I was 7 and lived in Bremerton Washington which is to the west of Seattle accross the Puget Sound. I believe it was a Sunday and we got a phone call saying that church was canceled. I remember a grey morning and the TV said not to go outside, and that those masks really didn't do a whole lot for you. It was really scary to see those famous photographs of the mountain blowing out and the crazy mud flows (lahars?) coming off the mountain the next couple of days. A year or two later we were having a barbeque and saw a mushroom cloud to the south east. I don't know if they were teasing me or not, but the adults said that that was from St Helens.
Funny enough, I was actually at BYU at that time and even participated in the intramural College Bowls. Once I was invited to participate in the Intermural match that was held at Provo. I don't remember Ken though, too many years ago.
Anyway, I am more proud that this guy went to my alma mater than the fact that 49'ers quarterback Steve Young also went to BYU. I would rather have Supreme Court Justices, Astronauts and Nobel Prize winners come from my school than Super-Bowl winning athletes. Congratulations Ken.
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Ok, so you are from Montana, what city was the garage painting incident? Did you have a home owners association? Did you try to persue damages?
This write up doesn't quite describe my life, but close enough. I have been married now for over 5 years and my wife has just told me that she is going to leave me. We have a child that is two years old, and this turn of events is tearing me up inside. I love her very much, but she tells me that I am emotionally distant.
I work really hard, and I guess when I came home my mind was somewhere else. She wanted to do things together when I just was spent and tired. I wasn't into her hobbies, and she didn't care for mine. I did always ask her though before if she was happy, and she always said yes. I resolved to never touch the computer again when she was in the house, and I broke the CD of the game that I would play. We are getting counseling, but she pretty much said she doesn't care what I do, she is out of here.
I remembered when I was a kid I would always seek out a quiet corner away from my large family to be by myself. That doesn't work well when you are married. I am in the middle of changing my entire life, and it isn't comfortable. Find out "why" you like computer games. If it is because you like to avoid people then you have a real problem, and get counseling. I know many people like CS clans, but still games eat up SO MUCH TIME. Spend it with real people.
My advice? Don't use computer games as a substitute for real relationships. Not when you are a teen, not when you are an adult. They aren't good for anything except wasting time. The web is only slightly better than games. It is hard to make real relationships with real people, and they can hurt at times, but they are much much more fulfilling.
I apologize for perhaps a couple of overzealous young men. I knocked doors* down in Buenos Aires for two years, and it was one of the hardest yet most fulfilling things I have ever done. We were always taught to be assertive yet polite. After all, it is important to make friends, because no one wants to listen to a foreign pushy know-it-all.
* Actually in Argentina you typically stand outside the fence and clap your hands instead of knock doors or ring doorbells.
Read the article. It does an cost analysis and indicates that after the initial investment of around $130 billion, we start saving $50 billion a year from the money we don't send overseas, PLUS another $50 billion that stays in the US economy. Isn't that worth not hearing "no blood for oil" ever again? It would be kind of funny to hear "no blood for algae".
Actually the Hindenburg probably wouldn't have blown up or burnt nearly so quickly IF THEY DIDN'T PAINT IT WITH ROCKET FUEL. (oh the irony) Hydrogen will burn with a flame that travels upwards.
No, the only safety concern that I have with Hydrogen is that it tends to escape from a confined space much more quickly than does Helium.
You don't read the news. India has been fighting its own war against terrorism. A few years ago there was a grenade attack against a provincial parliment building that killed a bunch of people. India and Pakistan almost went to war over it. One of the reasons the Chineese didn't raise a stink about us going into Afghanistan with lots of bases in surrounding countries was that they have their own Muslim separtist movement against the Han minority. This movement was getting help from Al-Qaeda, and Beijing didn't want another Chechnya within its borders. The Netherlands a couple of years ago had a Muslim cleric calling for Sharia and an Islamic state being created in the Netherlands. By the way, one could argue that the reason why Switzerland is not attacked is because a lot of citizens keep automatic weapons in their homes, or that larger more powerful nations like the USA stand up and take the brunt of it. You can afford to relax on national security if you know some bigger, stronger nation will take care of you.
Big problem number one is that a tank of hydrogen is several orders of magnitude more frightening than a tank of gasoline.
Um, kinda like the Hindenburg went up? The problem with that is that I've heard the Hindenburg probably wouldn't have burned so fast if they wouldn't have painted it with rocket fuel.
I went to the Meteor Crater in Northern Arizona and at the visitor center they had something very similar, with graphics and everything. You put in the speed, angle, size and density of the asteroid, and they had a graphical display of the damage. Not to take anything away from the UofA. I live in Tucson, and know some of the planetary scientists.
Whatever. You don't even have the guts to post this under a fake computer name, but post as an anonymous coward. Doesn't a sovereign nation have the right to know who crosses it's borders? Passports can be faked or modified. Ten years ago while travelling through Europe my brother-in-law (a diplomat) told me to take extra precaution with my passport because on the black market it was worth $10,000. I don't know if you were paying attention, but almost two years ago, 19 non-US citizens slashed the throats of flight attendents and airline pilots and intentionally flew three airplanes into three very large buildings. They did this with the intention of killing as many people (mostly civilians) as possible, as well as throwing my country into chaos. So please understand that we are somewhat cautious about the people who enter our country. Do you remember Richard Reid? He tried to light a shoe on fire and blow a hole in the side of a 747. Only the passengers managed to stop him. He was carrying a British passport. Atta lived in Germany. There are very active Al Qaida cells in Spain. There are also very large immigrant populations in France and the Netherlands. Now my wife is a European, and she had to get fingerprinted twice while applying for her green card. The Fourth Reich? Please. I can still criticize the government. Many people make a lucrative career out of criticizing the government and become celebrities. I can assemble and affiliate myself with groups who are against the current administration. I find it interesting that the most vehement detractors of John Ashcroft also seem to think that we could have somehow prevented the 9/11 attacks.
I went to BYU as a Physics major, and met Dr. Stephen Jones who was doing cold-fusion research at the same time Fleishman and Pons were doing theirs one hour north at the University of Utah. He said that the two teams found they were working independent of each other, and decided to hold a joint press conference to announce their findings. ANYWAY he said that the more accurate they got their neutron detectors, the less "cold fusion" they saw. Dr. Jones dropped "cold fusion", and experimented with sonoluminesce instead. One of my friends (about eight years ago) decided to do his Senior project on this very topic (sonofusion) and was blessed with really acurate neutron detectors that he inherited from Dr. Jones. I asked him how the experiment was going, and he said very poorly. Whenever they turned the apparatus on it generated LESS neutrons than normal background noise! So I guess they were PREVENTING fusion!
Yes, of course, remember everything you read on the internet is true. I certainly believe a single web page from one account of a single unknown Iraqi about a different American tank wreaking fantastic damage with a single shot. Yes it melted a bus and shrank adults. Thank you, Mr. Anonymous Coward for your insights.
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I was 7 and lived in Bremerton Washington which is to the west of Seattle accross the Puget Sound. I believe it was a Sunday and we got a phone call saying that church was canceled. I remember a grey morning and the TV said not to go outside, and that those masks really didn't do a whole lot for you. It was really scary to see those famous photographs of the mountain blowing out and the crazy mud flows (lahars?) coming off the mountain the next couple of days. A year or two later we were having a barbeque and saw a mushroom cloud to the south east. I don't know if they were teasing me or not, but the adults said that that was from St Helens.
Souter was nominated by George H. W. Bush. Make that 6 by the GOP.
It wasn't a head-on, the solar car was cutting back across the traffic and got T-boned.
No, I don't think so. On the DVD they showed it as part of his audition. But to be honest, I don't know if that was verbatim.
Why is it I never have mod points when I read something funny? You just made my morning! Thanks. : )
Funny enough, I was actually at BYU at that time and even participated in the intramural College Bowls. Once I was invited to participate in the Intermural match that was held at Provo. I don't remember Ken though, too many years ago.
Anyway, I am more proud that this guy went to my alma mater than the fact that 49'ers quarterback Steve Young also went to BYU. I would rather have Supreme Court Justices, Astronauts and Nobel Prize winners come from my school than Super-Bowl winning athletes. Congratulations Ken.
Ok, so you are from Montana, what city was the garage painting incident? Did you have a home owners association? Did you try to persue damages?
What about Orson Scott Card, Steven Covey or Gladys Knight?
This write up doesn't quite describe my life, but close enough. I have been married now for over 5 years and my wife has just told me that she is going to leave me. We have a child that is two years old, and this turn of events is tearing me up inside. I love her very much, but she tells me that I am emotionally distant.
I work really hard, and I guess when I came home my mind was somewhere else. She wanted to do things together when I just was spent and tired. I wasn't into her hobbies, and she didn't care for mine. I did always ask her though before if she was happy, and she always said yes. I resolved to never touch the computer again when she was in the house, and I broke the CD of the game that I would play. We are getting counseling, but she pretty much said she doesn't care what I do, she is out of here.
I remembered when I was a kid I would always seek out a quiet corner away from my large family to be by myself. That doesn't work well when you are married. I am in the middle of changing my entire life, and it isn't comfortable. Find out "why" you like computer games. If it is because you like to avoid people then you have a real problem, and get counseling. I know many people like CS clans, but still games eat up SO MUCH TIME. Spend it with real people.
My advice? Don't use computer games as a substitute for real relationships. Not when you are a teen, not when you are an adult. They aren't good for anything except wasting time. The web is only slightly better than games. It is hard to make real relationships with real people, and they can hurt at times, but they are much much more fulfilling.
I apologize for perhaps a couple of overzealous young men. I knocked doors* down in Buenos Aires for two years, and it was one of the hardest yet most fulfilling things I have ever done. We were always taught to be assertive yet polite. After all, it is important to make friends, because no one wants to listen to a foreign pushy know-it-all.
* Actually in Argentina you typically stand outside the fence and clap your hands instead of knock doors or ring doorbells.
Read the article. It does an cost analysis and indicates that after the initial investment of around $130 billion, we start saving $50 billion a year from the money we don't send overseas, PLUS another $50 billion that stays in the US economy. Isn't that worth not hearing "no blood for oil" ever again? It would be kind of funny to hear "no blood for algae".
Actually the Hindenburg probably wouldn't have blown up or burnt nearly so quickly IF THEY DIDN'T PAINT IT WITH ROCKET FUEL. (oh the irony) Hydrogen will burn with a flame that travels upwards.
No, the only safety concern that I have with Hydrogen is that it tends to escape from a confined space much more quickly than does Helium.
You don't read the news. India has been fighting its own war against terrorism. A few years ago there was a grenade attack against a provincial parliment building that killed a bunch of people. India and Pakistan almost went to war over it.
One of the reasons the Chineese didn't raise a stink about us going into Afghanistan with lots of bases in surrounding countries was that they have their own Muslim separtist movement against the Han minority. This movement was getting help from Al-Qaeda, and Beijing didn't want another Chechnya within its borders.
The Netherlands a couple of years ago had a Muslim cleric calling for Sharia and an Islamic state being created in the Netherlands.
By the way, one could argue that the reason why Switzerland is not attacked is because a lot of citizens keep automatic weapons in their homes, or that larger more powerful nations like the USA stand up and take the brunt of it. You can afford to relax on national security if you know some bigger, stronger nation will take care of you.
Big problem number one is that a tank of hydrogen is several orders of magnitude more frightening than a tank of gasoline.
Um, kinda like the Hindenburg went up? The problem with that is that I've heard the Hindenburg probably wouldn't have burned so fast if they wouldn't have painted it with rocket fuel.
Iran is not a democracy. Those in power in the latest election prevented the opposition from appearing on the ballot.
I don't know, did anyone else find the 1953 nomination for Arthur C. Clarke - Childhood's End -- somewhat disturbing?
I went to the Meteor Crater in Northern Arizona and at the visitor center they had something very similar, with graphics and everything. You put in the speed, angle, size and density of the asteroid, and they had a graphical display of the damage.
Not to take anything away from the UofA. I live in Tucson, and know some of the planetary scientists.
Whatever. You don't even have the guts to post this under a fake computer name, but post as an anonymous coward.
Doesn't a sovereign nation have the right to know who crosses it's borders? Passports can be faked or modified. Ten years ago while travelling through Europe my brother-in-law (a diplomat) told me to take extra precaution with my passport because on the black market it was worth $10,000.
I don't know if you were paying attention, but almost two years ago, 19 non-US citizens slashed the throats of flight attendents and airline pilots and intentionally flew three airplanes into three very large buildings. They did this with the intention of killing as many people (mostly civilians) as possible, as well as throwing my country into chaos. So please understand that we are somewhat cautious about the people who enter our country. Do you remember Richard Reid? He tried to light a shoe on fire and blow a hole in the side of a 747. Only the passengers managed to stop him. He was carrying a British passport. Atta lived in Germany. There are very active Al Qaida cells in Spain. There are also very large immigrant populations in France and the Netherlands.
Now my wife is a European, and she had to get fingerprinted twice while applying for her green card.
The Fourth Reich? Please. I can still criticize the government. Many people make a lucrative career out of criticizing the government and become celebrities. I can assemble and affiliate myself with groups who are against the current administration.
I find it interesting that the most vehement detractors of John Ashcroft also seem to think that we could have somehow prevented the 9/11 attacks.
I would have said that it was more like the applications annoying tendency to leak memory like a sieve.
I went to BYU as a Physics major, and met Dr. Stephen Jones who was doing cold-fusion research at the same time Fleishman and Pons were doing theirs one hour north at the University of Utah. He said that the two teams found they were working independent of each other, and decided to hold a joint press conference to announce their findings. ANYWAY he said that the more accurate they got their neutron detectors, the less "cold fusion" they saw. Dr. Jones dropped "cold fusion", and experimented with sonoluminesce instead.
One of my friends (about eight years ago) decided to do his Senior project on this very topic (sonofusion) and was blessed with really acurate neutron detectors that he inherited from Dr. Jones. I asked him how the experiment was going, and he said very poorly. Whenever they turned the apparatus on it generated LESS neutrons than normal background noise! So I guess they were PREVENTING fusion!
Um, and what about New York City having its football stadium in another State? Go East Rutherford New Jersey Jets!!
OH! Congrats, you got a smile out of me. And I had mod points yesterday too. oh well
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Good, in that case I wanted you to know your product is a memory hog and leaks memory like a sieve.
Yes, I found that to be the most interesting part of Gone with the Wind. There was not one minute of that movie where I did not want to slap her.
Yes, of course, remember everything you read on the internet is true. I certainly believe a single web page from one account of a single unknown Iraqi about a different American tank wreaking fantastic damage with a single shot. Yes it melted a bus and shrank adults. Thank you, Mr. Anonymous Coward for your insights.