"He really believed Nixon when he told him there was all that gold in the continental shelf."
I don't recall anything about gold, but the "official" cover story for the Glomar Explorer was deep ocean mining, and they even made at least one test run.
I still have a couple of deep sea photos showing the manganese nodules littering the ocean floor, and a small box of tennis ball sized manganese nodules recovered on that test run (they are soft like Ulexite/Borax, and turned my hands black when handled).
My late father was a principle designer on the H-MB "mining barge", and "Clementine", the huge claw made to pick up the Russian Golf class sub.
Every time our family drove past the H-MB on the 101 in Redwood City, he'd point it out to us, likely chuckling inside because if we only knew what it was really for...
After it was declassified, he eventually received a framed commendation from then President Regan, and a bronze medal.
If you want some more history, try to read "A Matter of Risk", it was the first book published after the covert operation was declassified, my father said it was fairly close to actual events.
"... and tend to eat whatever they smell other rats are eating".
So make sure to wash your hands after eating anything, and before handling anything you don't want to be chewed on.
I had a bunch of "stuff" in storage that kept getting chewed on by mice, and the damage was always small and random and it appeared that it was malicious behavior on the rodents part.
Not that I thought it was true, but I couldn't figure out why it wasn't actually eating anything, or at least taking it away for a nest.
It seemed totally random or so I thought at first, but observing the pattern of damage over the months (I won't use poisons), I figured out it was chewing everyplace my hands had held the object.
That's when I had the epiphany...
Almost every time I went to storage I had been eating food out of hand shortly before, and then not washing my hands afterward.
The big DOH! appeared and it was painfully obvious that the rodents were smelling good food, but after sampling some they realized it was a ruse, so to speak, and moved on to the next good smell to sample.
Wash your hands before handling anything you don't want a rodent to sample, and ruin.
I'm a retired electrical contractor, and if what you say is true, how does that explain the several times over the decades that I've seen 10 or 12 gauge romex wire chewed completely through by a rat (from the look of it's droppings).
All the "shavings" of insulation were in the wall space below where they fell haphazardly, and certainly not used for nesting material.
The really odd thing about these cases was that only the neutral conductor was chewed through, the ground and hot wire was left untouched.
Anyhow, I'll have to respectfully disagree with you on this one due to my first hand experience/evidence.
Actually I know a guy who rode his Triumph speed triple into a deer on his way to work at about 65 mph up near Garberville and the deer won (but was quite dead).
The bike was totaled and he spent 5 weeks in the hospital and is lucky to be alive.
So yeah, the Triumph Rocket 3 looks like it would be better for deer hunting, and surviving, eh?
BTW.. if you look at back issues of one of the motorcyclist magazines from five or six years ago, the Albion Ridge V-Max guy's story is in it, the Max was originally a magazine project bike, it's totally worth the read.
"Few people understand the impact of the common pigeon like your average motorcyclist."
Never hit bird, but rode through a herd of Bees once.
Well... it felt like a herd of 'em, they hurt, even through my leathers.
And that short Hail Storm I rode through up in the Santa Cruz Mtns, OUCH!.
There's a guy around here who rides a Yamaha V-Max, and he cut a deer in half one night that jumped out in front of him up Albion Ridge at about 60 MPH.
He survived fairly unscathed, fixed the bike, and I've seen him riding it since.
I'd say his deer trumps your pigeon for a Motorcyclists Sig, eh?
Actually, Smell-O-Vision exists already, and made its only appearance in the 1960 film Scent of Mystery. The process injected 30 different smells into a movie theater's seats when triggered by the film's soundtrack.
And director John Waters released a movie in 1981 called Polyester, with "Odorama", whereby viewers could smell what they saw on screen through scratch and sniff cards.
I saw/smelled it, and it was GROSS!
Be very glad that technology is still quite immature.
"I've been using CFLs for about 12 years now. I've had to replace them once in that time. Before that, I was replacing incandescents about every 3 months."
As an electrician I recommend that you check the true RMS voltage to your house, as higher than "normal" voltage will definitely shorten the life of incandescent bulbs.
I've serviced/installed hundreds of incandescent bulbs in my business and even the reeeeal cheap Polish bulbs lasted a year at worst, and a quality name brand bulb will last 5 to 7 years easy.
"...but I would suspect some issue with the local electrical grid if you've had such a high failure rate across multiple locations and brands..."
Not a chance, I'm an electrician and the first thing I do when I move into a "new" house is check the quality of the power.
When I moved in here three years ago I had annoying voltage fluctuations on one leg of my 220 volt service, and after checking everything on my side, called the power company.
The guy with the bucket truck found a loose/eroded connection at the pole and fixed it, no more problems.
I'd like to add that the older CFL's I purchased lasted longer than more recent ones.
Well, my experience/usage with/of CFL bulbs goes back to 1989 and in five different houses, using several different brands/price ranges of CFL's, and I can definitely tell you that they DO NOT last as long as a regular incandescent bulb.
No way, and your sample must be rather small to be touting such results, I'll wager that in five years you'll see what we're talking about, the advertised lifetime of CFL bulbs is a LIE.
I still use CFL's where I leave lights on for a long time, but I prefer quartz halogen spectrum lighting much better for reading and tasks like cooking.
Well... unless she's deep in the trees she CAN get Sat service through Wild Blue and another crappy provider.
And if she's just South of Hare Creek then she's on the edge of DSL so if she calls mcn a local isp, they will set up an account get her the modem and if it doesn't work, no charge.
Several of my friends have done this successfully on the "fringe" areas around town.
And it's AT&T's FAULT that DSL isn't available much outside the city limits, Fort Bragg is a NICE town, even if a bit behind the digital times because of that.
"Even child molesters have the right to not be beaten to a pulp. For one thing, the *alleged* child molester might be falsely-accused and completely innocent."
How true!
And I believe that false accusers should definitely be beaten to a pulp!
I stupidly married into the middle of a child custody battle, and was accused by the total asshole father several times over several years of molesting my step-son, and the "Child Protective Services" would swoop in unannounced and enter our house uninvited, and interrogate our whole family, freaking out my step-son, because he's sequestered in another room with two unknown adults being grilled about issues he had no idea about.
And not only was the child scared and confused, the CPS Monsters forbade us by law, to tell the child what all the commotion was all about.
I've since heard that estranged/divorced parents often pull this crap, and they should be prosecuted for it too!
And don't get me started on those CPS assholes... it has nothing to do with "the children".
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If that happens, it will propel Linux onto hundreds of thousands of desktops world wide!
Judging from all the "Free Tibet" bumper stickers I see around here.
Oh, wait ... this is Mendoland, forget it.
You know, I LOVE Canada 'n all, and my Grandpa was from Prince Edward Island, but colored ribbons on the antenna?
Apparently you're no Geek.
I suggest a small cycling multicolored LED, glued to a battery and rare earth magnet attached to one's antenna, as a way to show solidarity.
One could even make an inductive charger for it, so it could be removed at night, and recharged.
I just digitized all my old John Entwistle LP's, and have been enjoying him all over again after 30 years.
Yeah, he did turn me on to the Bass.
R.I.P. Ox.
Hey...
Thanks for the wiki links AM, last time I looked on line there wasn't anything around, but it was some time ago.
I also thought Project Jennifer was a weak book.
It was a fascinating covert op to say the least.
My father came to that via the Skunk Works, via SSD, they've never declassified what he worked on in those places, this op could be small potatoes.
"He really believed Nixon when he told him there was all that gold in the continental shelf."
I don't recall anything about gold, but the "official" cover story for the Glomar Explorer was deep ocean mining, and they even made at least one test run.
I still have a couple of deep sea photos showing the manganese nodules littering the ocean floor, and a small box of tennis ball sized manganese nodules recovered on that test run (they are soft like Ulexite/Borax, and turned my hands black when handled).
My late father was a principle designer on the H-MB "mining barge", and "Clementine", the huge claw made to pick up the Russian Golf class sub.
Every time our family drove past the H-MB on the 101 in Redwood City, he'd point it out to us, likely chuckling inside because if we only knew what it was really for ...
After it was declassified, he eventually received a framed commendation from then President Regan, and a bronze medal.
If you want some more history, try to read "A Matter of Risk", it was the first book published after the covert operation was declassified, my father said it was fairly close to actual events.
Wow, guess it's out of print: http://www.amazon.com/Matter-Risk-Incredible-Explorer-Submarine/dp/0394424328
They are Big Bangs "leaking" into our universe from another.
Like the one the bore our universe.
Betcha'.
I'd suggest that you forgo the Acacia polyacantha subsp. campylacantha since it contains the hallucinogen Dimethyltryptamine [DMT,l].
I'm pretty sure he doesn't want a bunch of rodents tripping their little rat minds out around the campus, eh?
"... and tend to eat whatever they smell other rats are eating".
So make sure to wash your hands after eating anything, and before handling anything you don't want to be chewed on.
I had a bunch of "stuff" in storage that kept getting chewed on by mice, and the damage was always small and random and it appeared that it was malicious behavior on the rodents part.
Not that I thought it was true, but I couldn't figure out why it wasn't actually eating anything, or at least taking it away for a nest.
It seemed totally random or so I thought at first, but observing the pattern of damage over the months (I won't use poisons), I figured out it was chewing everyplace my hands had held the object.
That's when I had the epiphany...
Almost every time I went to storage I had been eating food out of hand shortly before, and then not washing my hands afterward.
The big DOH! appeared and it was painfully obvious that the rodents were smelling good food, but after sampling some they realized it was a ruse, so to speak, and moved on to the next good smell to sample.
Wash your hands before handling anything you don't want a rodent to sample, and ruin.
"Rats and mice don't eat cables"
I'm a retired electrical contractor, and if what you say is true, how does that explain the several times over the decades that I've seen 10 or 12 gauge romex wire chewed completely through by a rat (from the look of it's droppings).
All the "shavings" of insulation were in the wall space below where they fell haphazardly, and certainly not used for nesting material.
The really odd thing about these cases was that only the neutral conductor was chewed through, the ground and hot wire was left untouched.
Anyhow, I'll have to respectfully disagree with you on this one due to my first hand experience/evidence.
Actually I know a guy who rode his Triumph speed triple into a deer on his way to work at about 65 mph up near Garberville and the deer won (but was quite dead).
The bike was totaled and he spent 5 weeks in the hospital and is lucky to be alive.
So yeah, the Triumph Rocket 3 looks like it would be better for deer hunting, and surviving, eh?
BTW.. if you look at back issues of one of the motorcyclist magazines from five or six years ago, the Albion Ridge V-Max guy's story is in it, the Max was originally a magazine project bike, it's totally worth the read.
"Few people understand the impact of the common pigeon like your average motorcyclist."
Never hit bird, but rode through a herd of Bees once.
Well... it felt like a herd of 'em, they hurt, even through my leathers.
And that short Hail Storm I rode through up in the Santa Cruz Mtns, OUCH!.
There's a guy around here who rides a Yamaha V-Max, and he cut a deer in half one night that jumped out in front of him up Albion Ridge at about 60 MPH.
He survived fairly unscathed, fixed the bike, and I've seen him riding it since.
I'd say his deer trumps your pigeon for a Motorcyclists Sig, eh?
Keep the rubber side down bro.
So sorry, my html is really rusty and I munged up the links.
Smell-O-Vision
Polyester
Actually, Smell-O-Vision exists already, and made its only appearance in the 1960 film Scent of Mystery. The process injected 30 different smells into a movie theater's seats when triggered by the film's soundtrack.
And director John Waters released a movie in 1981 called Polyester, with "Odorama", whereby viewers could smell what they saw on screen through scratch and sniff cards.
I saw/smelled it, and it was GROSS!
Be very glad that technology is still quite immature.
"I've been using CFLs for about 12 years now. I've had to replace them once in that time. Before that, I was replacing incandescents about every 3 months."
As an electrician I recommend that you check the true RMS voltage to your house, as higher than "normal" voltage will definitely shorten the life of incandescent bulbs.
I've serviced/installed hundreds of incandescent bulbs in my business and even the reeeeal cheap Polish bulbs lasted a year at worst, and a quality name brand bulb will last 5 to 7 years easy.
"...but I would suspect some issue with the local electrical grid if you've had such a high failure rate across multiple locations and brands..."
Not a chance, I'm an electrician and the first thing I do when I move into a "new" house is check the quality of the power.
When I moved in here three years ago I had annoying voltage fluctuations on one leg of my 220 volt service, and after checking everything on my side, called the power company.
The guy with the bucket truck found a loose/eroded connection at the pole and fixed it, no more problems.
I'd like to add that the older CFL's I purchased lasted longer than more recent ones.
Well, my experience/usage with/of CFL bulbs goes back to 1989 and in five different houses, using several different brands/price ranges of CFL's, and I can definitely tell you that they DO NOT last as long as a regular incandescent bulb.
No way, and your sample must be rather small to be touting such results, I'll wager that in five years you'll see what we're talking about, the advertised lifetime of CFL bulbs is a LIE.
I still use CFL's where I leave lights on for a long time, but I prefer quartz halogen spectrum lighting much better for reading and tasks like cooking.
So sorry, I'm a bit late to the Party.
Have the Piss-on jokes started yet?
Well... unless she's deep in the trees she CAN get Sat service through Wild Blue and another crappy provider.
And if she's just South of Hare Creek then she's on the edge of DSL so if she calls mcn a local isp, they will set up an account get her the modem and if it doesn't work, no charge.
Several of my friends have done this successfully on the "fringe" areas around town.
And it's AT&T's FAULT that DSL isn't available much outside the city limits, Fort Bragg is a NICE town, even if a bit behind the digital times because of that.
"I got dry-loop DSL through AT&T."
Lucky you!
Perhaps you live in a big city, because here in Fort Bragg, CA, AT&T refused to give me a dry pair for anything (DSL or alarm, etc.).
Last night, I was working with an old sys admin and he loves AIX for backend work, and feels that linux has too much a "collegiate feel" to it.
He mentioned that any "experienced" AIX folks would know what this is: "When in trouble scream and shout, wave your arms and run about".
Apparently it's a "hangs on boot", "error" message.
And that past experience is nothing...
Pity I couldn't find an attorney to document the conspiracy against my now former wife, by her attorney, her ex's attorney's and the judge.
She had a slam dunk child custody case, and they saveged her to the point of nervous breakdown.
It's a long story to do with a previous ex-parte hearing that the county judge screwed up on.
They ALL should be disbarred and in prison for that, but they are free, and fucking over people to this day.
Welcome to Mendoland where Justice is an empty word.
Oh... you actually believe that the law is in force in America?
Hearsay seemed to work for him on three occasions.
No judge, no search warrant.
Move to Mendocino County, CA and find out how wrong you really are.
You're not thinking of the children.
"Even child molesters have the right to not be beaten to a pulp. For one thing, the *alleged* child molester might be falsely-accused and completely innocent."
How true!
And I believe that false accusers should definitely be beaten to a pulp!
I stupidly married into the middle of a child custody battle, and was accused by the total asshole father several times over several years of molesting my step-son, and the "Child Protective Services" would swoop in unannounced and enter our house uninvited, and interrogate our whole family, freaking out my step-son, because he's sequestered in another room with two unknown adults being grilled about issues he had no idea about.
And not only was the child scared and confused, the CPS Monsters forbade us by law, to tell the child what all the commotion was all about.
I've since heard that estranged/divorced parents often pull this crap, and they should be prosecuted for it too!
And don't get me started on those CPS assholes... it has nothing to do with "the children".
Crikey... you need to get out and do some backpacking in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
I've hiked around there for over 30 years, and Fosset's wrecked plane is somewhere up wind of the found items.
The article says the items were found in brush (where the wind likely blew them).
Things can blow for miles down some of those canyons.
It shouldn't be too difficult to find the wreckage with this new information.
"64,000 writes is quite a low figure compared to other flash memory specs I've seen, but it should be years before it fails."
Yes... it did take years, but 64k writes is tiny, so it seems like a potential problem to me.
And it happened to both of my SONY cards so it's not an isolated incident.
Perhaps my real world testing trumps lab testing, for real world results?