Get one a few sizes bigger than your laptop, get some of that dense gray foam, cut out spaces for your laptop and accessories - voila, instant tanklike, professional looking hard case that you can throw down stairs, tap-dance on, drop off boats, etc etc. Not exactly convenient, or terribly cheap, but very robust; if you're more abusive than that, you can even get aluminum cases you can drive cars over. Disclaimer - I don't own a laptop, but we used this exact setup for the laptops on the oceanography boats at college and never had so much as a key break.
The "iTunes-LAME Encoder" works great. It's on VersionTracker. That's one of the nice things about iTunes - pretty much everything but the actual player can be tweaked with plugins or libraries. I agree Apple zealots [disclaimer: I own a G4] can have quite an agenda, but please educate yourself on a product before you bash it; iTunes really is that good.
See it before *yawns*. Yup, all those actions would be highly illegal had Congress declared war on Iraq. They didn't. It's a nifty end-run around all those pesky "rules" and "laws", makes the Geneva Conventions rather murky, and is a major reason we haven't formally declared war since WWII. The rather nebulous charge of "crimes against humanity" (invented at Nuremburg, a classic case of the victors dictating the terms) could still apply, but blatant War Crimes charges would be difficult to prosecute.
It's certainly not ~3000 people, but you're just point-blank WRONG. The 1993 bombing killed six people, and was a foriegn act of terror. I'm rather suprised you missed that.
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You forget that "the number one terrorist state" you hate so much happens to be sittng on 7,339 nuclear warheads with a total yield of over two thousand eight hundred megatons. I'm guessing you're hoping and praying for a crude nuclear strike on NYC - you and your friends try that, and I assure you everything between Israel and India, from Egypt to Turkey, will be vaporized. You obviously understand the strength of violence, so why do you promote the use of it against a nation that has both the means and the determination to retaliate a hundred times over? Oderint dum metuant.
What pray tell makes a crime criminal, other than the breaking of a law? If there isn't a law against an action, commiting that action ISN'T a crime. It might be morally reprehensible, but it's hardly illegal. You might want to look into taking Logic 101 at your local community college - then you won't make blatheringly idiotic statements like that.
...so there's no explicit ban on attacking retreating enemy units. Morally very cloudy, yes, but IIRC since it was just a 'military action' we had a loophole on that one.
If this invasion was all about oil as you postulate, why am I still paying $1.89 a gallon? Why don't we just kill 'em all so I can get my Formula 94 for free?
I used a few (~5) rolls of Kodak Tech Pan 25 for my final assignments in photo class...wow. Developing was a pain in the ass (and expensive, Technidol and two blown rolls aren't cheap), but the results were totally off the charts. Like...I couldn't use a grain focuser, even with the enlarger all the way up, because there was no perceptible grain. I got my hands on an extra-high enlarger (67xld IIRC) and printed up a couple of 8x10s that covered maybe 1/8 of the 35mm negative...still no grain. I hear you can make poster-sized (5') blowups from a full frame of TP that show about as much grain as an 8x10 from Delta 100...is digital anywhere near this level yet, at any price point?
Their fatal accident rate is something like 40% lower than ours (too lazy to ref, deal with it), even though they have no speed limits on their highways. Also unlike the US, they know how to drive; "driving right" is seriously enforced - failure to yield = loss of license.
I've seen a few posts pointing out they probably don't have avgas, and a few pointing out that he probably used moto-gas in his aircrat, but nobody seems to have mentioned that they simply might not have any gas to spare. what with the hideous costs associated with shipping anything down there, it wouldn't suprise me if they figure out their seasonal fuel consumption to the liter, and then put up stores accordingly. YES - i'm sure they have a reserve, and probably enough of a reserve to get this guy home...but I don't expect them to welch on their safety to bail this id-10-T out. Let him cool his heels (no pun intended) in the storage shed and pay for his own damn shipment of gas, then send him a bill for food and heating costs once he gets home =D
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Yeah, I posted before I even read the comments, let alone TFA. Ahh, but what would slashdot be without dupes?
treble - adj. 1. Triple: "treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day" (George Eliot). 2. Music. Relating to or having the highest part, voice, or range. 3. High-pitched; shrill.
Good god boy, one would almost think you ain't never been fishing! (If you actually haven't...well, I truly pity you. But anyway, a triple-hooked fishook is called a "treble hook".)
Heatherington is definitely an uber-geek extraordinare, but the whole second-grade-teacher thing, purely for the goodness of it, still puts Steve Wozniak at the top of the all-time greatest h4x0r list ever.
Seriously...how many of you would teach little kids for the sheer joy of it if you were affluent enough to really not work, and skilled enough to find a much more lucrative job if you did need one?
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The Discovery Science Channel (170 on iO digital, Cablevision) still plays Connections rather a lot, sometimes for marathons. It's a great way to spend a late night on the couch with whatever supplies you see fit;D
..after all the long chats with my parents and "DO NOT PICK UP!" post-its failed. Nothing like 4 or 5 wraps on an old-school block of a phone to keep that handset down =D
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Crazy idea -/. incorporates, with all current users listed as directors, and all our personal info goes in a giant DB. Now, when any other corp. uses our name/address/telephone no./email/DOB/hair color/eye color/etc, we can just sue the living daylights out of them! Or maybe incorporate with your family, or your roommates, or whatever...the sky's the limit! Screw the DNC list, you can get TRIPLE damages for those annoying telemarketing calls...and just IMAGINE what we can do to spammers!
Well...it is sort of guiltily entertaining to press your buttons...i should apologize though, it's not nice to exaggerate my amorality soley to whip up people's emotions.
I slogged through Kant in high school, and I still prefer James.:P I don't accept that the world as is is good enough, nor that I am powerless to change it, but I'm not a terribly selfless person by nature - I don't believe that the ends justify the means, but at the same time, I do put me and mine first, ahead of any greater moral or ethical issues. And that does involve shopping at Wal-Mart...hell, most of the ethical issues surounding that can of worms deal with the product manufacturers, and Wal-Mart isn't the exclusive distributor for most of those products. Much better to pressure the manufacturers directly, which I do with letters and such. Weak, true, but it is *some* effort.
ahh, a little civility in this whole debate - thank you sir, you're a rare breed...apology accepted, and let me apologize for being snippy with my reply.
I'm not a huge fan of totally unrestricted immigration though; I hate to raise the specter/strawman of terrorism, but I do get a very uneasy feeling at the concept of letting anybody waltz into the DMV and get a license without having to even prove legal status - IMHO, that's a security hole big enough to drive a nuke-bearing truck through.
Actually there's evidence that the Waites were here pre-Mayflower, but I shan't harp on that. My father's side of the family came from Poland in the Teens, legally through Ellis Island.
I never said I was opposed to immigration, far from it; believe me, I know this country was and still is being built on the backs of immigrants - but I'd rather not see them treated like slave labor. One of the best examples is their safety - I live on Long Island, where there's a HUGE population of illegal Mexicans used as day laborers. One of the biggest reasons contractors hire them isn't the low low pay, but rather the fact that the contractor can flagrantly violate every OSHA standard at the jobsite, and when one of the laborers is maimed or killed, the GC can simply dump them in the appropriate place (ER front door, Moriches Bay, etc.) and go pick up a new one on the corner the next morning, with no annoying government inspectors swarming the job site. Basically, they're commodities rather than humans. Even more so to they coyotes out West; don't even get me started on the horrors of human smuggling and the rapaciousness of those that charge $3000 a head to sneak Mexicans into the hellish work environs in the US.
Legal immigration is a whole different ballgame. I think it's currently way too difficult to get in above board and get all your work permits and visas; I wholeheartedly support the creation of a "manual labor" class of visa that would be very easy to get and would entitle the day laborers to basic health, safety and wage guidelines, as well as taxing them at a lower rate, for basic health and human services (but no SS or other long-term benefits).
Now...where did I say that immigration is bad in my previous posts? I said ILLEGAL immigration is a Bad Thing, which it is - it endangers the immigrants and bleeds much-needed tax money out of the government. I'm all for the enrichment of the US by people from around the world, I just want them to play by some sort of rules and be accounted for. Of course, those escaping for political reasons should bloody likely be granted asylum, and then given proper paperwork as outlined above. God. When did the world turn so black and white, to where opposing illegal entry==racism?
I'm neither conservative or a Wal-Mart lover; the parent was Wal-Mart bashing with patently untrue statements, the hallmark of a liberal Wal-Mart basher. W-M does a lot of very shady things, but the illegals simply weren't hired by them, and had very little to do with W-M proper.
What's wrong with the law declaring people who entered the country illegaly being declared illegal? The abuse of said people by companies is a whole different issue, but saying the law is to blame because it denies these people legal worker status is bleeding-heart liberalism of the worst kind.
Junior, hah. Granted, I'm only a year older, but I did get a free roof from 16-18, so I guess I was a spoiled brat. I "abuse capitalism" myself - I buy at the *lowest price available*, period, and there's no I'm going to spend more on purely moral grounds (and I personally think you're a self-serving jackass for doing such). Costco, Wal-Mart, Stop&Shop, you name the global Conglom-O, I'm probably a patron. Funny thing though, by being an amoral, worker-crushing capitalist pig, I get to spend a very nice three weeks a year mincing around Europe like the bourgeois bastard I cheerily admit to being. Oh, and on top of all this i put away about 20% of my pay. FYI, my takehome pay is a little over 800/week.
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Get one a few sizes bigger than your laptop, get some of that dense gray foam, cut out spaces for your laptop and accessories - voila, instant tanklike, professional looking hard case that you can throw down stairs, tap-dance on, drop off boats, etc etc. Not exactly convenient, or terribly cheap, but very robust; if you're more abusive than that, you can even get aluminum cases you can drive cars over. Disclaimer - I don't own a laptop, but we used this exact setup for the laptops on the oceanography boats at college and never had so much as a key break.
The "iTunes-LAME Encoder" works great. It's on VersionTracker. That's one of the nice things about iTunes - pretty much everything but the actual player can be tweaked with plugins or libraries. I agree Apple zealots [disclaimer: I own a G4] can have quite an agenda, but please educate yourself on a product before you bash it; iTunes really is that good.
See it before *yawns*. Yup, all those actions would be highly illegal had Congress declared war on Iraq. They didn't. It's a nifty end-run around all those pesky "rules" and "laws", makes the Geneva Conventions rather murky, and is a major reason we haven't formally declared war since WWII.
The rather nebulous charge of "crimes against humanity" (invented at Nuremburg, a classic case of the victors dictating the terms) could still apply, but blatant War Crimes charges would be difficult to prosecute.
It's certainly not ~3000 people, but you're just point-blank WRONG. The 1993 bombing killed six people, and was a foriegn act of terror. I'm rather suprised you missed that.
You forget that "the number one terrorist state" you hate so much happens to be sittng on 7,339 nuclear warheads with a total yield of over two thousand eight hundred megatons. I'm guessing you're hoping and praying for a crude nuclear strike on NYC - you and your friends try that, and I assure you everything between Israel and India, from Egypt to Turkey, will be vaporized. You obviously understand the strength of violence, so why do you promote the use of it against a nation that has both the means and the determination to retaliate a hundred times over? Oderint dum metuant.
What pray tell makes a crime criminal, other than the breaking of a law? If there isn't a law against an action, commiting that action ISN'T a crime. It might be morally reprehensible, but it's hardly illegal. You might want to look into taking Logic 101 at your local community college - then you won't make blatheringly idiotic statements like that.
...so there's no explicit ban on attacking retreating enemy units. Morally very cloudy, yes, but IIRC since it was just a 'military action' we had a loophole on that one.
If this invasion was all about oil as you postulate, why am I still paying $1.89 a gallon? Why don't we just kill 'em all so I can get my Formula 94 for free?
I used a few (~5) rolls of Kodak Tech Pan 25 for my final assignments in photo class...wow. Developing was a pain in the ass (and expensive, Technidol and two blown rolls aren't cheap), but the results were totally off the charts. Like...I couldn't use a grain focuser, even with the enlarger all the way up, because there was no perceptible grain. I got my hands on an extra-high enlarger (67xld IIRC) and printed up a couple of 8x10s that covered maybe 1/8 of the 35mm negative...still no grain. I hear you can make poster-sized (5') blowups from a full frame of TP that show about as much grain as an 8x10 from Delta 100...is digital anywhere near this level yet, at any price point?
Their fatal accident rate is something like 40% lower than ours (too lazy to ref, deal with it), even though they have no speed limits on their highways. Also unlike the US, they know how to drive; "driving right" is seriously enforced - failure to yield = loss of license.
I've seen a few posts pointing out they probably don't have avgas, and a few pointing out that he probably used moto-gas in his aircrat, but nobody seems to have mentioned that they simply might not have any gas to spare. what with the hideous costs associated with shipping anything down there, it wouldn't suprise me if they figure out their seasonal fuel consumption to the liter, and then put up stores accordingly. YES - i'm sure they have a reserve, and probably enough of a reserve to get this guy home...but I don't expect them to welch on their safety to bail this id-10-T out. Let him cool his heels (no pun intended) in the storage shed and pay for his own damn shipment of gas, then send him a bill for food and heating costs once he gets home =D
Yeah, I posted before I even read the comments, let alone TFA. Ahh, but what would slashdot be without dupes?
treble - adj.
1. Triple: "treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day" (George Eliot).
2. Music. Relating to or having the highest part, voice, or range.
3. High-pitched; shrill.
Good god boy, one would almost think you ain't never been fishing! (If you actually haven't...well, I truly pity you. But anyway, a triple-hooked fishook is called a "treble hook".)
Heatherington is definitely an uber-geek extraordinare, but the whole second-grade-teacher thing, purely for the goodness of it, still puts Steve Wozniak at the top of the all-time greatest h4x0r list ever.
Seriously...how many of you would teach little kids for the sheer joy of it if you were affluent enough to really not work, and skilled enough to find a much more lucrative job if you did need one?
The Discovery Science Channel (170 on iO digital, Cablevision) still plays Connections rather a lot, sometimes for marathons. It's a great way to spend a late night on the couch with whatever supplies you see fit ;D
..after all the long chats with my parents and "DO NOT PICK UP!" post-its failed. Nothing like 4 or 5 wraps on an old-school block of a phone to keep that handset down =D
Crazy idea - /. incorporates, with all current users listed as directors, and all our personal info goes in a giant DB. Now, when any other corp. uses our name/address/telephone no./email/DOB/hair color/eye color/etc, we can just sue the living daylights out of them! Or maybe incorporate with your family, or your roommates, or whatever...the sky's the limit! Screw the DNC list, you can get TRIPLE damages for those annoying telemarketing calls...and just IMAGINE what we can do to spammers!
Ah, no worries, broadband is a beautuful thing sometimes.
Well...it is sort of guiltily entertaining to press your buttons...i should apologize though, it's not nice to exaggerate my amorality soley to whip up people's emotions.
:P I don't accept that the world as is is good enough, nor that I am powerless to change it, but I'm not a terribly selfless person by nature - I don't believe that the ends justify the means, but at the same time, I do put me and mine first, ahead of any greater moral or ethical issues. And that does involve shopping at Wal-Mart...hell, most of the ethical issues surounding that can of worms deal with the product manufacturers, and Wal-Mart isn't the exclusive distributor for most of those products. Much better to pressure the manufacturers directly, which I do with letters and such. Weak, true, but it is *some* effort.
I slogged through Kant in high school, and I still prefer James.
ahh, a little civility in this whole debate - thank you sir, you're a rare breed...apology accepted, and let me apologize for being snippy with my reply.
I'm not a huge fan of totally unrestricted immigration though; I hate to raise the specter/strawman of terrorism, but I do get a very uneasy feeling at the concept of letting anybody waltz into the DMV and get a license without having to even prove legal status - IMHO, that's a security hole big enough to drive a nuke-bearing truck through.
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You forgot "blindly idealistic"
Actually there's evidence that the Waites were here pre-Mayflower, but I shan't harp on that. My father's side of the family came from Poland in the Teens, legally through Ellis Island.
I never said I was opposed to immigration, far from it; believe me, I know this country was and still is being built on the backs of immigrants - but I'd rather not see them treated like slave labor. One of the best examples is their safety - I live on Long Island, where there's a HUGE population of illegal Mexicans used as day laborers. One of the biggest reasons contractors hire them isn't the low low pay, but rather the fact that the contractor can flagrantly violate every OSHA standard at the jobsite, and when one of the laborers is maimed or killed, the GC can simply dump them in the appropriate place (ER front door, Moriches Bay, etc.) and go pick up a new one on the corner the next morning, with no annoying government inspectors swarming the job site. Basically, they're commodities rather than humans. Even more so to they coyotes out West; don't even get me started on the horrors of human smuggling and the rapaciousness of those that charge $3000 a head to sneak Mexicans into the hellish work environs in the US.
Legal immigration is a whole different ballgame. I think it's currently way too difficult to get in above board and get all your work permits and visas; I wholeheartedly support the creation of a "manual labor" class of visa that would be very easy to get and would entitle the day laborers to basic health, safety and wage guidelines, as well as taxing them at a lower rate, for basic health and human services (but no SS or other long-term benefits).
Now...where did I say that immigration is bad in my previous posts? I said ILLEGAL immigration is a Bad Thing, which it is - it endangers the immigrants and bleeds much-needed tax money out of the government. I'm all for the enrichment of the US by people from around the world, I just want them to play by some sort of rules and be accounted for. Of course, those escaping for political reasons should bloody likely be granted asylum, and then given proper paperwork as outlined above. God. When did the world turn so black and white, to where opposing illegal entry==racism?
I don't think the word "disgusting" begins to cover your attitude.
Aw, how flattering...I prefer "utterly amoral" myself though, "coldly pragmatic" if you're being very nice =)
I'm neither conservative or a Wal-Mart lover; the parent was Wal-Mart bashing with patently untrue statements, the hallmark of a liberal Wal-Mart basher. W-M does a lot of very shady things, but the illegals simply weren't hired by them, and had very little to do with W-M proper.
What's wrong with the law declaring people who entered the country illegaly being declared illegal? The abuse of said people by companies is a whole different issue, but saying the law is to blame because it denies these people legal worker status is bleeding-heart liberalism of the worst kind.
Junior, hah. Granted, I'm only a year older, but I did get a free roof from 16-18, so I guess I was a spoiled brat. I "abuse capitalism" myself - I buy at the *lowest price available*, period, and there's no I'm going to spend more on purely moral grounds (and I personally think you're a self-serving jackass for doing such). Costco, Wal-Mart, Stop&Shop, you name the global Conglom-O, I'm probably a patron. Funny thing though, by being an amoral, worker-crushing capitalist pig, I get to spend a very nice three weeks a year mincing around Europe like the bourgeois bastard I cheerily admit to being. Oh, and on top of all this i put away about 20% of my pay. FYI, my takehome pay is a little over 800/week.