If you've ever seen the "Road Warrior" with Mel Gibson, that thing the sidekick guy flies around is a Gyrocopter.
Basically, a free-spin rotor at top set at an angle and a small rotor to push in back. Add a few control surfaces and you can fly by moving forward and counting on drag to spin the top rotor.
Your story reminded me of one my dad used to talk about.
This was a paper mill, of the type that took trees and made them into paper.
These mills typically have several large boilers to make heat and steam to do stuff, and there is a lot of paper scrap that gets created during cutting. The scrap is put in the boilers to burn it... getting rid of the scrap helping on saving of the other fuel (coal I think). So there's always guys moving the stuff around and everybody has a chance to see with this scrap looks like.
So the guards catch a guy with a wheelbarrow full of this type of paper scrap attempting to leave with it. No printing on it, just big sheets or partial rolls of paper. They poke through it and let the guy go. (I don't know if he used to work there or worked there or what, but in any case there was no badge involved. It was the 70's so maybe they didnt have them yet.)
The guy goes by the same few guards twice a week for weeks, each time getting his cargo inspected for contraband. No problems, sure you can have the paper scrap.
At the end of the year, 102 missing wheelbarrows.
Theft is not always what it seems to be at the time.
The first 50% of the fine comes from seizing and selling at auction the primary residences of the board members, then proceeding on to their other assets.
The next 25% comes from the "C" officers personal finances. (CEO, CTO, etc.) If additional money is needed, start down the latter.
The last 25% is converted into a formula (pro-rated and regressive) of minutes in jail. Spread it out and start at the top. At a big company it migh translate to 3 or 4 days in jail for a lot of management.
"Virtually all I could see on the road was a cat's-eye reflector every now and then," Mr. Dicks said, recalling his trip down one of Britain's major highways. "I figured that if I could make the cat's-eyes more visible, I could probably save more lives than I could in the fire service."
A back injury forced Mr. Dicks out of the fire department shortly afterward, giving him the time to pursue that goal. His training as an electrical engineer provided the necessary skills.
I wonder if Mr. Dick's back injury has anyting to do with driving down a highway in dense fog for four hours and running into stuff?
It seems to me like he needs a lesson on defensive driving... or rather learning not to be driving when you can't SEE maybe?
If it's that hard to see, he should have pulled off the road. Sheesh.
North Korea has in the past (though not much recently) used mini-subs to infiltrate commandos into civilian populations... which then killed civilians and tried to disrupt industry civic services. Definately state terrorism.
They have not been particularly preemptive recently, so they haven't been on the "destroy soon" list. (That and the nukes they may or may not have.)
Yeah, that's why resistors don't change resistance at different temperatures.
And also why there aren't dozens and dozens of models of car battery warmers for sale already!
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You must live in a nice warm place, as I'll tell you that the outside temperature of a car has a lot to do with the power coming from a car battery.
Sure, engine resistance due to oil and part size and alternator reistance, etc. is part of it.
But the chemical reaction has an "activiation" energy (i.e. ambient heat) that's fixed; the lower the battery temp, the more energy is used for that activation, and the less available to send to the starter.
Yes. Rumor or true or whatever that information was responsible for _all_ of the Dominos pizza locations in Madison, WI disappearing in less than a year in the mid 90's. They were gone from the city until some time last year.
Yay progressive idiologies!
Anyway, Pappa Johns has ordering online (GUI) in case you are hungry.
Don't be suprised if the delivery guy is a little freaked out though, they aren't used to the online orders.
I still have a little program from my early tech support days... it takes a screen shot of the screen, gives you a crosshairs cursor and lets you shoot bullet holes in your app... making a satisfying gun-firing sound.
I first got it with Windows95 and it's been on every install of Windows I have had since.
Needs fuel plus oxygen plus ignition, which 800 apparently had.
Motor vehicles have vapor, but not the ignition and usually not the oxygen.
Flight 800 had a mostly empty center tank of approximately 13,000 gallon capacity. Between 500 and 1,500 times that of a normal car.
It had approximately 50 - 100 gallons of fuel in it, enough to create good vapor for the remaining 13,000 gallon capacity.
That fuel was also not gasoline, but kerosene (more or less) a very different substance. So the explosive air/vapor mixture yields very different explosive energy in jet fuel vs. gasoline.
So you are comparing a fire-cracker to a friggin MOAB and saying "see they both can explode, therefore the firecracker is just as dangerous as the MOAB."
It's still safe to say that after all the cars on the road and all the collisions and so on that gasoline when contained in the tank is resaonably safe.
I am sure if you had Googled, you'd have realized your comparison doesn't work at all.
90% (or more) of the recyclable material I generate is related to my booze consumption.
Booze, beer, and all the stuff that goes with it is morally objectionable to some people and some whole religions.
Therefore, to pacify those irrational beliefs I should throw my cans and bottles in a landfill rather than having them re-used. A valuable resource forgone, and a burden on landfills produced.
Sound stupid? It is. But that's exactly what your arguement is.
While abortions are certainly a really bad solution to a problem, they do need to happen at this point and they are still legal.
Assuming that, the tissue produced can be either wasted or used to actually help people. To me it's a no brainer.
Only a stupid facist pseudo-christian asshole would imply that abortions happen just to produce stem cells for research. It seems to me that's exactly what you did.
That's a great image. You should make a cartoon or something... it needs to have "Roger Kaputnik" (sp) in it.*
Seriously though, my pit stick is a bottle of 91% Rubbing Alcohol. A few splashes and all the germs at the beginning of the day (after showering) are _dead_. No smelly all day. (Keep a bottle at work to freshen up, and is good for cleaning computer parts.) Has more applications per unit than stick and has no nasty odors or textures and won't show on your black t-shirt. Plus cheaper and nobody "borrows" it and you can play fire with it etc.
Original submitter should get on usenet, there are dozens of "frugal" and "survivalism" and "off the grid" type groups where free ideas are shared.
As for me, I work hard so I can waste hard later with the money I earn. I see little point in spending time on saving money when the rate of $ saved is less than a crappy 2nd job I could pick up, if I need more money I spend a little less on something else or get a weekend job.
Those "work from home" things are a scam, most "frugal" stuff is just self-scam too when you figure the money/hour saved. My time for living is worth more than a chip of soap.
Maybe your provider's provider sucks and you should get a new ISP?
Better yet, call them up every 15 minutes and cost them a bunch of money in tech support until they get rid of the spammers on their network.
Class B's don't get blocked unless the ISP has been unresponsive. Maybe they should treat complaints seriously and their addresses wouldn't get blocked... hmmm?
University of Nebraska graduate students reported that running up stairs was an effective way to get away from the defective traffic barrels, which chased after the students yelling "EXTERMINATE!! EXTERMINATE!" even though they original design did not call for speakers or any noise making capability in the robots.
Themoacoustic coolers can probably be produced with a much higher mean time between failure as well. Fewer moving parts. I assume they could make a long-life speaker cone and make it replacable with a "slide out, slide in, recharge gas" type fix.
The end result is fewer fridges go to landfills beause they broke.
Even if the average lifetime of the fridge can be raised by a few percent, that's significant reduction in appliance-garbage.
There has been some speculation that the "great flood" written about in the Bible is oral tradition that was spawned when the Mediterranean basin was re-flooded again the last time.
It happened when there were people around who could have added it to their folklore.
The basin used to be like a super-big death valley, dry, but below sea level. The Atlantic rose (due to ice melting I suppose) towards it's present level and flowed over the landmass that kept it out. A torrent of sea-water would have flowed for several years into the basin to fill it. That allowed the folks living there time to get out alive but also worry about huge masses of water coming at them for no reason that they could understand.
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With a real link this time.
Here's a link with pictures (German):
Gyrocopter
If you've ever seen the "Road Warrior" with Mel Gibson, that thing the sidekick guy flies around is a Gyrocopter.
Basically, a free-spin rotor at top set at an angle and a small rotor to push in back. Add a few control surfaces and you can fly by moving forward and counting on drag to spin the top rotor.
Your story reminded me of one my dad used to talk about.
This was a paper mill, of the type that took trees and made them into paper.
These mills typically have several large boilers to make heat and steam to do stuff, and there is a lot of paper scrap that gets created during cutting. The scrap is put in the boilers to burn it... getting rid of the scrap helping on saving of the other fuel (coal I think). So there's always guys moving the stuff around and everybody has a chance to see with this scrap looks like.
So the guards catch a guy with a wheelbarrow full of this type of paper scrap attempting to leave with it. No printing on it, just big sheets or partial rolls of paper. They poke through it and let the guy go. (I don't know if he used to work there or worked there or what, but in any case there was no badge involved. It was the 70's so maybe they didnt have them yet.)
The guy goes by the same few guards twice a week for weeks, each time getting his cargo inspected for contraband. No problems, sure you can have the paper scrap.
At the end of the year, 102 missing wheelbarrows.
Theft is not always what it seems to be at the time.
I touched a flux capacitor and haven't been the same since 1955.
An easy fix.
Adjust the law;
The first 50% of the fine comes from seizing and selling at auction the primary residences of the board members, then proceeding on to their other assets.
The next 25% comes from the "C" officers personal finances. (CEO, CTO, etc.) If additional money is needed, start down the latter.
The last 25% is converted into a formula (pro-rated and regressive) of minutes in jail. Spread it out and start at the top. At a big company it migh translate to 3 or 4 days in jail for a lot of management.
See if the company feels like shaking off that.
"Virtually all I could see on the road was a cat's-eye reflector every now and then," Mr. Dicks said, recalling his trip down one of Britain's major highways. "I figured that if I could make the cat's-eyes more visible, I could probably save more lives than I could in the fire service."
A back injury forced Mr. Dicks out of the fire department shortly afterward, giving him the time to pursue that goal. His training as an electrical engineer provided the necessary skills.
I wonder if Mr. Dick's back injury has anyting to do with driving down a highway in dense fog for four hours and running into stuff?
It seems to me like he needs a lesson on defensive driving... or rather learning not to be driving when you can't SEE maybe?
If it's that hard to see, he should have pulled off the road. Sheesh.
North Korea has in the past (though not much recently) used mini-subs to infiltrate commandos into civilian populations... which then killed civilians and tried to disrupt industry civic services. Definately state terrorism.
They have not been particularly preemptive recently, so they haven't been on the "destroy soon" list. (That and the nukes they may or may not have.)
Did you mean:
"controlled flight into terrain"
as say the civillian folks about a pilot that follows a beacon on the wrong altitude....
Yeah, that's why resistors don't change resistance at different temperatures.
And also why there aren't dozens and dozens of models of car battery warmers for sale already!
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You must live in a nice warm place, as I'll tell you that the outside temperature of a car has a lot to do with the power coming from a car battery.
Sure, engine resistance due to oil and part size and alternator reistance, etc. is part of it.
But the chemical reaction has an "activiation" energy (i.e. ambient heat) that's fixed; the lower the battery temp, the more energy is used for that activation, and the less available to send to the starter.
So the logical thing to do is make the encrypted files play like MP3s of Britany or MC Hammer and it's perfectly safe.
As long as you never accidentally press "Play" that is.
#4. Profit!
Yes. Rumor or true or whatever that information was responsible for _all_ of the Dominos pizza locations in Madison, WI disappearing in less than a year in the mid 90's. They were gone from the city until some time last year.
Yay progressive idiologies!
Anyway, Pappa Johns has ordering online (GUI) in case you are hungry.
Don't be suprised if the delivery guy is a little freaked out though, they aren't used to the online orders.
I still have a little program from my early tech support days... it takes a screen shot of the screen, gives you a crosshairs cursor and lets you shoot bullet holes in your app... making a satisfying gun-firing sound.
I first got it with Windows95 and it's been on every install of Windows I have had since.
Needs fuel plus oxygen plus ignition, which 800 apparently had.
Motor vehicles have vapor, but not the ignition and usually not the oxygen.
Flight 800 had a mostly empty center tank of approximately 13,000 gallon capacity. Between 500 and 1,500 times that of a normal car.
It had approximately 50 - 100 gallons of fuel in it, enough to create good vapor for the remaining 13,000 gallon capacity.
That fuel was also not gasoline, but kerosene (more or less) a very different substance. So the explosive air/vapor mixture yields very different explosive energy in jet fuel vs. gasoline.
So you are comparing a fire-cracker to a friggin MOAB and saying "see they both can explode, therefore the firecracker is just as dangerous as the MOAB."
It's still safe to say that after all the cars on the road and all the collisions and so on that gasoline when contained in the tank is resaonably safe.
I am sure if you had Googled, you'd have realized your comparison doesn't work at all.
Yeah, that and parents that smoke.
Have a smoker in the house, and all other risk factors are so small to be irrelevant.
So you object to recycling then?
90% (or more) of the recyclable material I generate is related to my booze consumption.
Booze, beer, and all the stuff that goes with it is morally objectionable to some people and some whole religions.
Therefore, to pacify those irrational beliefs I should throw my cans and bottles in a landfill rather than having them re-used. A valuable resource forgone, and a burden on landfills produced.
Sound stupid? It is. But that's exactly what your arguement is.
While abortions are certainly a really bad solution to a problem, they do need to happen at this point and they are still legal.
Assuming that, the tissue produced can be either wasted or used to actually help people. To me it's a no brainer.
Only a stupid facist pseudo-christian asshole would imply that abortions happen just to produce stem cells for research. It seems to me that's exactly what you did.
That's a great image. You should make a cartoon or something... it needs to have "Roger Kaputnik" (sp) in it.*
Seriously though, my pit stick is a bottle of 91% Rubbing Alcohol. A few splashes and all the germs at the beginning of the day (after showering) are _dead_. No smelly all day. (Keep a bottle at work to freshen up, and is good for cleaning computer parts.) Has more applications per unit than stick and has no nasty odors or textures and won't show on your black t-shirt. Plus cheaper and nobody "borrows" it and you can play fire with it etc.
Original submitter should get on usenet, there are dozens of "frugal" and "survivalism" and "off the grid" type groups where free ideas are shared.
As for me, I work hard so I can waste hard later with the money I earn. I see little point in spending time on saving money when the rate of $ saved is less than a crappy 2nd job I could pick up, if I need more money I spend a little less on something else or get a weekend job.
Those "work from home" things are a scam, most "frugal" stuff is just self-scam too when you figure the money/hour saved. My time for living is worth more than a chip of soap.
* Mad Magazine, late Seventies.
Get an old copy of 6 or 7.
Put in a bogus email address.
When the trial expires, reinstall with a different bogus address.
It works great, and you don't have to entertain the idea that Norton would somehow work better. (It sucks worse.)
It sounds like you need to stop buying Dodge to me.
Maybe your provider's provider sucks and you should get a new ISP?
Better yet, call them up every 15 minutes and cost them a bunch of money in tech support until they get rid of the spammers on their network.
Class B's don't get blocked unless the ISP has been unresponsive. Maybe they should treat complaints seriously and their addresses wouldn't get blocked... hmmm?
Fast and cool...
Actually, a lot of home - grown vehicles have already done that.
University of Nebraska graduate students reported that running up stairs was an effective way to get away from the defective traffic barrels, which chased after the students yelling "EXTERMINATE!! EXTERMINATE!" even though they original design did not call for speakers or any noise making capability in the robots.
Themoacoustic coolers can probably be produced with a much higher mean time between failure as well. Fewer moving parts. I assume they could make a long-life speaker cone and make it replacable with a "slide out, slide in, recharge gas" type fix.
The end result is fewer fridges go to landfills beause they broke.
Even if the average lifetime of the fridge can be raised by a few percent, that's significant reduction in appliance-garbage.
I don't know the geology but...
There has been some speculation that the "great flood" written about in the Bible is oral tradition that was spawned when the Mediterranean basin was re-flooded again the last time.
It happened when there were people around who could have added it to their folklore.
The basin used to be like a super-big death valley, dry, but below sea level. The Atlantic rose (due to ice melting I suppose) towards it's present level and flowed over the landmass that kept it out. A torrent of sea-water would have flowed for several years into the basin to fill it. That allowed the folks living there time to get out alive but also worry about huge masses of water coming at them for no reason that they could understand.
And from Deja.com (now Google Groups)
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