Up until recently they could not hold the Priesthood (which is how power in the Church is passed out), but that was wisely ammended. Still there are very few blacks in the Church, but after attending a couple of black churches back in the day I can see why. Mormon religious ceremonies are long and boring and the puritan movement is historically caucasion, I believe.
Amen to that. There's a long line of my family history in that church. My mom was "excommunicated" from the Mormon church in 1968 for participating in the civil rights parades where we lived in Southern California. Damn proud of her for that too! The church back then had an unfortunate unbending policy against blacks under its old prophet who finally died and now its haunting them. I don't know if the long and boring services are what's keeping blacks out, but it keeps me from attending. Imagine yourlself in a suit and tie all day long. Members do lead a healthy lifestyle though.
There are blacks in the Mormon church today and they are heavily recruited.
Reminds me of how stealing cable access is a felony, but me taking a hammer to your car (doubtless costing much more loss of property) is only a gross misdemeanor.
Laws are interesting. Reminds me of an uncle of mine who is currently serving a minimum of 12 years in Leavenworth for manufacturing E. It wasn't the E that many people are glad he's away. He had a thing for taking a hammer to stereos that didn't play his kind of music, bashing people's heads into a wall when he didn't like how a discussion was going his way, exchanging merchandise at stores without telling the merchant, breaking into neighbor's houses to steal a pen . . . just a real fuck up. Everything he did was a slap on the wrist all his life until he was 40. Until he made some happy drug. The judge and state marshall wanted him away for life.
Now, IF the fed decides to make a "bandwidth tax" or a "transaction tax", which is what some are proposing now, that is a breech of our constitution"
A tax on our internet bandwidth would effectively be a tax on free speech.
Imagine getting taxed on a popular web page. Say you are a member of a local band who enjoys sharing some music. Even though you want to give away the music for free, that bandwidth is going to be taxed.
It adds up. Free speech is going to be costly. Disadvantaged people will not afford to express opinions or go to jail for tax evasion.
The optimist in me makes me take a look at the bright side of internet taxes as each state scrambles to take a cut of goods crossing their borders:
It will put Amazon out of business.
The bad side:
It will put most other internet shops out of business too. I can say goodbye to all the nice hardware I buy on a whim and no more greeting the nice fedex and UPS guys who bring me big boxes full of computer toys.
And as for moral questions - well, what moral questions? Copyright is not inalienable. It exists purely as an enticement for people to create content,...
I was over at a friend's house last night and watching the little kids learn about property rights. One of her little girls has learned that everything "belongs" to her and if the other baby takes it, she takes it back. "Mine!" She does it to adults too. Actually, its kind of funny. Its behavior like that which reminds me of the broadcast industry, which is not so funny.
People like you are going to keep the open source movement from advancing.
Don't be so paranoid. There's a reason why open source became adopted by many people.
Take a trip back to 1997. Windows was so buggy and it wasn't just me. Everyone else was losing data and lost time. Remember when NT was released? NT 3.5? If that wasn't enough, remember NT 4.0? At work too. Viruses were rampant. I was afraid to look at someone else's computer for fear it would break out and catch something. My computer was in isolation and its inbred closed operating system still crashed. It was the shits.
Only because many of the show stopping bugs have been found in Windows that many people are able to find it completely tolerable. I won't return to Windows, because now I see its a closed source trap.
Open source has gotten a lot of attention lately not because it is economically free, but because companies/people are profitting off of it.
People are making a profit off it? Great; however, I make my money doing something else, but when computers crash, it makes my job harder. That's why I enjoy the stability and open nature of free software.
Open hardware design is great for people like me who often find a need to work with existing machines and adapt them to the changing needs we have. Open things open up opportunities. If they close them, find another line of work.
The reason microwave radiation heats up food and liquids isn't the power output,
Try again. My experiments with microwave attenuation, S band 2.4GHz and X band 10GHz, show otherwise. I found most organic things absorb high frequencies into heat. Here's a quote from this link that looks into microwave behavior:
It's a common misconception that the microwaves in a microwave oven excite a natural resonance in water. The frequency of a microwave oven is well below any natural resonance in an isolated water molecule, and in liquid water those resonances are so smeared out that they're barely noticeable anyway.
You bring up an interesting point. Consider that microwaves operate at 2.4GHz. Wireless lans operate at 2.4GHz. Now, microwave ovens are in use around here, but haven't caused me a problem in the past;
however, if some nut decides to take his loud 2.4GHz oven apart and aim the waveguide in my general direction, my crystal controlled 2.4GHz connection can be expected to fail.
How does the power of one of these 2.4Ghz low power transmitters compare to the EMF already emitted from common electronic appliances such as a laptop.
This is by no means a scientific measurement of RF power, but last night when my little Nokia digital cell phone rang under my 17 inch monitor, the screen shifted to the left just before the call. It takes power to mess up a monitor. The 5 watt UHF Motorola radios at work will move the picture on the computer monitors half way to the left. Back in my teenage years, I remember a 150 PEP mobile 11 meter linear amplifier that would invade all televisions and telephones on a block. (I would strongly discurage the use of said amplifier for reasons other than safety.)
Taking my directional antenna and feeding the full power of a flood ping to the heart of my monitor does . . . nothing. So, my guess is that these wireless devices are not as potent as the mighty 600 milliwatt cell phone.
I looked at your setup and I was supprised to clearly see the MAC address.
It really is a conspiracy by the Clinton administration to prevent consumer privacy by having funny rules about encryption. Visit my wireless lan in Starkville, Mississippi and send your president a letter about how you would like freely distributable encryption. I'm sure the Secret Service are going to get lots of these querries from a great deal many other places too.
Here's what you need to know: gateway: 192.168.1.1
Considering your microwave oven is 1000 to 2000 watts and your wireless network card is a wimpy 100mW, good luck at getting it to heat a cup of coffee or your brain.
Here's how to add a highly directional antenna to a wireless card with no antenna jack, specifically a zoomair card. I have three of them and did this to two of them. Line of sight goes for miles!:)
I'd rather have the linuxcare version with the debian, but had a good ride through there site trying to find one. Anyhow, google shows up some vendors of these business card cd's and cdr's:
Is it the patent office's fault for stupid patents? Amazon's? I'd say Amazon is 100% at fault for trolling the patent office with intent of destroying its competitors. They are doing it to harm competition, not to promote business technology. If anyone beleives they have invented some novel process, they are being snowed. Its all about money and greed. They will get away with it until they are no longer allowed to troll the patent office.
Cell phones have the neat ability to negotiate power with the cell tower. When the signal is too strong, perhaps enough to bleed into multiple neighboring cells, they get a packet to turn down the power a notch.
Several years ago when I worked for the university, I helped throw out an old word processing system that my boss insisted was outdated (it wasn't broke, so why fix it?) It sported an old 10MB hard drive and if I remember right it was powered by a three phase motor. I laugh when a person today says installing a hard drive is complicated. Today's drive weighs less than 100 pounds and doesn't require a special circuit breaker.
Makes me want to install my advanced MFM card and see how well those state of the art IBM drives will work with my 2.2.12 kernel. Does anyone still know what RLL means anymore?
Reminds me of the old radio gag of having everyone flush their toilets at the same time to protest high water prices.
Speaking of flooding national systems, a friend of mine worked at a water treatment plant (sewage.) I joked to him about the "Superbowl Flush" effect that I heard about in the late 70's and asked if he could comment on it. The theory went something like when America would all get together on Superbowl Sunday to drink beer and watch the barbaric game of football up until halftime, at which time thier urinary bladders exceeded maximum capacity. The concern was that everyone and thier brother made a dash for the toilet, whizzed, and flushed at the same time, overloading the sewer systems and rivers across the country, possibly causing mass flooding, etc...
He stated it was no joke and described the incoming rush of water was real.
So, I guess we could all flush our crap at the same time and jam echelon in the same way. Whoooohooooo!
No more "tickle me elmo", now it's "Tickle me merger"...
Elmo. I saw some Elmo muppet movie last night (kids had control of the remote) and wondered if that same doofus that destroyed my memories of Inspector Gadget with that bomb of a movie made this Elmo movie too. It was just plain mean spirited and supposed to be funny. I remember when the muppets were just plain weird and one never knew what to expect. It was exciting. Now, we get to watched stuffed animals beat up on eachother.
I guess times have changed and now we have things like the shoot-me-up-Elmo doll cartoon to reflect the crap we get from the movie studios.
I've seen a rapid increase in sites that assume that shockwave plugins are available for Lynx.
No joke. Often, I like using a simple browser to cut through the fancy schmancy graphics and get down to the text message. Its what humans speak.
Many times I surf the int-r-net from a Wyse-60 terminal under lynx and appreciate getting just the facts. A little formatting is nice and a bit of confusion is expected, but what I saw on georgewbush.com was jibberish that only Ronald Regan could mumble off:
Slashdot Mirror
Up until recently they could not hold the Priesthood (which is how power in the Church is passed out), but that was wisely ammended. Still there are very few blacks in the Church, but after attending a couple of black churches back in the day I can see why. Mormon religious ceremonies are long and boring and the puritan movement is historically caucasion, I believe.
Amen to that. There's a long line of my family history in that church. My mom was "excommunicated" from the Mormon church in 1968 for participating in the civil rights parades where we lived in Southern California. Damn proud of her for that too! The church back then had an unfortunate unbending policy against blacks under its old prophet who finally died and now its haunting them. I don't know if the long and boring services are what's keeping blacks out, but it keeps me from attending. Imagine yourlself in a suit and tie all day long. Members do lead a healthy lifestyle though.
There are blacks in the Mormon church today and they are heavily recruited.
Reminds me of how stealing cable access is a felony, but me taking a hammer to your car (doubtless costing much more loss of property) is only a gross misdemeanor.
Laws are interesting. Reminds me of an uncle of mine who is currently serving a minimum of 12 years in Leavenworth for manufacturing E. It wasn't the E that many people are glad he's away. He had a thing for taking a hammer to stereos that didn't play his kind of music, bashing people's heads into a wall when he didn't like how a discussion was going his way, exchanging merchandise at stores without telling the merchant, breaking into neighbor's houses to steal a pen . . . just a real fuck up. Everything he did was a slap on the wrist all his life until he was 40. Until he made some happy drug. The judge and state marshall wanted him away for life.
Now, IF the fed decides to make a "bandwidth tax" or a "transaction tax", which is what some are proposing now, that is a breech of our constitution"
A tax on our internet bandwidth would effectively be a tax on free speech.
Imagine getting taxed on a popular web page. Say you are a member of a local band who enjoys sharing some music. Even though you want to give away the music for free, that bandwidth is going to be taxed.
It adds up. Free speech is going to be costly. Disadvantaged people will not afford to express opinions or go to jail for tax evasion.
The optimist in me makes me take a look at the bright side of internet taxes as each state scrambles to take a cut of goods crossing their borders:
It will put Amazon out of business.
The bad side:
It will put most other internet shops out of business too. I can say goodbye to all the nice hardware I buy on a whim and no more greeting the nice fedex and UPS guys who bring me big boxes full of computer toys.
And as for moral questions - well, what moral questions? Copyright is not inalienable. It exists purely as an enticement for people to create content, ...
I was over at a friend's house last night and watching the little kids learn about property rights. One of her little girls has learned that everything "belongs" to her and if the other baby takes it, she takes it back. "Mine!" She does it to adults too. Actually, its kind of funny. Its behavior like that which reminds me of the broadcast industry, which is not so funny.
This explains everything:
"Craig said the company was settling because it could not afford to continue fighting the suit."
The industry promptly postures:
"Today's settlement signals that the rights of copyright holders and creators cannot be ignored.''
What this tells me is who ever has the biggest bat wins. Not who's right or wrong, but who can pound the other into submission.
People like you are going to keep the open source movement from advancing.
Don't be so paranoid. There's a reason why open source became adopted by many people.
Take a trip back to 1997. Windows was so buggy and it wasn't just me. Everyone else was losing data and lost time. Remember when NT was released? NT 3.5? If that wasn't enough, remember NT 4.0? At work too. Viruses were rampant. I was afraid to look at someone else's computer for fear it would break out and catch something. My computer was in isolation and its inbred closed operating system still crashed. It was the shits.
Only because many of the show stopping bugs have been found in Windows that many people are able to find it completely tolerable. I won't return to Windows, because now I see its a closed source trap.
Open source has gotten a lot of attention lately not because it is economically free, but because companies/people are profitting off of it.
People are making a profit off it? Great; however, I make my money doing something else, but when computers crash, it makes my job harder. That's why I enjoy the stability and open nature of free software.
Open hardware design is great for people like me who often find a need to work with existing machines and adapt them to the changing needs we have. Open things open up opportunities. If they close them, find another line of work.
The reason microwave radiation heats up food and liquids isn't the power output,
Try again. My experiments with microwave attenuation, S band 2.4GHz and X band 10GHz, show otherwise. I found most organic things absorb high frequencies into heat. Here's a quote from this link that looks into microwave behavior:
It's a common misconception that the microwaves in a microwave oven excite a natural resonance in water. The frequency of a microwave oven is well below any natural resonance in an isolated water molecule, and in liquid water those resonances are so smeared out that they're barely noticeable anyway.
Here are some more unwise things to do with microwave ovens and a link to microwave myths.
More interesting stuff:
Here are some more ways to destroy your microwave oven (not recommended!)
You bring up an interesting point. Consider that microwaves operate at 2.4GHz. Wireless lans operate at 2.4GHz. Now, microwave ovens are in use around here, but haven't caused me a problem in the past;
however, if some nut decides to take his loud 2.4GHz oven apart and aim the waveguide in my general direction, my crystal controlled 2.4GHz connection can be expected to fail.
How does the power of one of these 2.4Ghz low power transmitters compare to the EMF already emitted from common electronic appliances such as a laptop.
This is by no means a scientific measurement of RF power, but last night when my little Nokia digital cell phone rang under my 17 inch monitor, the screen shifted to the left just before the call. It takes power to mess up a monitor. The 5 watt UHF Motorola radios at work will move the picture on the computer monitors half way to the left. Back in my teenage years, I remember a 150 PEP mobile 11 meter linear amplifier that would invade all televisions and telephones on a block. (I would strongly discurage the use of said amplifier for reasons other than safety.)
Taking my directional antenna and feeding the full power of a flood ping to the heart of my monitor does . . . nothing. So, my guess is that these wireless devices are not as potent as the mighty 600 milliwatt cell phone.
I looked at your setup and I was supprised to clearly see the MAC address.
It really is a conspiracy by the Clinton administration to prevent consumer privacy by having funny rules about encryption. Visit my wireless lan in Starkville, Mississippi and send your president a letter about how you would like freely distributable encryption. I'm sure the Secret Service are going to get lots of these querries from a great deal many other places too.
Here's what you need to know:
gateway: 192.168.1.1
Considering your microwave oven is 1000 to 2000 watts and your wireless network card is a wimpy 100mW, good luck at getting it to heat a cup of coffee or your brain.
Here's how to add a highly directional antenna to a wireless card with no antenna jack, specifically a zoomair card. I have three of them and did this to two of them. Line of sight goes for miles! :)
I'd rather have the linuxcare version with the debian, but had a good ride through there site trying to find one. Anyhow, google shows up some vendors of these business card cd's and cdr's:
:)
http://www.bizcard-cd.com/
http://store.yahoo.com/c itiscape-retail/buscarcdr.html
http://thiscardrocks.com/
http://www.nimz.com/mbc.htm
http://www.cds.com/shapes/default.htm
http://www.mcmnewmedia.com/
and many more places selling them. If linuxcare is selling their custom version, I'd sure like to know! And pass a few around!
I like this guy:
"I'd like to become a Guinness researcher," said actor Tim McGarry.
Is it the patent office's fault for stupid patents? Amazon's? I'd say Amazon is 100% at fault for trolling the patent office with intent of destroying its competitors. They are doing it to harm competition, not to promote business technology. If anyone beleives they have invented some novel process, they are being snowed. Its all about money and greed. They will get away with it until they are no longer allowed to troll the patent office.
Cell phones have the neat ability to negotiate power with the cell tower. When the signal is too strong, perhaps enough to bleed into multiple neighboring cells, they get a packet to turn down the power a notch.
It would be a nice feature for wireless lan cards to do the same, but I don't see that feature on mine. I like the ability to select the channel hopping sequence and I use directional antennas for line of sight communication, so there could be a lot of traffic in this neighborhood.
Damn good job!
'nuff said!
I hate it when sites go down and disappear. Here is a mirror of one of the reports complete with pretty pictures.
Now that's fast. I remember when 60ms was fast.
Several years ago when I worked for the university, I helped throw out an old word processing system that my boss insisted was outdated (it wasn't broke, so why fix it?) It sported an old 10MB hard drive and if I remember right it was powered by a three phase motor. I laugh when a person today says installing a hard drive is complicated. Today's drive weighs less than 100 pounds and doesn't require a special circuit breaker.
Makes me want to install my advanced MFM card and see how well those state of the art IBM drives will work with my 2.2.12 kernel. Does anyone still know what RLL means anymore?
Reminds me of the old radio gag of having everyone flush their toilets at the same time to protest high water prices.
Speaking of flooding national systems, a friend of mine worked at a water treatment plant (sewage.) I joked to him about the "Superbowl Flush" effect that I heard about in the late 70's and asked if he could comment on it. The theory went something like when America would all get together on Superbowl Sunday to drink beer and watch the barbaric game of football up until halftime, at which time thier urinary bladders exceeded maximum capacity. The concern was that everyone and thier brother made a dash for the toilet, whizzed, and flushed at the same time, overloading the sewer systems and rivers across the country, possibly causing mass flooding, etc...
He stated it was no joke and described the incoming rush of water was real.
So, I guess we could all flush our crap at the same time and jam echelon in the same way. Whoooohooooo!
Someone mail the text of the report and I'll mirror it or just post it here. Something. I can't stand the suspense! :O
No more "tickle me elmo", now it's "Tickle me merger"...
Elmo. I saw some Elmo muppet movie last night (kids had control of the remote) and wondered if that same doofus that destroyed my memories of Inspector Gadget with that bomb of a movie made this Elmo movie too. It was just plain mean spirited and supposed to be funny. I remember when the muppets were just plain weird and one never knew what to expect. It was exciting. Now, we get to watched stuffed animals beat up on eachother.
I guess times have changed and now we have things like the shoot-me-up-Elmo doll cartoon to reflect the crap we get from the movie studios.
I've seen a rapid increase in sites that assume that shockwave plugins are available for Lynx.
No joke. Often, I like using a simple browser to cut through the fancy schmancy graphics and get down to the text message. Its what humans speak.
Many times I surf the int-r-net from a Wyse-60 terminal under lynx and appreciate getting just the facts. A little formatting is nice and a bit of confusion is expected, but what I saw on georgewbush.com was jibberish that only Ronald Regan could mumble off:
[nav_shadow_rt_mid.gif]
[nav_shadow_left_mid.gif] [ISMAP:nav_youth.gif]-[USEMAP:nav_youth.gif]
[nav_shadow_rt_mid.gif]
[nav_shadow_left_mid.gif]btn_red_2.gif (60 bytes) btn_red_2.gif (60 bytes) btn_red_2.gif (60 bytes)
What is his message? Between all that I can see a secret message in there. He wants money.
I can't believe M$ would spy on Windows users.
Beleive it.