revolution. All forms of written communication upon which the cost of information transfer has been reduced to near-free levels. Do not mistake my mindset for anti-corporate rabble-rousing (as corporations have a needed place in the world) because small business cannot meet the needs of the world alone. My main beef is with the mega-global-corporations that seek to treat humanity as cattle, or sheep, or pigs, or basically everything that would reduce them to slave status for only the desire to control their fellow humans forever. We already have ample proof of their Corporate crimes against humanity and sadly near universal American support for these crimes in exchange for cheap T-Shirts, overpriced NIKE (child slavery) shoes, and cheap electronics in Wal-Mart. We also love our cheap oil in exchange for the blood of the people in nations around the oil fields. Is it not sad and strange how America loves to embrace and enrich those Corporate Monarchs who would gladly enslave them outright in the near future? For everyone who thinks (32.6%) there are 32.31% who will gladly drink your blood and another 32.5% of the SHEEP-PEOPLE who will do nothing but pick their noses while the blood-thirsty 32.31% stab you in the gut repeatedly just to see you writhe just look at the election percents for a hint) with just 0.75% (less than 1% =.0075 * American voting populations).
With all due respect, you're an idiot. The second a few big distributers get busted, the majority of distributers will cower under their beds. Would you be willing to share GBs of MP3s on your broadband connection if the other big guys around you were getting their systems confiscated and facing major fines they could lose their homes over? History has shown intimidation works well, and it will continue to work well. People just want their music; they don't care about fighting the man.
The second a regular individual goes to jail that will be the instant I BOYCOTT ALL RIAA MEDIA and that will be it. If they want to imprison their customers then they will not have any money in the future from me until I am happy that the RIAA is rotting in their own graves.
The main reason sales are down right now to near zero levels is the busting of Napster and other file-sharing sources. The RIAA method is going to have to end with the elimination of all television and radio - so there is no reason not to give them a taste of what happens when they bite Mommy America's Teat. Go ahead, RIAA and intimidate me and I will make it a cause to crap in your hand every chance I get.
To sum it up - BUST YOUR CUSTOMERS and we customers BOYCOTT YOU FOR LIFE. These are your rules RIAA, live with them at your own peril.
I'm not the only person that realizes that a klein bottle can't be made with lego? Or with anything that we know of... klein bottles can't really be represented in three dimensions...
Um, (claps one hand against belly or other skin-coated surface) you must have overlooked these. http://www.kleinbottle.com/
Although I cannot figure how as it is the first hit when I GOOGLE a [ Klein Bottle ] search. There is even a Klein Coffee cup! Now stop being silly and order one for goodness sake.
Well for starters cigarettes cost $7.50 a pack not because this is the price the free market has settled on but because of taxation by the city. Thus what the price of cigarettes is set at is hardly relevant.
Yes the drug addicts will pay any price *necessery* to aquire their drugs. However, drugs are the ultimate commodity item. An addict could give a fuck which brand name heroin he scores as long as it is heroin. Now from basic economics we see that in a competitive market the price of a commodity drops to the cost of production (yes in a monopoly it will be increased as high as the market will bear but a legal drug market will have plenty of competition). Take a look at the UK/netherlands plans to prescribe heroin to addicts...legal opiates (and certainly legal synthetic drugs like meth) are cheap as ass to produce. The rarity is caused by police enforcement not any essential high price of precursurs.
Maybe the mindset should be to push cigarette prices downward below a workable profit margin. Then the dealers can distribute as much as they want an never make a profit (shades of some internet websites business models).
Spam me, and you will never, ever, get my money To enforce this, you have to read all your spam.
Not really, for webpage spam I just added their addresses to my HOSTS file. If you do a search in Windows for "Hosts" (no extension) and open that file with notepad you can now enter 127.0.0.1 ads.doubleclick.com (or any website you do not like). That will remove that ad server from your eyeballs forever. You have to save the HOSTS file with just "Save" and not "Save As..." or it will save it as HOSTS.TXT which won't do you any good.
You will still get the popups, but you will have no idea who they are from and their product will go unobserved (as is fitting I think).
Another fun thing is to go into your cookies folder and mangle cookies with Notepad from the worst abusers (Doubleclick) so as to screw up their servers.
As for email protection there is a Message Rules option in LOOKOUT EXPRESS which you can use to block messages by email keywords (the sponsor site or a phone number) or senders (using Block Sender).
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If freon contains CFCs and eats up the ozone layer, what will MS Freon do?
Destroy all my linux distribution CDs?
Contain all of the suckiness of ULTIMATE TV boxes (which will be cannibalized for this project), the "Green/Blue Screen of Death" of ALL MICROSOFT CRAPWARE, the Megalomaniacal desires of the Uber-Spoiled-Rich-Boy-Nerd, a Fast-Forward "Commercial Skip" button which will be advertised to death until it is revoked in Version 2.00001 (one day after release) so Billy Gates can suck up more advertising dollars from obnoxious marketing drones, zero of the features promised working correctly, billions of lines of mega-patched (never rewritten) buggy spaghetti code, a ticket price of $500, a monthly user fee of $19.95 so you can actually use the crapware's "Program Guide" (failure to pay will result in disabling of all features until payment is received), and an internal (overpriced) cellphone so Gates can update your guide & spy on your viewing habits & disable people smart enough to hack out the MS-Crapware(TM)+ Report them to the BSA + DMCA goonsquad.
I figure a 33% sales rate nationwide as that was the percentage last election that was moronic enough to vote for a Drug-Addict Son-Of-A-Bush who's lifetime incompetence, corruption, and treason is sadly obvious to most every thinking American (except that hardcore moron-base of 33%).
Yes, I'm not a great sketcher (with or w/o computer). I cannot draw anything like the two figures you posted. I stand by my original comment. Also, the car was by someone who was blind from birth and has no experience drawing or using the program (IC2D).
On the other hand, with force feedback being an option these days I'd think blind people would have some advantage drawing 3D shapes at the very least and being able to do some mostly decent 2D drawings if the stylus would "bump" over lines already drawn (there is already a mouse that can do force-feedback and is thusly a good choice of tools for blind-rendered art).
What could be a better gig than to infiltrate the
government and then start shaving those pennies off the taxdollars. How much
money do think is unaccounted for for the last year in the Federal Government? A
million? Hundred million? Billion? How about around 100 billion.I'm just guessing about the mob thing, but what if it were
true? Would you want the mob rewriting the constitution so it wouldn't get in
their way? Would you?Does it have to be the stereotypical mob that you see on
television? Does it even have to be the proper mob, or even have connections
with the historical mob, if they are acting in the same ways?Do you realize that all the members of the significant
corporate boards sit on each others tables? It's like a big family I guess.
Enron, Global Crossing, Worldcom, etc. This is organized crime. And they've got
the ear of lawmakers. Maybe they are some of the lawmakers. How long will the United States be able to maintain this
level of corruption before things start to unravel?
Well, since the Bush Fraud Mass-Murdering Criminal
Family has taken over once again this has happened.
Where is the 2.3 Trillion Dollars?By Max Emfinger Date: May 12,
2002http://maxemfingerrecruiting.theinsiders.com/2/475 71.html?noredir=1Congresswoman McKinney has asked that we investigate whether the
reports by numerous mainstream press that we had been warned are true and why
they failed to help protect us. She has also asked why there is $2.3
trillion missing at the Pentagon as confirmed by Secretary Rumsfeld in
Congressional Testimony before the Armed Services Committee of which
Congresswoman McKinney is a member. http://civic.net/civic-values.archive/200204/msg00 010.htmlA General Accounting Office report in April said hundreds of
billions of dollars in the $1.2 trillion of Property, Plant and Equipment across
the federal government were not adequately supported by financial and/or
logistical records. The report also found that DoD has $5.2 billion in missing
inventory. The Pentagon claims that Selected Acquisition Reports can be used to
determine individual weapons costs, but Taxpayers For Common Sense said that the
acquisition reports are not auditable and other records that might yield total
weapons costs are completely inaccurate.http://www.infowar.com/mil_c4i/mil_c4i_060898a_j.h tml-ssi
Of course, we can blame the accountants (Lockheed Martin), but
that wouldn't be fair to all of the other thieves. The Bush Fraud
Mass-Murdering Criminal Family has stolen TRILLIONS and America is
suffering the result.
If you add in the Soviet/Asian oil fields, the CIA attack on
the World Trade Centers to allow the Afghan Oil Pipeline, and China getting free
manufacturing tech from greedy and stupid American execs like Black & Decker
and Tyco then what happens if China closed its trade with us and grabbed the
untapped oil fields for themselves? Thank Wal-Mart folks. That is
the gateway for China's power-leverage against America.
www.almartinraw.com
pretty much has everything you'd need to know about the Bush Fraud
Mass-Murdering Criminal Family and then some.
its a great site... I'm a subscriber, which is more than I can say for/.
Lets not forget the book reviews and highly pretentious soft core porn.
I used to be a subscriber too. I helped them out when they were in dire straits because they had insightful investigative journalism. Then they ran that hatchet-job slam on the fantastic Media Whore debunkers MediaWhoresOnline & Bartcop.com . If they were going to attack the honest side of online media they could have used a more competent ring-toothed whore than Jennifer Liberto and her "Rabid Watchdog" (more like rabid rightwing attack-whore).
Salon had some great stuff and they threw it all away to jump in bed with the fake-conservatives who will gladly stab them many times before crapping on their corpse. Court the whore and expect to rot from the crotch.
Behave yourselves trolls, you are
"providing senior-level business readers with access to cutting-edge,
high-tech content"
ROFLMAO
I thought you were bullshitting me until I clicked the
link.
MOD THAT PARENT POST UP!
Should we all give a collective shudder when www.goatse.cx hits the NASDAQ?
I know I will.
There is no such thing as an "electron-beam laser." Lasers by definition emit photons, not electrons. Anyway, any clean electron-beam process requires VACUUM, which increases cost and decreases throughput by at least one order of magnitude, often more.
Uh, you are aware they call it the electromagnetic spectrum? Electrons are really high-energy photons.
Obviously you wouldn't use a magnetic induction charger that you hung on your mouth. You'd use an induction coil under your pillow. I don't know the health implications of having your head in an oscillating magnetic field for hours a day. Particularly when the rest of your body isn't in it so there can be current flow.
Ah, but there is the rub! (Uses the jar of IcyHot... after doing cheap Shakespear joke)
They sold stoves like this. The induction coil would cause heat in any metal above the stovetop without releasing any heat. It would flip polarities rapidly and this would cause heat. The problem with this system is if you're wearing a ring or wristwatch and then... OUCH!
The problem with using such a strong magnetic field is in zapping the alarm clock people leave near their beds, their watches, their rings, their braces, their mercury fillings (which should be replaced with ceramic or polymer as the mercury leeches out and causes serious neurological and immune disorders at the least), their shiny gold teeth caps, piercings (which should be removed at bedtime), etc...
A magnetic induction charger would have to have a very strong localized field (like a harddrive write head) to avoid these side effects. Then we hit the issues of battery composition (leeching metals and the memory effect killing the battery) and ionic bleed-through (the active ions in the saliva along with the acids in food will cause inductance drains regardless of how well insulated the battery is).
Okay, enough of that... these concepts are great only when they're running off bioelectricity at the very least (perhaps a few thousand electric eel cells implanted in the jawline being genetically engineered to not cause immune issues) and batteries don't work well in such small scales. I have yet to see a plastic survive the human immune system unaltered by the trip. Ceramic is the only thing which has any hope of remaining functional for decades.
Anyhow onto the piezoelectric concept. It works if the battery drain is VERY low as people don't chew constantly and lots of people have overbites and underbites which means the upper and lower teeth only make contact during chewing. There isn't much energy to scavange there. Even with turning the mouth into an ionic battery (running an anode / cathode junction between jaw and the wisdom teeth - not under the tongue, but along the lip / jaw line) there will still be metal leeching which isn't good for any human in the long run. Sure there is plenty of acids and alkalines in the human mouth, but tapping them means there has to be waste metal ions going somewhere into the digestive tract and body fat stores.
Like I wrote. Nice concept in about another decade or so, just damn silly an useless right now (similar to using VR hand gesture recognition in a mobile workzone while going down the sidewalk). The social interaction issues alone are a big issue even with disregarding the very basic technical hurdles.
You could have it be a "dumb" device. It could communicate with the actual device a la Blue tooth and just act as a speaker and microphone. Benefits to using it as a dumb device would include allowing audio communication with any device that communicates in that protocol (laptops, PDAs, cell phones, pagers, portable audio devices, or even cordless adapters to work with an existing device that has an existing stereo headphone or line-in/out jack.
While the article is low on details, I would guess that it would be possible to implant multiple devices that are tuned to the user's individul characteristics to provide high fidelity, stereo sound.
I hesitate at using any previously mentioned technology implanted in your body other than for medical reasons, but this sounds really cool. Depending on price (and the results of safety studies), I would sign up for this one.
One thing REALLY bugs me about this.
How do you charge the battery? Seriously, the only easy way is a magnetic inductance charger. But then who wants to have a jaw recharger hanging from their lips for 3 hours or more? Contact charging is even worse with conductive saliva. It would be like having a 9-volt battery under your tongue all day. And how long can a battery that small hold a charge? Even if it just transmits to a signal booster on the belt a few feet away that will still suck down the juice on the battery constantly.
The concept is silly and pointless.
If we could have radioactive plutonium batteries that small it MIGHT work, but there is no room for adequate rad shielding in a tooth-sized area.
Seriously, I've already begun to have problems identifying insane people here, with all the hands-free phones. Since I live in New York there's actually a good chance that the guy you see talking to himself doesn't have a hands-free phone...
Ah, so should we give homeless people our non-working junk cell phones so they can retain a measure of dignity while they converse with the voices in their head? Fascinating concept.
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SO... TO MAKE OUR SKIES SAFE: only 3 at a time, naked and with hand and feet chained fast to your seat; nothing else in tow. that would about do it.
Hmm... the passengers naked & chained to their seats. Welcome to Bondage Air where the Second Class is REALLY Second Class and the First Class gets deal out discipline to those naughty naughty Second Class riders.
I see a market for this somehow.
I found a non-overclocked dremel will easily cause the cd's outer tracks to skew. Extreme vibration will be the result as the cd warps quickly. Speed will drop quickly due to this imbalance. Solution: turn up the power!
I wonder what would happen if you used a heat gun to soften up the outer tracks as it spins fast. I wonder if these CDs would stretch to the size of pizza dishes (extremely warped dishes of course). Since you've already got the spinner made, you only need a $25 heat gun.
Like the problem is that there is a real issue with the machines, as much as two other things.
:ding: "you smell.. Im not taking your vote! No vote for you!" or something? Remember.. these people were too stupid in a lot of cases to understand how to poke a hole in a butterfly ballot or to follow a line to a persons name.. you expect them to make a bilingual computer screen work?
d uplicate/
1)voters who claim their vote wasnt taken (how do they know? Did the machine go
2) SOmeone who wanted to get elected did not get elected, and knowing the machines were under an NDA or were otherwise inauditable at the moment (even though they apparently passed all their initial tests with flying colors) started screaming ITS THE MACHINES FAULT!
Great tradition we have started here.. "The people did not elect me by their votes.. I must challenge and challenge until I win!"
Cant we just go back to the days of dropping small rocks into boxes for votes?
*sigh*
Maeryk
And yet the EXAMPLE we already have is GEORGE WORTHLESS BUSH SUING to make the other guy lose. He sued again and again to stop hand recounts of the ballots, had James Baker claim we SHOULD NOT count overseas military ballots because they would come from Israel and would be Jewish/AL GORE marked, then SUE to count the ballots after the period to submit them passed when they figured the military would vote for BUSH (with cites to note that military officers ended up getting TWO ballots or more to vote with), then Katherine Harris and her pro-Republican operatives illegally operating in her office to fix the dates and names on the Republican military ballots while trashing the Democratic military ballots, and so on until the Corrupt Supreme Court ends up appointing George Worthless Bush when the Florida Supreme Court finally went through and ordered a statewide recount (which George Worthless Bush refused repeatedly).
WERE YOU IN A FUCKING COMA DUMBSHIT?
God damn you, I hate Criminal Republican Criminal Party Criminal shills.
http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/11/09/
Florida sent duplicate ballots overseas Defense Department employee alleges that some co-workers on an air base in England voted twice.
By Carina Chocano
Nov. 9, 2000 | At least five Florida residents serving at a U.S. Air Force base in England received two absentee ballots for this year's hotly contested presidential race, a civilian Department of Defense employee told Salon. Elaine Gatley, 48, a civil service executive secretary stationed at RAF Mildenhall in southeastern England, said Thursday that she and four fellow Floridians who work in her office received two ballots in the mail from the state of Florida.
"At first I thought it was just a fluke," Gatley said. "But when I went to work the next day, I talked to my friends and they said, 'Yeah, I received two also.'"
Gatley, a registered Democrat, completed and returned only one of the ballots she received. But she said that at least three of her fellow Floridians, all of whom are registered Republican, told her that they filled out and returned the second ballots as well.
"These people thought there was something wrong with the original ballot," said Gatley, who is married to an Air Force serviceman. "They just sent the second ballot in, thinking maybe something was wrong."
The duplicate ballots were mailed from election offices in at least three Florida counties -- Santa Rosa, Osceola and Hillsborough -- according to Gatley. The multiple ballots were sent to registered Democrats, as well as Republicans, she said.
"But the majority of overseas military people are Republicans," added Gatley. "It's usually the spouses, you know, the civilians, who are Democrats."
One of Gatley's Republican co-workers at the Air Force base confirmed to Salon that she had received two ballots from Florida. She requested that her name not be used.
According to Gatley, the majority of the base's staff comes from Florida. Gatley was formerly employed at Eglin Air Force Base near Navarre, Fla.
No one from other states with whom she spoke at Milden received more than one absentee ballot, said Gatley.
According to a Florida Elections Board official, it's common for counties to send out sample ballots before mailing the official absentee ballot. The sample should be clearly labeled, said the official, who requested anonymity.
The official also said that if someone sends in two ballots, election officials simply void one of them, not both.
But told of this comment, Gatley said she could discern no difference between the two ballots she received, nor could her co-workers. She said neither ballot was clearly marked as a sample.
Absentee ballots are still being counted in the controversial Florida race. Officials say the final absentee tally might not be completed for another eight or nine days. With George W. Bush clinging to a razor-thin lead in the Florida recount, the absentee-ballot tabulation has taken on critical importance.
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Would you like me to cite more? I have plenty on the Criminal Republican Criminal Party Criminal election fraud. Unlike you I was awake through the whole thing.
Thanks for the link. The box looks a little like a portable ATM machine. ;-) How would that change the responibility equation of the candidates?
It has always been a dream of mine, that voting and paying your yearly taxes ought to happen during the same event. Pay first, then immediately vote. Think about it.
But back on topic, how many people would trust an ATM machine that did not spit out a receipt? How many people would trust a bank that refused to issue a balance statement? I am not saying we have to identify each voter by name on the ballot - but we do need a paper trail in case we need an audit.
You've got it dead right. Voting occurs in November which is 7 months from April. The receipt is a problem (though required in Republican rallies) as your boss could can you for not voting his ticket.
I think this technology sounds cool; after all, with a light-emitting display, you could light a room and browse the web with the same piece of equipment. However, I question whether it is a good idea from a safety perspective. I foresee people being blinded by these things. Any thoughts?
I think since it can be printed on clear plastic there is a good chance to replace fluorescent light tube or just place these in powerline-tethered connected squares across the ceiling and do away with single-point light sources entirely.
I personally think that given the nature of this light emitter it would make a fantastic wall-trim light. Print out a long strip, which is stuck to the floor trim on the wall (with a painted over thin metal conducting strip at one end to make the circuit. Just trim and glue to end of the strip to the final conducting spot and plug in to light (but a built-in deal would be more professional looking).
Then when going to another room during the night you'd always have a lighted pathway between the rooms.
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(Hey, in this state of the nation we NEED ALL THE SMART PEOPLE WE CAN GET!)
Do you have any references for that?
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I find that quite odd considering that it takes about 1/4 of the price of a console to get a really high-end gamepad, the likes of which won't be seen on a console any time soon.
The fact that the extensibility of the PC is so often ignored irritates me to some degree. Plugging a quality gamepad is not hard, and in some cases with USB pads, you don't even need to set anything up(except for calibrating). Personally, I'd much rather spend the 50 bucks for a quality gamepad, and hook my PC up to my TV, than spend 500 dollars for a console(plus several hundred dollars to replace the games I already own).
Ah, but there is the problem of WINDOWS itself hampering gamepad use for decades. I bought a cheap analog joystick to play games with and at rest point it jittered the screen when left untouched. The reason is simple, if there is a leaky potentiometer the signal isn't zero, but a string of numbers bouncing in all directions. WINDOWS does not have a single method to define DEAD ZONES to ignore zero-point signal quivers. Most consoles have the compensation of the leaky zero-point joystick signal on the controller written into their development software so they do not have this issue except on the cheaper controllers.
I could get by with a cheap multi-button analog joystick for most games if only WINDOWS had created a DEAD ZONE option in their crappy joystick interface crapware. That is one of the main reasons people by default use the keypad on PC games and has ALWAYS been the reason (though the pricer joysticks have software corrections for any ZERO-POINT / Joystick at rest jitters so the gamer need not endure the WINDOWS crapware joystick interface.
Yeah, analog joysticks are cheap, but getting over WINDOWS & MICROSOFT-CRAPWARE is the bother for everyone.
He'd probably have Data come back to life after sacrificing himself for the crew. At least as it stands, there is some question about whether or not the android Data created in his own image is actually achieving a copy of Data's personality, but Spielberg would probably freeze them both and have them come back after everybody else dies like he did in A.I.
Lucas is where it's at. Episode 3 will blow 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6 away. He just needed to get used to CGI with a couple of warm-up episodes.
Uh, I hate to spoil it, but the hint in the MIB II preview of Nemesis is that Data brings his evil twin brother back. So there is a good chance only the copy gets blown-up.
And masturbation making you go blind, life at 60 will really bite the big one.
The lesson is point it away from your eyes when it shoots.
Oh my god. It's at this point I have to stop reading this horrible FUD..er FAQ. Disable DRM, and the DRM enabled functionality in DRM enabled apps will cease to work, the apps will continue to work. Sure, you can't open your ULTRA-7 security level report, that the NSA sent to you, but there's good reason for that. Turn back on the trust management, and then open that report. And what's with saying it's like switching from Windows to Linux? First, what the fook is wrong with Linux bitch? and second, that makes no sense!
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Oh goody, then when MONSANTO decides that once you try their Genetically Enhanced Food Products you can then continue (of your own free will) to try to survive when you can no longer digest non-MONSANTO non-Genetically-Modified-Food. Soon the world will have a whole collection of FrankenFood camps where the populations can only consume the products from that food line alone or face serious genetic defects and crippling illnesses. After all, we wouldn't want the Wage Slaves to free themselves from the Corporate Monarchy. That would reduce the population to independent and FREE civilians. The future looks damn bleak because we humans are far too cow-like in our outrage. Outrage is just another emotion to be dismissed by musical or video distraction.
Does this seem farfetched? Then why the FUCK are they trying to do this to our software? They certainly are making moves to our food supplies. Soon the absolute control of all members of the human species will be in the unyielding grip of a BEAST called the Corporate Monarchy. They of course will be small in number and complete in their control for all eternity. If any member of the Corporate Monarchy chooses to sabotage the BEAST from within, they also will fall under the wrath of the other 30 Corporate Monarchs. The BEAST will no longer be in the control, but a ransacking machine which milks its daily existence from those self-deluded Corporate Monarchs.
We already see the beginnings of the Police State which will keep the rabble under control. That is because the day which every person watches their neighbor is no longer a technical hurdle. The day when machines watch everyone at once will be rather rapid as well.
We are at the uncomfortable threshold of a social evolution in which all ideas are free and worldwide. Where everyone can become a publisher and celebrity instantly. Where the control is once again in the individual's grasp and the chance for worldwide sanity breaking out is very high. There is even the chance of the critical threshold of the necessary intellect for true worldwide glory. As the sunshine of ideas glows and the public consciousness can once again illuminate against the lightless ignorance we have a cabal of our species which will enact tolls, fees, extort, terrorize, murder, exploit, and stifle that light of ideas so that their own cowering worthlessness is not exposed. This revolution has happened before and will happen again in some other form.
First we began with the medium of charred sticks on cave walls, then clay tablets, then papyrus, then paper, then engraved printing, block type, photolithography, and now the digital revolution. All forms of written communication upon which the cost of information transfer has been reduced to near-free levels. Do not mistake my mindset for anti-corporate rabble-rousing (as corporations have a needed place in the world) because small business cannot meet the needs of the world alone. My main beef is with the mega-global-corporations that seek to treat humanity as cattle, or sheep, or pigs, or basically everything that would reduce them to slave status for only the desire to control their fellow humans forever. We already have ample proof of their Corporate crimes against humanity and sadly near universal American support for these crimes in exchange for cheap T-Shirts, overpriced NIKE (child slavery) shoes, and cheap electronics in Wal-Mart. We also love our cheap oil in exchange for the blood of the people in nations around the oil fields. Is it not sad and strange how America loves to embrace and enrich those Corporate Monarchs who would gladly enslave them outright in the near future? For everyone who thinks (32.6%) there are 32.31% who will gladly drink your blood and another 32.5% of the SHEEP-PEOPLE who will do nothing but pick their noses while the blood-thirsty 32.31% stab you in the gut repeatedly just to see you writhe just look at the election percents for a hint) with just 0.75% (less than 1% =
With all due respect, you're an idiot. The second a few big distributers get busted, the majority of distributers will cower under their beds. Would you be willing to share GBs of MP3s on your broadband connection if the other big guys around you were getting their systems confiscated and facing major fines they could lose their homes over? History has shown intimidation works well, and it will continue to work well. People just want their music; they don't care about fighting the man.
The second a regular individual goes to jail that will be the instant I BOYCOTT ALL RIAA MEDIA and that will be it. If they want to imprison their customers then they will not have any money in the future from me until I am happy that the RIAA is rotting in their own graves.
The main reason sales are down right now to near zero levels is the busting of Napster and other file-sharing sources. The RIAA method is going to have to end with the elimination of all television and radio - so there is no reason not to give them a taste of what happens when they bite Mommy America's Teat. Go ahead, RIAA and intimidate me and I will make it a cause to crap in your hand every chance I get.
To sum it up - BUST YOUR CUSTOMERS and we customers BOYCOTT YOU FOR LIFE. These are your rules RIAA, live with them at your own peril.
I'm not the only person that realizes that a klein bottle can't be made with lego? Or with anything that we know of...
klein bottles can't really be represented in three dimensions...
Um, (claps one hand against belly or other skin-coated surface) you must have overlooked these.
http://www.kleinbottle.com/
Although I cannot figure how as it is the first hit when I GOOGLE a [ Klein Bottle ] search. There is even a Klein Coffee cup! Now stop being silly and order one for goodness sake.
Well for starters cigarettes cost $7.50 a pack not because this is the price the free market has settled on but because of taxation by the city. Thus what the price of cigarettes is set at is hardly relevant.
Yes the drug addicts will pay any price *necessery* to aquire their drugs. However, drugs are the ultimate commodity item. An addict could give a fuck which brand name heroin he scores as long as it is heroin. Now from basic economics we see that in a competitive market the price of a commodity drops to the cost of production (yes in a monopoly it will be increased as high as the market will bear but a legal drug market will have plenty of competition). Take a look at the UK/netherlands plans to prescribe heroin to addicts...legal opiates (and certainly legal synthetic drugs like meth) are cheap as ass to produce. The rarity is caused by police enforcement not any essential high price of precursurs.
Maybe the mindset should be to push cigarette prices downward below a workable profit margin. Then the dealers can distribute as much as they want an never make a profit (shades of some internet websites business models).
Spam me, and you will never, ever, get my money
To enforce this, you have to read all your spam.
Not really, for webpage spam I just added their addresses to my HOSTS file. If you do a search in Windows for "Hosts" (no extension) and open that file with notepad you can now enter 127.0.0.1 ads.doubleclick.com (or any website you do not like). That will remove that ad server from your eyeballs forever. You have to save the HOSTS file with just "Save" and not "Save As..." or it will save it as HOSTS.TXT which won't do you any good.
You will still get the popups, but you will have no idea who they are from and their product will go unobserved (as is fitting I think).
Another fun thing is to go into your cookies folder and mangle cookies with Notepad from the worst abusers (Doubleclick) so as to screw up their servers.
As for email protection there is a Message Rules option in LOOKOUT EXPRESS which you can use to block messages by email keywords (the sponsor site or a phone number) or senders (using Block Sender).
If freon contains CFCs and eats up the ozone layer, what will MS Freon do?
Destroy all my linux distribution CDs?
Contain all of the suckiness of ULTIMATE TV boxes (which will be cannibalized for this project), the "Green/Blue Screen of Death" of ALL MICROSOFT CRAPWARE, the Megalomaniacal desires of the Uber-Spoiled-Rich-Boy-Nerd, a Fast-Forward "Commercial Skip" button which will be advertised to death until it is revoked in Version 2.00001 (one day after release) so Billy Gates can suck up more advertising dollars from obnoxious marketing drones, zero of the features promised working correctly, billions of lines of mega-patched (never rewritten) buggy spaghetti code, a ticket price of $500, a monthly user fee of $19.95 so you can actually use the crapware's "Program Guide" (failure to pay will result in disabling of all features until payment is received), and an internal (overpriced) cellphone so Gates can update your guide & spy on your viewing habits & disable people smart enough to hack out the MS-Crapware(TM)+ Report them to the BSA + DMCA goonsquad.
I figure a 33% sales rate nationwide as that was the percentage last election that was moronic enough to vote for a Drug-Addict Son-Of-A-Bush who's lifetime incompetence, corruption, and treason is sadly obvious to most every thinking American (except that hardcore moron-base of 33%).
Yes, I'm not a great sketcher (with or w/o computer).
I cannot draw anything like the two figures you posted. I stand by my original comment. Also, the car was by someone who was blind from birth and has no experience drawing or using the program (IC2D).
On the other hand, with force feedback being an option these days I'd think blind people would have some advantage drawing 3D shapes at the very least and being able to do some mostly decent 2D drawings if the stylus would "bump" over lines already drawn (there is already a mouse that can do force-feedback and is thusly a good choice of tools for blind-rendered art).
What could be a better gig than to infiltrate the government and then start shaving those pennies off the taxdollars. How much money do think is unaccounted for for the last year in the Federal Government? A million? Hundred million? Billion? How about around 100 billion. I'm just guessing about the mob thing, but what if it were true? Would you want the mob rewriting the constitution so it wouldn't get in their way? Would you? Does it have to be the stereotypical mob that you see on television? Does it even have to be the proper mob, or even have connections with the historical mob, if they are acting in the same ways? Do you realize that all the members of the significant corporate boards sit on each others tables? It's like a big family I guess. Enron, Global Crossing, Worldcom, etc. This is organized crime. And they've got the ear of lawmakers. Maybe they are some of the lawmakers. How long will the United States be able to maintain this level of corruption before things start to unravel? Well, since the Bush Fraud Mass-Murdering Criminal Family has taken over once again this has happened. Where is the 2.3 Trillion Dollars? By Max Emfinger5 71.html?noredir=1
Congresswoman McKinney has asked that we investigate whether the
reports by numerous mainstream press that we had been warned are true and why
they failed to help protect us. She has also asked why there is $2.3
trillion missing at the Pentagon as confirmed by Secretary Rumsfeld in
Congressional Testimony before the Armed Services Committee of which
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A General Accounting Office report in April said hundreds of
billions of dollars in the $1.2 trillion of Property, Plant and Equipment across
the federal government were not adequately supported by financial and/or
logistical records. The report also found that DoD has $5.2 billion in missing
inventory. The Pentagon claims that Selected Acquisition Reports can be used to
determine individual weapons costs, but Taxpayers For Common Sense said that the
acquisition reports are not auditable and other records that might yield total
weapons costs are completely inaccurate.
http://www.infowar.com/mil_c4i/mil_c4i_060898a_j.h tml-ssi
Of course, we can blame the accountants (Lockheed Martin), but
that wouldn't be fair to all of the other thieves. The Bush Fraud
Mass-Murdering Criminal Family has stolen TRILLIONS and America is
suffering the result.
If you add in the Soviet/Asian oil fields, the CIA attack on
the World Trade Centers to allow the Afghan Oil Pipeline, and China getting free
manufacturing tech from greedy and stupid American execs like Black & Decker
and Tyco then what happens if China closed its trade with us and grabbed the
untapped oil fields for themselves? Thank Wal-Mart folks. That is
the gateway for China's power-leverage against America.
www.almartinraw.com
pretty much has everything you'd need to know about the Bush Fraud
Mass-Murdering Criminal Family and then some.
Date: May 12, 2002 http://maxemfingerrecruiting.theinsiders.com/2/47
http://civic.net/civic-values.archive/200204/msg0
its a great site... I'm a subscriber, which is more than I can say for /.
Lets not forget the book reviews and highly pretentious soft core porn.
I used to be a subscriber too. I helped them out when they were in dire straits because they had insightful investigative journalism. Then they ran that hatchet-job slam on the fantastic Media Whore debunkers MediaWhoresOnline & Bartcop.com . If they were going to attack the honest side of online media they could have used a more competent ring-toothed whore than Jennifer Liberto and her "Rabid Watchdog" (more like rabid rightwing attack-whore).
Salon had some great stuff and they threw it all away to jump in bed with the fake-conservatives who will gladly stab them many times before crapping on their corpse. Court the whore and expect to rot from the crotch.
FORBES suits now reading slashdot [yahoo.com] for up to the minute technical information.
Behave yourselves trolls, you are "providing senior-level business readers with access to cutting-edge, high-tech content"
ROFLMAO I thought you were bullshitting me until I clicked the link. MOD THAT PARENT POST UP! Should we all give a collective shudder when www.goatse.cx hits the NASDAQ? I know I will.
There is no such thing as an "electron-beam laser." Lasers by definition emit photons, not electrons.
Anyway, any clean electron-beam process requires VACUUM, which increases cost and decreases throughput by at least one order of magnitude, often more.
Uh, you are aware they call it the electromagnetic spectrum? Electrons are really high-energy photons.
Obviously you wouldn't use a magnetic induction charger that you hung on your mouth. You'd use an induction coil under your pillow.
I don't know the health implications of having your head in an oscillating magnetic field for hours a day. Particularly when the rest of your body isn't in it so there can be current flow.
Ah, but there is the rub!
(Uses the jar of IcyHot... after doing cheap Shakespear joke)
They sold stoves like this. The induction coil would cause heat in any metal above the stovetop without releasing any heat. It would flip polarities rapidly and this would cause heat. The problem with this system is if you're wearing a ring or wristwatch and then... OUCH!
The problem with using such a strong magnetic field is in zapping the alarm clock people leave near their beds, their watches, their rings, their braces, their mercury fillings (which should be replaced with ceramic or polymer as the mercury leeches out and causes serious neurological and immune disorders at the least), their shiny gold teeth caps, piercings (which should be removed at bedtime), etc...
A magnetic induction charger would have to have a very strong localized field (like a harddrive write head) to avoid these side effects. Then we hit the issues of battery composition (leeching metals and the memory effect killing the battery) and ionic bleed-through (the active ions in the saliva along with the acids in food will cause inductance drains regardless of how well insulated the battery is).
Okay, enough of that... these concepts are great only when they're running off bioelectricity at the very least (perhaps a few thousand electric eel cells implanted in the jawline being genetically engineered to not cause immune issues) and batteries don't work well in such small scales. I have yet to see a plastic survive the human immune system unaltered by the trip. Ceramic is the only thing which has any hope of remaining functional for decades.
Anyhow onto the piezoelectric concept. It works if the battery drain is VERY low as people don't chew constantly and lots of people have overbites and underbites which means the upper and lower teeth only make contact during chewing. There isn't much energy to scavange there. Even with turning the mouth into an ionic battery (running an anode / cathode junction between jaw and the wisdom teeth - not under the tongue, but along the lip / jaw line) there will still be metal leeching which isn't good for any human in the long run. Sure there is plenty of acids and alkalines in the human mouth, but tapping them means there has to be waste metal ions going somewhere into the digestive tract and body fat stores.
Like I wrote. Nice concept in about another decade or so, just damn silly an useless right now (similar to using VR hand gesture recognition in a mobile workzone while going down the sidewalk). The social interaction issues alone are a big issue even with disregarding the very basic technical hurdles.
You could have it be a "dumb" device. It could communicate with the actual device a la Blue tooth and just act as a speaker and microphone.
Benefits to using it as a dumb device would include allowing audio communication with any device that communicates in that protocol (laptops, PDAs, cell phones, pagers, portable audio devices, or even cordless adapters to work with an existing device that has an existing stereo headphone or line-in/out jack.
While the article is low on details, I would guess that it would be possible to implant multiple devices that are tuned to the user's individul characteristics to provide high fidelity, stereo sound.
I hesitate at using any previously mentioned technology implanted in your body other than for medical reasons, but this sounds really cool. Depending on price (and the results of safety studies), I would sign up for this one.
One thing REALLY bugs me about this.
How do you charge the battery?
Seriously, the only easy way is a magnetic inductance charger. But then who wants to have a jaw recharger hanging from their lips for 3 hours or more? Contact charging is even worse with conductive saliva. It would be like having a 9-volt battery under your tongue all day. And how long can a battery that small hold a charge? Even if it just transmits to a signal booster on the belt a few feet away that will still suck down the juice on the battery constantly.
The concept is silly and pointless.
If we could have radioactive plutonium batteries that small it MIGHT work, but there is no room for adequate rad shielding in a tooth-sized area.
Seriously, I've already begun to have problems identifying insane people here, with all the hands-free phones. Since I live in New York there's actually a good chance that the guy you see talking to himself doesn't have a hands-free phone...
Ah, so should we give homeless people our non-working junk cell phones so they can retain a measure of dignity while they converse with the voices in their head? Fascinating concept.
I've seen both The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth at the local Best Buy.
Bought both at the evil Wally-World (Wal0Mart) for $15 each over the past few weeks.