One example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... There is about a 230,000 pound difference in takeoff weight and landing weight. Aircraft of this sort would have some means of dumping fuel if necessary, there are FAA regs covering this case. Of course, in the case of a true emergency, you do what you need to do to get the plane on the ground.
As a (student) pilot, I'm immensely interested in alternative power plants for aircraft. AvGas is not cheap. Solar may not get you 100% of the way there, especially for instrument conditions, but it could offer a boost to a battery operated system. Obviously, like with electric cars, energy density and recharge time continue to provide significant hurdles. There are a few examples of small, limited range, general aviation type aircraft cropping up already, and I expect that progress will continue to be made on this front.
I am not saying that we NEED to use fossil fuels, those are just the current popular energy source. There are several other possible energy sources, they are just not as mature or viable, or people are too scared of them, for them to be main stream yet. Energy is required to produce the goods and services which we exchange. Energy is required to build anything and everything. The computer you are using required a very significant amount of energy to build, and even more to run.
As for limiting population, the solution to that problem is spreading to the stars. If there is not enough space or resources on this planet, then the time has come to find a way to spread to another one.
Unfortunately, a growing economy, requires an ever increasing energy supply. I am not against being more efficient, but the simple fact is that as the world's economy grows, the world, and all of its people, will require more energy. There certainly is no reason that it has to come from one source. For now, we depend pretty heavily on petroleum, and derived products for out energy. 100 years ago we relied almost totally on coal, in time, we will find another viable, cleaner, more abundant, energy source. That may be fusion, wind, hydrogen, or something we haven't even thought of yet.
We will always use energy, and our demand will continue to grow. That is part of life. Should we intentionally squander what we have? Of course not, but the way the world runs, we will continue to need more and more.
First, lets alter genetics to eliminate the source of greed that drives everyone to fuck with everything they can. Maybe I'm the only one, but sometimes I think things are getting out of hand.
Yes, and at the same time we will eliminate our ability to progress scientifically. Innovation, invention, and discovery are driven by our own innate laziness and greed. People desire to create things that make their lives easier (laziness), provide them with money or fame (greed). If you eliminate greed, you have taken away a large portion of our desire to increase our scientific knowledge, and our understanding of the universe.
Also, the desire to profit, and to maximize profits, are not evil in and of themselves. The desire for profits is what drives economies, and gives people jobs. Without greed and profits we would still be living in mud huts or caves, and scrounging for our food. Sure, some people take it too far, but eliminating it would send us right back to the dark ages.
The way I look at, I am going to have a couple of beers per week any, so it is nice to know that there are some healthy side effects. I consider the drinking of beer to be a hobby. I drive all over looking for new varieties of beer to try.
At any rate, it is nice to be able to say to my wife that one beer a day is good for me:)
Just because something is in a contract does not mean it is enforcable. If you sign a lease contract for an apartment that states you are not allowed to install a DirectTV dish, it is unenforcable. It is not possible for a landlord to prevent you from installing a DirectTV dish via a rental contract
I suppose you could install a dish inside of your apartment, regardless of what the landlord said, but the owner of the building should have the final say in regards to attaching the dish to the outside of the building. It is, after all, his/her property, and renting an apartment in the building does not give you the right to modify the outside of the building in any way. Nor does it give you the right modify or alter the interior of the apartment.
As for using a WAP, if you live in housing provided by the college, they make the rules. They can certainly say what is allowed ot be connected to their network, and they can limit or regulate the devices used on their property. They can ban the use of a specific class of device, such as a hotplate, toaster, or microwave oven. They can ban using a WAP. They are not necessarily regulating the spectrum, they are just saying that you can't use that specific type of device.
If the rule was, "Students may not use any devices which transmits in the XXXHz to YYYHz range," things might be different. It comes down to property rights, the college owns the land and the buildings. It is well within their rights to regulate activities on that land.
Imagine you own a home and someone comes over. They are within their First Amendment rights to say what ever they want, but that doesn't mean you have to put up with it. It's your house, you can tell them to leave, and not come back. The same applies to a university.
Put another way, does a university have a right to regulate smoking in its buildings and dorms? Smoking is perfectly legal, assuming you are 18, but yet many places ban smoking in dorms. Some also ban drinking.
You have some very good points. I hae never driven or taken a ride in a Prius, I have played around some with an Insight, which is what I based most of my observations on. Obviously, I was mistaken to assume that the Insight was representative of the Hybrid market.
I still have no interest in actually buying a hybrid for my own use. I don't feel that they offer the performance that I like in a car. Other people have commented that the Prius is way under powered.
While these cars a obviously a good option for some people, I still think that they need to do several things before they are ready for main stream use by everyone. The biggest issue for me is the price. It needs to come down as they don't save enough gas to justify the extra money that you need to spend on one.
I am happy that the car works for you, and perhaps some day, it will be right for me and my family. I am sure that I will always have my gasoline powered cars as I am a bit of a gear head, and I enjoy tinkering with them, but once some other technology reaches the point where it is as cheap and reliable as the ICE, I am sure I will have some of those.
Thanks again for pointing out some interested facts abotu the Prius. I was obviously mistaken on a few points.
Being an LEV/SULEV is not that big of a deal. My 2002 Trans Am, which when combined with my driving style, gets about 15/27 on a good day, far less if the sun is out and the t-tops are off, is considered an LEV, and borders on being an SULEV.
The batteries is a hybrid have nothing to do with lower emissions, that is all managed by computerized engine controls and catalytic converters.
Any car with a proper combination of engine controls and exhaust set up can easily qualify as an LEV, regardless of the gas mileage that they get. It is mearly a measure of the make up of the exhaust gases, typically so many parts per million of certain polutants compared to the total output, which is mostly water vapor and carbon dioxide.
While I follow the development of hybrid and alternative fuel vehicles, they have a long way to go before they are ready for main stream use. The current hybrids are too small to be useful for anything more than driving to work. They are not terribly strong and I would not want to be in one if it was ever in an accident. Plus, what sort of environmental impact are these vehicles going to have in a junkyard in ten years with all of the highly toxic batteries, and how much pollution came about as a result of making the batteries. It may not be much as compared to the millions of typical car batteries currently rotting in junk yards around the world, but it just may be enough to bridge the gap between the hybrids and normal cars.
As for other alternative fuels, E85 (ethanol) is very promising, and once it becomes mass-produced, the costs should go down, until we have a drought in the Midwest. Then we are going to have high demand for those crops for food and fuel. Hydrogen is not terribly practical other than used in fuel cells for an electric car, and there are problems with storage of the hydrogen.
For now, give me a modern gasoline engine, on a modern car. Until the other technologies are more mature, they are not much of an option, at least for me.
My appologies, I was not aware that the Porsche was air-cooled. I do know that temperature control is far easier to achieve in a water cooled engine.
As for the hummer, I always think of the original, I do not like the H2 at all.
I do not necessarily believe that newer is always better. I know it is possible to tune a carburator to run as clean as modern EFI systems, its just harder.
As for the Bug, it will pollute more, or at least it will spew things that are worse, than the hummer because it lacks a catalytic converter to remove the CO and NOx from the exhaust.
As for comparing 2- and 4-stroke engines, people tend to think that 2-stroke is not as clean because in a typical 2-stroke you burn a lot of oil as well, but people neglect to consider the fact that all 4-strokes burn oil as well. In fact most auto manufacturers consider one quart of oil per 1000 miles to be perfectly fine. Besides, a 2-stroke is more efficient in terms of power output as you generate power with every stroke.
When ever I think of a Hummer, I still picture the original, and in fact I would love to get my hands on one. I find the H2 to be a repulsive POS. I would never buy one.
Speaking specifically abotu the old VW Bugs, they used an air cooled engine with absolutely no emissions controls. It is not really feasible with an air cooled engine to control the operating temperature precisely enough to prevent the formation of the more hazardous polutants, specifically the various oxides of nitrogen, which are a big contributing factor to acid rain. These compounds form more readily at higher combustion temperatures. We deal with them today by limiting the combustion temp through the use of an EGR valve, and by adjusting water flow through the engine. Along with temerature control, all exhaust fumes are passed through a catalytic converter, which converts CO and NOx compounds in to more friendly things.
Given that a modern Hummer has all of these polution control features which an old VW Bug can never have, the Hummer is a much cleaner vehicle. Now that is not to say that it the cleanest one out there, but almost anything is cleaner than an old Bug. Not to mention that the Hummer is a far safer vehicle in which to travel, which certainly makes my interest in one go up.
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I prefer good old MP3 or OGG streaming like the feeds offered at WCPE but I'm sure no 'serious' company would consider it because they don't have their digital rights preserved.
Actually, some radio stations do. One of my favorites, WLS, in Chicago, offers streaming in Windows Media, Real, and recently they added MP3. They are a very big and popular AM station, they claim they are the most listened to AM talk station on the internet. So there is at least one very large, or serious, company that is willing to use MP3.
Of course, one company doesn't mean everyone is willing, but it certainly is a start. I expect this is easier for talk radio because they own the rights to everything they broadcast (syndication aside) so they are free to let people copy it at will. Of course, a music station has to make an attempt to prevent copying, so even though it would be nice, I don't see them using MP3 or OGG ever.
It seems to me that they are missing "Grok." Seems rather strange that they would leave that one out. I use it on a daily basis, and so do most other people I know.
I think this is ridiculous, since this would imply that you must carry ID at all times just in case.
In most cases I would agree with you 100%, but in this case, the guy was in his vehicle, which he had been operating on a public road. In this situation, it is required that you carry your ID (driver's license) with you for the duration. As for the cop stopping and seeing what was up with a guy parked on the side of the road, they often stop in that case to see if anything is wrong and when they do, they tend to ask for ID. Typically they will have already run the license plate, and becuase they are stopping, they want to see if the guy has any warrants or anything of that sort, such as driving on a suspended license, or owing two years of child support. I don't think it is too much to ask for the guy to comply, I would in his shoes.
That being said, I think charging him with Delaying an Officer is rather silly, however, he was in his car, having driven it to that location, there is an expectation that he has his driver's license with him. Had he simply been walking down the street, the cop's request would have not made sense as there is no expectation that the person has a driver's license with them.
I do agree with your statements, for the most part. I was trying to point out that the company can do what it wants in regards to hiring and firing. The choices they make may help them or hurt them in the long run, but the choices are their's to make. Certainly practices like this lead to poor morale and thus productivity once word gets out to the rest of their employees.
In many cases, it is beneficial to both parties to feel some loyalty to eachother, I am simply pointing out that it is the owner's right to terminate anyone who they feel they need to. Good or bad, the choice belongs to them. It rather sucks if you are the employee on the receiving end, but before anyone gets bent out of shape about the hiring and firing practices somewhere, they should try to look at it from the business's point of view.
COntrary to the belief by many people, business's do not exist to provide a job to any particular person, excepting perhaps, the owner. A business exists for the sole purpose of making money for the people who own it. The fact that they provide jobs to other people is mearly incidental. As such, the owners or management can choose who they want working for them.
Anybody who doesn't see it this way should try to put themselves into the position of the owners. Try to imagine owning a company. If you are the boss and you don't want a particular person working there any longer, you would fire them, right?
If you don't like people having that sort of power over you, start your own business.
Now, don't get me wrong, I do feel that what the company did was most likely a bad move, and certainly was not a good way to repay a person who seems to have been a good employee.
Any way you look at it, the management is responsible to the owners, be it private parties or stockholders. Their job is to make money for them. It is not to provide the employees with work.
Sorry for the rant, but I get irritated when people think the their employer OWES them a job, they don't.
I know the sig is wrong. Hockey was acutally invented a very long time ago in Europe. It is old enough that the exact origins of the sport are unkown. In regards to Cananda, one might say that currently accepted 'Modern Hockey' i.e. the NHL was started there.
Hockey is played in several countries around the world, and in many different forms, which is one of the most interesting parts of the game.
As for basketball, it was definately invented in North America, though I think it was in the US. I know that it was invented by a minister at a YMCA to provide a sport that people could play in the winter without the need for lots of special equipment.
The weirding modules were never in the books as I recall. The miniseries was more accurate concerning the weirding way as compared to the original movie. I think that it is a concept that is very hard to get accrossed in a movie, where the audience will often lack the background information that can be given in a book.
In the book, the weirding way is mroe focused on the nerves and muscles of the body to allow a person much more precise control of their body. It always seems to me that the weirding way is simply an extension on Bene Gesserit Prana Bindu training that focuses on combat.
While the miniseries di have its faults, this is one part that they got much more correct than did the original movie.
What do you know, it sounds like beer may be good for me after all. Time to start drinking more!
Ford:...It's rather unpleasantly like being drunk.
Arthur: Whats so unpleasant about being drunk?
Ford: Ask a glass of water.
--Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
General Motor's contract with the canadian company that produces the f-body cars (camaro and firebird) expires at the end of the 2002 model year. There is a lot of speculation going on about that contract not being renewed. Then again, it could all be hype to try and get people to buy those cars now, thinking that they won't be able to in the future. Or they may end up the same way that Ford's thunderbird did, where they stop production for a few years and then do a huge hyp campaign while re-releasing them.
At the very least I rather suspect that the firebird will get canned before the camaro, which is unfortunate as the 'bird has a much nicer body style, and better options (WS6, etc...) IMHO.
First off, it may have been more useful if you would have given a city where you want to work. But aside from that, I recommen finding small companies that are growing. I can recommend a few places in the Chicago area, but that all I know.
Software Technologies Group: (http://www.stg.com) does a lot of recruiting over most of Nrthern Illinois. They specialize in UNIX systems software (device drivers, monitoring software, etc...) and I have never heard anything bad from any of their current or ex-employees about the company. In fact I am currently an intern there myself.
Otherwise, try places like Motorola, Lucent, or maybe Sun, HP, or SGI.
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Very good point. I am guilty of doing just that (though I usually manage to write some code instead of just reading/.) I *know* that this isn't very healthy, which is why I try to force myself to get out and play some hockey, or join the guys when we play volleyball on fridays (instead of lunch).
Obviously, sitting in front of a TV, or computer for you entire life is going to cause problems.
I don't know much about ADD but i would think that sporting-type activities would be better. Atleast they can tire you out both physically and mentally.
anyway, just anther couple of 1/2 pennies worth my thoughts...
hhhmmm My attention span has never been longer than the time it takes me to drink that first beer..
But, seriously, this isn't the first time someone has reported something good coming from video games. The question, as with everything, is: Do the various 'good' thing out way the 'bad' things.
Don't get me wrong, I have wasted many hours in front of my Atari, Nintendo or computer playing everything from Combat to UT. Realistically, I don't think that there is anything wrong with video games in general, but I have met several people who do nothing but sit infront of their (insert favorite gaming device) for days at a time. This can't be healthy in any way. Hockey - Canada's gift to the world
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One example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... There is about a 230,000 pound difference in takeoff weight and landing weight. Aircraft of this sort would have some means of dumping fuel if necessary, there are FAA regs covering this case. Of course, in the case of a true emergency, you do what you need to do to get the plane on the ground.
As a (student) pilot, I'm immensely interested in alternative power plants for aircraft. AvGas is not cheap. Solar may not get you 100% of the way there, especially for instrument conditions, but it could offer a boost to a battery operated system. Obviously, like with electric cars, energy density and recharge time continue to provide significant hurdles. There are a few examples of small, limited range, general aviation type aircraft cropping up already, and I expect that progress will continue to be made on this front.
As for limiting population, the solution to that problem is spreading to the stars. If there is not enough space or resources on this planet, then the time has come to find a way to spread to another one.
We will always use energy, and our demand will continue to grow. That is part of life. Should we intentionally squander what we have? Of course not, but the way the world runs, we will continue to need more and more.
Yes, and at the same time we will eliminate our ability to progress scientifically. Innovation, invention, and discovery are driven by our own innate laziness and greed. People desire to create things that make their lives easier (laziness), provide them with money or fame (greed). If you eliminate greed, you have taken away a large portion of our desire to increase our scientific knowledge, and our understanding of the universe.
Also, the desire to profit, and to maximize profits, are not evil in and of themselves. The desire for profits is what drives economies, and gives people jobs. Without greed and profits we would still be living in mud huts or caves, and scrounging for our food. Sure, some people take it too far, but eliminating it would send us right back to the dark ages.
The way I look at, I am going to have a couple of beers per week any, so it is nice to know that there are some healthy side effects. I consider the drinking of beer to be a hobby. I drive all over looking for new varieties of beer to try.
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At any rate, it is nice to be able to say to my wife that one beer a day is good for me
I suppose you could install a dish inside of your apartment, regardless of what the landlord said, but the owner of the building should have the final say in regards to attaching the dish to the outside of the building. It is, after all, his/her property, and renting an apartment in the building does not give you the right to modify the outside of the building in any way. Nor does it give you the right modify or alter the interior of the apartment.
As for using a WAP, if you live in housing provided by the college, they make the rules. They can certainly say what is allowed ot be connected to their network, and they can limit or regulate the devices used on their property. They can ban the use of a specific class of device, such as a hotplate, toaster, or microwave oven. They can ban using a WAP. They are not necessarily regulating the spectrum, they are just saying that you can't use that specific type of device.
If the rule was, "Students may not use any devices which transmits in the XXXHz to YYYHz range," things might be different. It comes down to property rights, the college owns the land and the buildings. It is well within their rights to regulate activities on that land.
Imagine you own a home and someone comes over. They are within their First Amendment rights to say what ever they want, but that doesn't mean you have to put up with it. It's your house, you can tell them to leave, and not come back. The same applies to a university.
Put another way, does a university have a right to regulate smoking in its buildings and dorms? Smoking is perfectly legal, assuming you are 18, but yet many places ban smoking in dorms. Some also ban drinking.
Honestly now, is there ever a time when a nice, chilled beer would NOT be tasty? I know I would a nice cold Trappist Ale at this moment...
I still have no interest in actually buying a hybrid for my own use. I don't feel that they offer the performance that I like in a car. Other people have commented that the Prius is way under powered.
While these cars a obviously a good option for some people, I still think that they need to do several things before they are ready for main stream use by everyone. The biggest issue for me is the price. It needs to come down as they don't save enough gas to justify the extra money that you need to spend on one.
I am happy that the car works for you, and perhaps some day, it will be right for me and my family. I am sure that I will always have my gasoline powered cars as I am a bit of a gear head, and I enjoy tinkering with them, but once some other technology reaches the point where it is as cheap and reliable as the ICE, I am sure I will have some of those.
Thanks again for pointing out some interested facts abotu the Prius. I was obviously mistaken on a few points.
The batteries is a hybrid have nothing to do with lower emissions, that is all managed by computerized engine controls and catalytic converters.
Any car with a proper combination of engine controls and exhaust set up can easily qualify as an LEV, regardless of the gas mileage that they get. It is mearly a measure of the make up of the exhaust gases, typically so many parts per million of certain polutants compared to the total output, which is mostly water vapor and carbon dioxide.
While I follow the development of hybrid and alternative fuel vehicles, they have a long way to go before they are ready for main stream use. The current hybrids are too small to be useful for anything more than driving to work. They are not terribly strong and I would not want to be in one if it was ever in an accident. Plus, what sort of environmental impact are these vehicles going to have in a junkyard in ten years with all of the highly toxic batteries, and how much pollution came about as a result of making the batteries. It may not be much as compared to the millions of typical car batteries currently rotting in junk yards around the world, but it just may be enough to bridge the gap between the hybrids and normal cars.
As for other alternative fuels, E85 (ethanol) is very promising, and once it becomes mass-produced, the costs should go down, until we have a drought in the Midwest. Then we are going to have high demand for those crops for food and fuel. Hydrogen is not terribly practical other than used in fuel cells for an electric car, and there are problems with storage of the hydrogen.
For now, give me a modern gasoline engine, on a modern car. Until the other technologies are more mature, they are not much of an option, at least for me.
My appologies, I was not aware that the Porsche was air-cooled. I do know that temperature control is far easier to achieve in a water cooled engine.
As for the hummer, I always think of the original, I do not like the H2 at all.
I do not necessarily believe that newer is always better. I know it is possible to tune a carburator to run as clean as modern EFI systems, its just harder.
As for the Bug, it will pollute more, or at least it will spew things that are worse, than the hummer because it lacks a catalytic converter to remove the CO and NOx from the exhaust.
As for comparing 2- and 4-stroke engines, people tend to think that 2-stroke is not as clean because in a typical 2-stroke you burn a lot of oil as well, but people neglect to consider the fact that all 4-strokes burn oil as well. In fact most auto manufacturers consider one quart of oil per 1000 miles to be perfectly fine. Besides, a 2-stroke is more efficient in terms of power output as you generate power with every stroke.
When ever I think of a Hummer, I still picture the original, and in fact I would love to get my hands on one. I find the H2 to be a repulsive POS. I would never buy one.
Speaking specifically abotu the old VW Bugs, they used an air cooled engine with absolutely no emissions controls. It is not really feasible with an air cooled engine to control the operating temperature precisely enough to prevent the formation of the more hazardous polutants, specifically the various oxides of nitrogen, which are a big contributing factor to acid rain. These compounds form more readily at higher combustion temperatures. We deal with them today by limiting the combustion temp through the use of an EGR valve, and by adjusting water flow through the engine. Along with temerature control, all exhaust fumes are passed through a catalytic converter, which converts CO and NOx compounds in to more friendly things.
Given that a modern Hummer has all of these polution control features which an old VW Bug can never have, the Hummer is a much cleaner vehicle. Now that is not to say that it the cleanest one out there, but almost anything is cleaner than an old Bug. Not to mention that the Hummer is a far safer vehicle in which to travel, which certainly makes my interest in one go up.
Actually, some radio stations do. One of my favorites, WLS, in Chicago, offers streaming in Windows Media, Real, and recently they added MP3. They are a very big and popular AM station, they claim they are the most listened to AM talk station on the internet. So there is at least one very large, or serious, company that is willing to use MP3.
Of course, one company doesn't mean everyone is willing, but it certainly is a start. I expect this is easier for talk radio because they own the rights to everything they broadcast (syndication aside) so they are free to let people copy it at will. Of course, a music station has to make an attempt to prevent copying, so even though it would be nice, I don't see them using MP3 or OGG ever.
It seems to me that they are missing "Grok." Seems rather strange that they would leave that one out. I use it on a daily basis, and so do most other people I know.
In most cases I would agree with you 100%, but in this case, the guy was in his vehicle, which he had been operating on a public road. In this situation, it is required that you carry your ID (driver's license) with you for the duration. As for the cop stopping and seeing what was up with a guy parked on the side of the road, they often stop in that case to see if anything is wrong and when they do, they tend to ask for ID. Typically they will have already run the license plate, and becuase they are stopping, they want to see if the guy has any warrants or anything of that sort, such as driving on a suspended license, or owing two years of child support. I don't think it is too much to ask for the guy to comply, I would in his shoes.
That being said, I think charging him with Delaying an Officer is rather silly, however, he was in his car, having driven it to that location, there is an expectation that he has his driver's license with him. Had he simply been walking down the street, the cop's request would have not made sense as there is no expectation that the person has a driver's license with them.
I do agree with your statements, for the most part. I was trying to point out that the company can do what it wants in regards to hiring and firing. The choices they make may help them or hurt them in the long run, but the choices are their's to make. Certainly practices like this lead to poor morale and thus productivity once word gets out to the rest of their employees.
In many cases, it is beneficial to both parties to feel some loyalty to eachother, I am simply pointing out that it is the owner's right to terminate anyone who they feel they need to. Good or bad, the choice belongs to them. It rather sucks if you are the employee on the receiving end, but before anyone gets bent out of shape about the hiring and firing practices somewhere, they should try to look at it from the business's point of view.
COntrary to the belief by many people, business's do not exist to provide a job to any particular person, excepting perhaps, the owner. A business exists for the sole purpose of making money for the people who own it. The fact that they provide jobs to other people is mearly incidental. As such, the owners or management can choose who they want working for them.
Anybody who doesn't see it this way should try to put themselves into the position of the owners. Try to imagine owning a company. If you are the boss and you don't want a particular person working there any longer, you would fire them, right?
If you don't like people having that sort of power over you, start your own business.
Now, don't get me wrong, I do feel that what the company did was most likely a bad move, and certainly was not a good way to repay a person who seems to have been a good employee.
Any way you look at it, the management is responsible to the owners, be it private parties or stockholders. Their job is to make money for them. It is not to provide the employees with work.
Sorry for the rant, but I get irritated when people think the their employer OWES them a job, they don't.
I know the sig is wrong. Hockey was acutally invented a very long time ago in Europe. It is old enough that the exact origins of the sport are unkown. In regards to Cananda, one might say that currently accepted 'Modern Hockey' i.e. the NHL was started there.
Hockey is played in several countries around the world, and in many different forms, which is one of the most interesting parts of the game.
As for basketball, it was definately invented in North America, though I think it was in the US. I know that it was invented by a minister at a YMCA to provide a sport that people could play in the winter without the need for lots of special equipment.
Try replacing the 'www' in the URL with 'archives' that usually gets past the registration thing.
The weirding modules were never in the books as I recall. The miniseries was more accurate concerning the weirding way as compared to the original movie. I think that it is a concept that is very hard to get accrossed in a movie, where the audience will often lack the background information that can be given in a book.
In the book, the weirding way is mroe focused on the nerves and muscles of the body to allow a person much more precise control of their body. It always seems to me that the weirding way is simply an extension on Bene Gesserit Prana Bindu training that focuses on combat.
While the miniseries di have its faults, this is one part that they got much more correct than did the original movie.
What do you know, it sounds like beer may be good for me after all. Time to start drinking more!
...It's rather unpleasantly like being drunk.
Ford:
Arthur: Whats so unpleasant about being drunk?
Ford: Ask a glass of water.
--Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
General Motor's contract with the canadian company that produces the f-body cars (camaro and firebird) expires at the end of the 2002 model year. There is a lot of speculation going on about that contract not being renewed. Then again, it could all be hype to try and get people to buy those cars now, thinking that they won't be able to in the future. Or they may end up the same way that Ford's thunderbird did, where they stop production for a few years and then do a huge hyp campaign while re-releasing them. At the very least I rather suspect that the firebird will get canned before the camaro, which is unfortunate as the 'bird has a much nicer body style, and better options (WS6, etc...) IMHO.
First off, it may have been more useful if you would have given a city where you want to work. But aside from that, I recommen finding small companies that are growing. I can recommend a few places in the Chicago area, but that all I know.
Software Technologies Group: (http://www.stg.com) does a lot of recruiting over most of Nrthern Illinois. They specialize in UNIX systems software (device drivers, monitoring software, etc...) and I have never heard anything bad from any of their current or ex-employees about the company. In fact I am currently an intern there myself.
Otherwise, try places like Motorola, Lucent, or maybe Sun, HP, or SGI.
Hope this helps.
Hockey - Canada's gift to the world
Very good point. I am guilty of doing just that (though I usually manage to write some code instead of just reading /.) I *know* that this isn't very healthy, which is why I try to force myself to get out and play some hockey, or join the guys when we play volleyball on fridays (instead of lunch).
Obviously, sitting in front of a TV, or computer for you entire life is going to cause problems.
I don't know much about ADD but i would think that sporting-type activities would be better. Atleast they can tire you out both physically and mentally.
anyway, just anther couple of 1/2 pennies worth my thoughts...
Hockey - Canada's gift to the world
hhhmmm My attention span has never been longer than the time it takes me to drink that first beer..
But, seriously, this isn't the first time someone has reported something good coming from video games. The question, as with everything, is: Do the various 'good' thing out way the 'bad' things.
Don't get me wrong, I have wasted many hours in front of my Atari, Nintendo or computer playing everything from Combat to UT. Realistically, I don't think that there is anything wrong with video games in general, but I have met several people who do nothing but sit infront of their (insert favorite gaming device) for days at a time. This can't be healthy in any way.
Hockey - Canada's gift to the world