You missed the WMD part - where the CIA said that they had raw intel about it and our "leaders" who wanted a war took it as gospel and ran with it to support their cause. So far as I know CIA never delivered a finished vetted report claiming WMD, I'm pretty sure it would've been "leaked" if such a thing existed.
Considering the lead up to the war I'm quite sure any REAL WMD were shipped off to Syria long before we got there.
You apparently didn't see these packaged with their latest warnings - it was pretty clearly labeled. The person who decorated the cake with these was a complete moron. Adding steel balls - magnetic or not - to food is a recipe for disaster.
True, they have gotten stronger I'll grant that. But I did have some pretty strong magnets as a child although likely not large enough to be swallowed. I think the strongest small magnet I had was alnico, it came taped in a children's book from the BookMobile in a book about magnets. It's what got me interested in magnets in the first place - I'm a good bit older than 15;-) as I got older I got many many more magnets but for a good while that one was the strongest I had and never once did I think to put it in my mouth nor did anyone freak that I had it. I was in 1st grade for kripes sakes and smart enough to know it wasn't food.
I am also aware as to what a hassle it is to have these in your home. I have some extremely strong magnets that came from ancient HDD. Larger for sure but strong enough that when I walked past a tube TV within say 3ft I had screwed up colors for days afterwards. I've been forced to keep them out in my garage where they cause a little less trouble. With flat panels everywhere it's less trouble but when two of these come together they can smash fingers so I tend to leave them alone. I do desire some of the larger Neo magnets but I know that they can be far more dangerous!
Regardless of strength they don't belong in kid's mouths. I can understand concerns about them as parts of toys but as a desk toy for adults? At what point do we exercise personal responsibility? The way they have gone after this guy is silly, his precautions seem to be sensible and I recall the warnings on them when I saw them in the stores. I know that early on the warnings were weaker, they changed that. This certainly seems like bureaucracy run wild to me...
I used to buy Tritum keychains from DX as well because I couldn't get them shipped here from the UK. Seems that illumination using Tritium is considered a "trivial use of radiation" and keychains need not apply. Never mind that my watches have it and so do many gun sights. However, like the powerful lasers DX used to sell it seems these were pulled...
DX sells, last I looked, GPS jammers, Cell jammers, all sorts of things that make the Govt. twitch. Having seen some of these firsthand purchased by others I can't help but laugh at crap like the banning of these balls. The day I heard about it I bought some from DX just to give them the finger.
At work we have all sorts of fun with them. Hanging them from the lights and seeing how many can dangle - they nearly touch the floor. Making obscene sculptures out of them (some of the ones I have are as big as superballs). Pretty much it's just an idle distraction and some fun showing people the differences with magnetic polarity and whatnot. Leave a pile on your desk or hanging from something and you'll find that people cannot resist picking them up and making things with them. Mindless fun really although as a child they would have kept me entertained for hours I'm sure - I had a collection of magnets and I'd sit there for hours getting paperclips and other magnets to dance.
Oh and there WAS another company selling these made in the USA. They swore up and down they were going to fight this and they were apparently squashed too last I read their site. Long story short - these are easily available in many sizes and in great quantity you just cannot buy them from the American company that came up with the idea of using them as a toy...
Or maybe in this case a little personal responsibility? Like if you're a teen don't put them in your mouth to try and look cool? Decorate a wedding CAKE with them? Why would you put something that had warning labels all over it about ingestion IN or ON a piece of FOOD? I have purchased these, I own a bunch of them - I like magnets. I don't give them to children to play with because I'm not a moron and I've never placed them in my mouth - they aren't food. Lots of things are magnetic and we see them every day, why are these somehow special and in need of a product ban? Lawn darts these aren't and frankly even those were something I and others played with responsibly as CHILDREN without hurting anyone.
I played with a Bow and Arrow as a child - target arrows at least. I would fire them straight up in a field and then run to where they fell. firing them across a field was also fun and I played with large numbers of BlackCat firecrackers too. Looking back sure there was potential for stupidity and injury but it never happened. Why must we wrap kids in bubblewrap now?
As an aside - I had a magnet collection as a child. All sorts of shapes, sizes, and some were VERY strong. Never once did it ever occur to me to place them in my mouth or swallow them, I was taught better than that. Why are kids today so damned stupid? Teens swallowing these trying to imitate piercings is plain retarded...
I knew a couple of guys who hacked EVE pretty badly there for awhile although thankfully they didn't spread what they had done. They wrote clients to mine and fly missions that completely got under the hood and used EVE function calls to do everything. They even got reported for botting and passed muster by CCP during a huge 'bot purge. In the end they stopped "playing" because it got boring - I had to point out to them that they weren't actually playing but simply writing clients to play and that this was what had become boring to them. They had completely pwned the client and there was no real challenge left. They no longer play, as an EVE player I'm glad for it lol
Heh and don't forget SimEarth - written in Clipper of all things. Clipper was basically compiled DbaseIV:-O Kinda' miss working in that actually, it was fun work at the time and FAR faster than the interpeted DbaseIV stuff:-) SimAnt and others may have also been done this way, I didn't dig into those too much...
Yeah, this sucker really just wanted to get away although running at me seemed stupid in the bright light. I figured he was running AWAY from something nastier:-)
Worst I've heard of are the centipedes from Japan that will actually chase you!
I'm primarily familiar with German Cockroaches. They aren't really big but they breed like mad and seldom get even a quarter of this ones size! I can confirm that this sucker was pretty quick for it's ungainly size...
The light didn't bother this one but most roaches do NOT like light - they are nocturnal. *I* need light to be able to see and believe me I wanted to see this thing coming if it had a brother. You might think this was little but I assure you it wasn't, it was big enough to choke on. Think Cicada sized or slightly larger.
Nah, not Planet Hollywood. I've never stayed there. At the end of the day the room is home base not home but damn it would sure be nice to be able to sleep without worrying about something big with too many legs crawling into bed with you!
Have you seen the drinking glasses they keep in the bathroom of most places? That's what I caught him in and when he stood against the side of the glass he reached a good halfway up. Figure damn near 2inches long if I had to guess. Half inch wide maybe? I wish I'd put something in the picture for better scale lol
Man writes review on internet review site - something many of us do. Man writes truthful review. Man is sued for a great deal of cash as a result. Something that coudl happen to one of us. It matters.
Oh yeah, some of us have to travel while earning our living too:-O
I stayed at a hotel in Vegas recently, one right on the strip. While taking a dump one evening I caught motion out the corner of my eye and a bug larger than my thumb was found to be racing at me! I had to lift my feet for the damn thing to run by before it became trapped in the corner behind the toilet. The lights were full on too, he was bold as brass.
I trapped the bastard in a glass and called down to the front desk a bit freaked out - it was after midnight. I explained there was a bug issue and they sent up some poor guy from maintenance, he arrived with a vacuum cleaner. Imagine his surprise when I showed him the bug! I told him I had no idea what it was and that I hoped it was some sort of weird mutant Vegas bug. His eyes big as saucers he told me "no sir, that's a cockaroach!". He stepped back out of the room and radioed his superiors - who told him they wanted him to bring the bug to them! (lol)
He covered it with a washcloth and off he went none too happy. Management promptly called offering to move me but I was tired and declined, I spent the night with the lights on clothed.
The next morning I went down to speak to a manager and was again offered a different room, I took one close by so I wouldn't have to schlep my stuff too far. Within the next three days I saw a "Do Not Disturb" sign back on that door. The room was out of service for maybe two nights and I was able to confirm this when I found it noted on my bill. Two days was all they spent cleaning up. Now this wasn't bed bugs which are hard as hell to kill but it was the largest roach I've ever seen and the damn thing had wings too! No way in hell did this sucker grow up and spend his life in that room and no way in hell did he get in through some sort of crack, I looked all over for possible entryways with a flashlight. This fucker HAD to have squeezed under the door from the adjoining room or from the hall - asshats leaving their room service out in the hall probably provided him a damn good sustenance.
At the end of the day this hotel, which I had thought pretty decent, seemed pretty nonplussed by this whole thing and not the slightest bit embarrassed. Room out of service a bare minimum and no effort I could see to do anything about adjoining rooms or the source of this issue. I have to say I'm not sure I'll be staying there again!
P.S. I used to travel with a blacklight. I found one or two memorable things with it and honestly I no longer carry it - some things I just don't want to know!
Rain-X does what it's meant to and it wasn't designed for glasses so no it may not meet your needs. They do make an anti-fog product but I've not found it nearly as useful. Rain-X causes water to bead extremely well which when used in aircraft (original application) or on surfaces of cars that receive wind (not my back window) it's terrific. I seldom have need of my wipers at anything past a crawl. At slower speeds I simply focus past the droplets if its not raining hard enough to clear.
Sorry this might not work for your specific needs but it's a good product used properly. Maybe check out their anti-fog and hope for better success than I enjoyed...
These systems use crimped connectors, semi-rigid lines that prevent evap, and are pretty much sealed units. No leakage issues or plumbing woes. they also cannot compete with well built hand built cooling systems - which I run. they don't have the flexibility or the capacity for it - not yet. Done right leaks aren't an issue and even when it does happen there's no catastrophe - at least not in the instances I've had in years past. I'd love to know what these guys have used but I'm not sure it's nearly as cool as they want it to sound...
Prior to some additional tweaking and slowing down the clock on my CPU I was seeing extended temps as high as 90C on my computer. That's with water cooling:-) If these guys can shed heat better I'm all ears! that said I suspect this is marketing or some sort of water tension reducing chemical which I already use. Also, if this is as good as they say let's cool the GPU - THAT is the part that gets REALLY hot in a computer when it's doing serious crunching. The CPUs these days actually do pretty well.
If you'd like to reduce CPU heat that's fine too but do it with a sky high clock for those of us who use the cycles. The closer to ambient I can get my CPU the happier I am.
Mine is crunching now actually - temp is 67C, all cores maxxed, and will be for about 8-12 hours. video processing is a biatch...
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You missed the WMD part - where the CIA said that they had raw intel about it and our "leaders" who wanted a war took it as gospel and ran with it to support their cause. So far as I know CIA never delivered a finished vetted report claiming WMD, I'm pretty sure it would've been "leaked" if such a thing existed.
Considering the lead up to the war I'm quite sure any REAL WMD were shipped off to Syria long before we got there.
Issues with PayPal also got them all screwed up it seems and may be why the tritium tubes were removed
You apparently didn't see these packaged with their latest warnings - it was pretty clearly labeled. The person who decorated the cake with these was a complete moron. Adding steel balls - magnetic or not - to food is a recipe for disaster.
Heh, a punny!
True, they have gotten stronger I'll grant that. But I did have some pretty strong magnets as a child although likely not large enough to be swallowed. I think the strongest small magnet I had was alnico, it came taped in a children's book from the BookMobile in a book about magnets. It's what got me interested in magnets in the first place - I'm a good bit older than 15 ;-) as I got older I got many many more magnets but for a good while that one was the strongest I had and never once did I think to put it in my mouth nor did anyone freak that I had it. I was in 1st grade for kripes sakes and smart enough to know it wasn't food.
I am also aware as to what a hassle it is to have these in your home. I have some extremely strong magnets that came from ancient HDD. Larger for sure but strong enough that when I walked past a tube TV within say 3ft I had screwed up colors for days afterwards. I've been forced to keep them out in my garage where they cause a little less trouble. With flat panels everywhere it's less trouble but when two of these come together they can smash fingers so I tend to leave them alone. I do desire some of the larger Neo magnets but I know that they can be far more dangerous!
Regardless of strength they don't belong in kid's mouths. I can understand concerns about them as parts of toys but as a desk toy for adults? At what point do we exercise personal responsibility? The way they have gone after this guy is silly, his precautions seem to be sensible and I recall the warnings on them when I saw them in the stores. I know that early on the warnings were weaker, they changed that. This certainly seems like bureaucracy run wild to me...
I used to buy Tritum keychains from DX as well because I couldn't get them shipped here from the UK. Seems that illumination using Tritium is considered a "trivial use of radiation" and keychains need not apply. Never mind that my watches have it and so do many gun sights. However, like the powerful lasers DX used to sell it seems these were pulled...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmgXZ9atf58
http://club.dx.com/forums/forums.dx/threadid.994836
DX sells, last I looked, GPS jammers, Cell jammers, all sorts of things that make the Govt. twitch. Having seen some of these firsthand purchased by others I can't help but laugh at crap like the banning of these balls. The day I heard about it I bought some from DX just to give them the finger.
P.S. The lasers were apparently put in their own store now -> http://www.yourlasers.com/
At work we have all sorts of fun with them. Hanging them from the lights and seeing how many can dangle - they nearly touch the floor. Making obscene sculptures out of them (some of the ones I have are as big as superballs). Pretty much it's just an idle distraction and some fun showing people the differences with magnetic polarity and whatnot. Leave a pile on your desk or hanging from something and you'll find that people cannot resist picking them up and making things with them. Mindless fun really although as a child they would have kept me entertained for hours I'm sure - I had a collection of magnets and I'd sit there for hours getting paperclips and other magnets to dance.
Oh and there WAS another company selling these made in the USA. They swore up and down they were going to fight this and they were apparently squashed too last I read their site. Long story short - these are easily available in many sizes and in great quantity you just cannot buy them from the American company that came up with the idea of using them as a toy...
Or maybe in this case a little personal responsibility? Like if you're a teen don't put them in your mouth to try and look cool? Decorate a wedding CAKE with them? Why would you put something that had warning labels all over it about ingestion IN or ON a piece of FOOD? I have purchased these, I own a bunch of them - I like magnets. I don't give them to children to play with because I'm not a moron and I've never placed them in my mouth - they aren't food. Lots of things are magnetic and we see them every day, why are these somehow special and in need of a product ban? Lawn darts these aren't and frankly even those were something I and others played with responsibly as CHILDREN without hurting anyone.
I played with a Bow and Arrow as a child - target arrows at least. I would fire them straight up in a field and then run to where they fell. firing them across a field was also fun and I played with large numbers of BlackCat firecrackers too. Looking back sure there was potential for stupidity and injury but it never happened. Why must we wrap kids in bubblewrap now?
As an aside - I had a magnet collection as a child. All sorts of shapes, sizes, and some were VERY strong. Never once did it ever occur to me to place them in my mouth or swallow them, I was taught better than that. Why are kids today so damned stupid? Teens swallowing these trying to imitate piercings is plain retarded...
DealExtreme.com - it's where I've been getting mine from since this asshattery started.
http://dx.com/s/magnet+balls
I knew a couple of guys who hacked EVE pretty badly there for awhile although thankfully they didn't spread what they had done. They wrote clients to mine and fly missions that completely got under the hood and used EVE function calls to do everything. They even got reported for botting and passed muster by CCP during a huge 'bot purge. In the end they stopped "playing" because it got boring - I had to point out to them that they weren't actually playing but simply writing clients to play and that this was what had become boring to them. They had completely pwned the client and there was no real challenge left. They no longer play, as an EVE player I'm glad for it lol
Heh and don't forget SimEarth - written in Clipper of all things. Clipper was basically compiled DbaseIV :-O Kinda' miss working in that actually, it was fun work at the time and FAR faster than the interpeted DbaseIV stuff :-) SimAnt and others may have also been done this way, I didn't dig into those too much...
So does asphalt if heated hot enough...
You ever know a roach that lived alone? That grew THAT big? Sure, I'm sure he was the only one around. I have a bridge to sell you as well...
Did you not watch the video from the Dot Com mansion raid? lol
Yeah, this sucker really just wanted to get away although running at me seemed stupid in the bright light. I figured he was running AWAY from something nastier :-)
Worst I've heard of are the centipedes from Japan that will actually chase you!
I'm primarily familiar with German Cockroaches. They aren't really big but they breed like mad and seldom get even a quarter of this ones size! I can confirm that this sucker was pretty quick for it's ungainly size...
The light didn't bother this one but most roaches do NOT like light - they are nocturnal. *I* need light to be able to see and believe me I wanted to see this thing coming if it had a brother. You might think this was little but I assure you it wasn't, it was big enough to choke on. Think Cicada sized or slightly larger.
Nah, not Planet Hollywood. I've never stayed there. At the end of the day the room is home base not home but damn it would sure be nice to be able to sleep without worrying about something big with too many legs crawling into bed with you!
Have you seen the drinking glasses they keep in the bathroom of most places? That's what I caught him in and when he stood against the side of the glass he reached a good halfway up. Figure damn near 2inches long if I had to guess. Half inch wide maybe? I wish I'd put something in the picture for better scale lol
Man writes review on internet review site - something many of us do. Man writes truthful review. Man is sued for a great deal of cash as a result. Something that coudl happen to one of us. It matters.
Oh yeah, some of us have to travel while earning our living too :-O
I stayed at a hotel in Vegas recently, one right on the strip. While taking a dump one evening I caught motion out the corner of my eye and a bug larger than my thumb was found to be racing at me! I had to lift my feet for the damn thing to run by before it became trapped in the corner behind the toilet. The lights were full on too, he was bold as brass.
I trapped the bastard in a glass and called down to the front desk a bit freaked out - it was after midnight. I explained there was a bug issue and they sent up some poor guy from maintenance, he arrived with a vacuum cleaner. Imagine his surprise when I showed him the bug! I told him I had no idea what it was and that I hoped it was some sort of weird mutant Vegas bug. His eyes big as saucers he told me "no sir, that's a cockaroach!". He stepped back out of the room and radioed his superiors - who told him they wanted him to bring the bug to them! (lol)
He covered it with a washcloth and off he went none too happy. Management promptly called offering to move me but I was tired and declined, I spent the night with the lights on clothed.
The next morning I went down to speak to a manager and was again offered a different room, I took one close by so I wouldn't have to schlep my stuff too far. Within the next three days I saw a "Do Not Disturb" sign back on that door. The room was out of service for maybe two nights and I was able to confirm this when I found it noted on my bill. Two days was all they spent cleaning up. Now this wasn't bed bugs which are hard as hell to kill but it was the largest roach I've ever seen and the damn thing had wings too! No way in hell did this sucker grow up and spend his life in that room and no way in hell did he get in through some sort of crack, I looked all over for possible entryways with a flashlight. This fucker HAD to have squeezed under the door from the adjoining room or from the hall - asshats leaving their room service out in the hall probably provided him a damn good sustenance.
At the end of the day this hotel, which I had thought pretty decent, seemed pretty nonplussed by this whole thing and not the slightest bit embarrassed. Room out of service a bare minimum and no effort I could see to do anything about adjoining rooms or the source of this issue. I have to say I'm not sure I'll be staying there again!
P.S. I used to travel with a blacklight. I found one or two memorable things with it and honestly I no longer carry it - some things I just don't want to know!
Rain-X does what it's meant to and it wasn't designed for glasses so no it may not meet your needs. They do make an anti-fog product but I've not found it nearly as useful. Rain-X causes water to bead extremely well which when used in aircraft (original application) or on surfaces of cars that receive wind (not my back window) it's terrific. I seldom have need of my wipers at anything past a crawl. At slower speeds I simply focus past the droplets if its not raining hard enough to clear.
Sorry this might not work for your specific needs but it's a good product used properly. Maybe check out their anti-fog and hope for better success than I enjoyed...
These systems use crimped connectors, semi-rigid lines that prevent evap, and are pretty much sealed units. No leakage issues or plumbing woes. they also cannot compete with well built hand built cooling systems - which I run. they don't have the flexibility or the capacity for it - not yet. Done right leaks aren't an issue and even when it does happen there's no catastrophe - at least not in the instances I've had in years past. I'd love to know what these guys have used but I'm not sure it's nearly as cool as they want it to sound...
Prior to some additional tweaking and slowing down the clock on my CPU I was seeing extended temps as high as 90C on my computer. That's with water cooling :-) If these guys can shed heat better I'm all ears! that said I suspect this is marketing or some sort of water tension reducing chemical which I already use. Also, if this is as good as they say let's cool the GPU - THAT is the part that gets REALLY hot in a computer when it's doing serious crunching. The CPUs these days actually do pretty well.
If you'd like to reduce CPU heat that's fine too but do it with a sky high clock for those of us who use the cycles. The closer to ambient I can get my CPU the happier I am.
Mine is crunching now actually - temp is 67C, all cores maxxed, and will be for about 8-12 hours. video processing is a biatch...