Screwing over who by doing what? Hey, it is a business not a friggin charity. If YOU want to send every penny that YOU make to the IRS and thus avoid the pot/kettle comparison, feel free to do so.
Also, whoever on this thread proposed that corporations are required to distribute earnings is confusing the tax category of not-for-profit with for-profit organizations. Perhaps from some socialist dilusion that every penny made by productive elements of the economy needs to go through the feds for redistribution to Liberal Arts and Sciences departments, as well as other government welfare programs.
Part of the problem is so many of the folks that *think* they are IT folks really are not.
Here in the Dulles Tech Corridore in VA, there are hundreds of out-of-work "IT" people, that barely graduated (or dropped out of) highschool, never got a certification, played all day on the 'net during the web boom, squandered opportunities to go to college, badmouthed everybody that bothered to go to school and get certified, know nothing about anything beyond being the admin of a few FreeBSD machines and are now on perpetual unemployment swearing that they know better than the folks that still have jobs at their old firms (if those firms exist at all).
For one, I am glad that I stayed in the Defense sector as a functional, rather than jumping the fence to the true tech side. My background is military and finance, two things that seem not to "fit" very well with the techies, but I still get to go gadget and application crazy at home.
Where I work, we need the techies for our proprietary apps and communications, but in our shop the functionals drive the system. Might have something to do with our being profitable too, since the focus is on the product (analysis and professional services) rather than on how many lines of code can be written in a month.
Techs routinly get hired here for $50,000 right from college and are not normally required to be EE or CS, but it is preferred. More Sr. people get hired too, but we do not have a massive turnover (any more) in the tech side, so they promote from within and give decent raises.
Now, we have a problem finding qualified functionals, but we do not have zads of people that watched a war movie or two claiming to be "military experts" out of work with an evaporating job market. Even an ex-private that was booted from the service knows not to apply here.
Might want to carry that analogy to the "IT professionals" that are not qualified to compete in the industry, if they will bother to listen to you between online games and dumpster diving.
The feds just can't quit, why the hell is it fed business if an infistation arrives to any State and that State is not allowed to eradicate the infevction?
Crap! Ignorance like this pisses me off so much! If you don't understand fictional mutation theory any better than that then just stick with that Quantum nonsense before I go back in time and blast you with LASERs from my eyes! OKAY?
Try Win98 or newer. I had no idea that Win95 does not support USB until I went to order my VisorPro (check my journal for that story), Handspring mentions that Win95 does not support USB and they do nopt support connectivity with Win95. Have not investigated further, but they sound like they know what they are talking about.
First, get one of those atomic clock receiver cards to keep the PC time right, then pick one of the dozens of scripts that will cover this page to do the work and output through a sound card to an amp and the existing speakers.
It makes me wonder, has she heard the flaw in this analogy pointed out, and ignored it? Or has she not had a real conversation with someone who is on the other side of the fence? Or is she trying to deliberately give a shoddy analogy in the hopes it gets by people?
She might think that she has to pay for advice of this quality.
LOL, I remember that. Did not check your link, but I remember them selling the Soviets an 8 axis laithe or some sort of machine equipment to make quiet propellers for ships and subs.
Returned a new Toshiba VCR at the time too, just paranoid I guess, thought they might not be able to repair it during their suspension from doing business in the USA (did not know how those things worked then).
Anyway, they got in trouble, paid a price and make great stuff now, from what I can see.
I have to agree and expand on the parent post. First, not sure there is anyplace "good" to get laptop reviews, so finding out from the/. crowd should work out better. In both cases you will get lots of words, but on/. you can hear from longterm users like me and others.
During the past 8 years I have owned two (that's all, 2) laptops, both are Toshiba. The first one was a T1100 and it kept working until I broke it tinkering inside the case.
The second one, a SatellitePro, is about 6 years old and has had almost daily use, only now starting to show some stress (cracks, etc) and has been to the shop once for a defective battery. Bought my son one when he was about 12 yrs old, he recently replaced it (Toshiba was still working fine) with a Dell. The Dell has been sent back for various repairs several times in the past year.
My SatellitePro is now my livingroom websurfing machine. Will be replacing it with another Toshiba this summer.
Also, at work I have used Panasonic (the CF series is great if you don't mind paying a premium for a ruggedized machine), also used Dell and NEC. Hated the Dell and NEC, both seemed slow for their processor and memory, but the biggest thing was they just did not feel "solid" like a Toshiba. Fo a long time I refused using stuff from the office and took my own machines everyplace.
The prices of Toshibas are reasonable, just make a casual comparison at Best Buy or a similar store.
What if you invite the person into your home without realizing what they are doing? THere are plenty of times you invite strangers into your home. Someone could plant a camera in your bedroom or bath when they came to install cable TV, or fix the plumbing.
I have not heard of a State where tampering with someone else's property is fully within the law. If they were invited in to install camers, fine, if not then not fine. Also, sounds like this law would prevent me from keeping an eye on guests without informing them.
What about hotels? Do you think it's ok if someone sticks cameras in hotels and films people?
Nope and that does not sound like this law addresses that at all either. States take care of it fine, even the Holiday Inn in Heinsville, GA made 60 min or 20/20 for doing the above example. The plaintiffs were successful.
There doesn't have to be breaking and entering involved.
EVERY State has dozens of laws beyond breaking and entry, that is why I phrased myself the way I did. How about fraud statutes? Yes, entering someone's home under false pretenses is a form of fraud, plenty of others to choose from!
I guess that individual states could solve this problem, but they don't appear to be handling the problem. Do you really think you should have to worry about what state you get a hotel room in and if they can legally film you while you're in the room?
You have to worry about that no matter what the law is, dontcha? It is against the law to steal, but I see no evidence of that stopping any time soon either.
So, the feds have nothing to add here, move along.
(a) outlaw filming someone via hidden camera without their permission except in public places,... The first part makes sense
This is handled at State level just fine already. Even the congresscritter mentioned on the radio that something like 40+ States do not have the law she proposed.
Said another way, something less than 10 States find a need for a law like this, they were perfectly capable of passing these laws without any help from the busybody DC crowd. For example, in TN I can record (audio, video, both) any conversation that I am party to and do not have to inform the other parties, i.e., one party concent. In Maryland, all parties to the conversation need to be informed (unless there is a warrant) that a conversation is being recorded. This proposal is just a federal extension of the same theme.
Apparently, in some States, one person can legally train a camera through the open window of another person's home. In others you can not. Sounds fair enough to me. I close the shades when I do not want others to see what is in my apartment and do not need a law to alleviate me of my responsibility.
If someone enters my place and plants a camera, I believe that every State has a dozen or so laws that the perpetrator can be charged with (breaking and entry, illegal entry, etc), that is if the cops bother to stop writing speeding tickets long enough to catch the criminal. Don't forget all of the civil charges.
Now, since States can and do pass laws like this one, what "makes sense" about the feds passing it for the whole country?
Yes friends, it is time for me to bring up my solar-hydorgen powered Jeep once again!
Do you know why people think that hydrogen powered vehicles are a long way off? It ain't the energy companies keeping it a secret, it is an unholy alliance between environmentalists and the government!
How do I know? Well, my Jeep is powered by solar derived hydrogen and I drive it almost daily (unless I am in a hydrogen powered aircraft of course). I purchase my hydrogen in liquid form, so do the airlines. My Jeep's birthday (to me) is tomorrow, 16 April, the day I liberated it from it's pen at the dealership. It will be 6 years old and has carried me over 226,000 miles now. Try that with a $5,000 "electric Honda deathtrap"!
Back to the point... The conspiracy has hidden this plentyful source of hydrogen by banding together with advertisers and disguising the name. Just so you are not duped, and to prove that I am being honest, here is the formula for the reaction: CxHy + O2 --> CO2 + H20 SEE? Simple! The big "H" on the left side is Hydrogen of course. It is bonded with some Carbon (the C on the left) to keep it in liquid form at surface tempratures and pressures, thus making it stay "in the container" so-to-speak until it is needed for combustion.
Not only does my Solar/Hydrogen Energy Plant, under the hood of the Jeep prouce water (more on that later), it also produces plant food! Yep, that little CO2 notation is something plants love! I try to drive up to pristine forrested areas as much as possible to feed the trees. Sometimes the trees love me so much they want to come home to my fireplace, but that is a different environmental service that I preform (free of charge too) and it can wait for another topic.
Ooops! I almost forgot to let everybody in on the secret places where I get the hydrogen for my Jeep! Liquid sunshine, aka, hydrogen fuel, is sold at places with funny names like Exxon/Mobil/Connico/Arco/Shell/Standard/Amaco... As a matter of fact, many of these places will clean the outside of your vehicle if you just come in and fill your hydrogen tank with at least $5 of the stuff! They use that left over H2O to scrub all the grime and crud off of your vehicle after a nice weekend of tree feeding.
Besides the great combustion properties of "liquid sunshine" (my favorite name for this miricle product), it is perfect for lubricating the parts that make your vehicle go, no matter what kind of power plant you run. Why do I call it solar-hydrogen or liquid sunshine? Because solar energy was used to combine the carbon and hydrogen of course! How much more environmentally sensitive can you get than that?
I could go on forever, but seriously, the energy companies have known about vast quantities of hydrogen in the earth's crust for ages. It is called "oil" and "natural gas" and is a lot easier to extract that chunks of granite. School children know of another surface source, it is called water and it is a lot easier to haul around than granite or hydrogen gas too.
Sometime soon I will tell y'all about my solar-hydrogen fireplace. The best BBQ ribs in my apartment complex are smoked there.
Ahh, thanks for the info and hope you get modded up as informative!
Does GPS work well up there?
GPS will work fine, should be little problem picking up 3+ satellites (only need a 4th for altitude and you already kow you are at sea level for real) and your GPS plots you to a real location that without the errors introduced by other nav. methods.
Well, he is referring to this hysteria that the north polar icecap has been reduced to slush already.
Obviously, from the photos on the websites mentioned (except for the LATimes hysterical sky falling/cap melting article), the area where the crossig is being attempted is solid and rugged.
As for others that expand the hysteria to all of this being caused by humans, well that is just another item for snopes.com to deal with.
The nympho chick is so HOTTTTT and that stupid dorky white guy commander is so funny!!!! oops, that's LEXX
Okay, the hot chicks are so kewell!!! and that stupid dorky boss they have is just dumb... oops, that's Baywatch
Okay, the robots are so funny, and that stupid dorky white guy just does not get his character... oops, that's MST3K
Okay, the hot chicks are in such good shape and wear tight stuff, strong legs are a real turnon for me, then that stupid dorky boss... oops, that is Pacific Blue.
Okay, the hot chicks always talking about sex and that one that is always wearing hot shoes, then there is the older one that is ALWAYS doing some sort of wild sex... oops, that is Sex and the City.
Okay, the hot chicks in the strip club and that big mean guy that is always having people killed... oops, that's Soprano's
Ummm, this show is on Friday night? Wait, I am usually out drinking then. Will have to build a DVR to figure out what you guys are talking about;-)
03-01-02 (31) STIPULATION and ORDER denying [8-1] motion to dismiss the claims pursuant to Rule 12(b)(2) and 56. The foregoing stipulation is so ordered; and whereas the foregoing stipulation, inter alia, releases plaintiff's claims against deft. Resler, the Motion to dismiss is denied as moot (signed/unsigned by Judge Denis Hurley, on 3-1-02) (lm) [Entry date 03-06-02]
Looks like the judge had at least one opportunity to get rid of this nonsense, but chose to make his court look busy instead. NOT by accepting the stipulation and settlement, but by seeing that the case is nonsense and throwing it out. Have seen this happen in domestic court numerous times (motion brought, some agreement between parties, whatever, judge hears it, throws it out and scolds the lawyers for trying to pull a fast one). Fed judges have an even wider path than TN Circuit Court judges in matters like this.
What the hell is wrong with this judge that they are actually wasting the time to hear this case to begin with?
I keep hearing, from all corners of the "judicial" system, that the courts are "clogged" then I hear about cases like this that can be thrown out at the whim of the judge.
If the judges would just start killing cases like this (and fining the lawyers that bring them, also fully within their power) then the "clogs" will be reduced.
If half of these TVs aren't even anywhere close to you--like on the other side of the country--then the company is paying too much for little benefit. The DC NBC station then charges huge amounts for the ad slots and then only big corporations can afford the time. This isn't fair for small business.
So what? Seriously!
From the article the issue at hand is consumer choice:
Current law provides that consumers can only have access to their local network channels, and prohibits Americans from watching local news and information originating from other areas of the country. EchoStar believes this law violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
When we get to the effect on advertising if the Supreme Court *allows* EchoStar to relay non-local programming, essentually that the rates will change.
Again, so what?
These companies are SUPPOSED to be paying advertising rates based on eyeballs and ears, NOT on some beurocratic ideal of "what is fair" and what is "not fair" to the local pizza joint.
The application that you are describing creates an artificially low viewer rate for some stations, thus an artifically low advertising card for those stations too.
If the WUSA audience is not the audience YOU want then you need to advertise elsewhere.
If you advertise to a local market then broadcast radio is where to drop your $, or ANOTHER TV station that draws the viewers you are trying to advertise to.
It works the same with other media, newspapers and magazines with wider circulation can (not required) command a higher rate for ads than some little weekly paper with limited circulation.
The problem here is the government trying to mess with a market that will work just fine if there were no beurocratic meddling to begin with.
Maybe it could provide enough "umph" to overcome this effect (from the bostic.com list):
http://www.sundaytelegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml ?x ml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F02%2F10%2Fwnasa10.xml
Researchers say Pioneer 10, which took the first close-up
pictures of Jupiter before leaving our solar system in 1983, is
being pulled back to the sun by an unknown force. The effect
shows no sign of getting weaker as the spacecraft travels deeper
into space, and scientists are considering the possibility that
the probe has revealed a new force of nature. http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/05/21/ gravity.m ystery/
"It's the same magnitude and the same direction, namely pointed
toward the sun. The force points to the sun in both cases," said
Anderson. http://physicsweb.org/article/world/12/ 1/5
The motion of these spacecraft is governed by the gravitational
fields of the known bodies in the solar system, and can be
calculated very accurately from general relativity. Anderson's
analysis shows a small but systematic departure from the
expected motion. Indeed, the spacecraft move as if they were
subject to a new, unknown force pointing towards the Sun. This
force imparts the same constant acceleration, ap, of about 10-7
cm s-2 to all three spacecraft, about ten orders of magnitude
less than the free-fall acceleration on Earth. Such a finding,
if it were not explained away by some mundane effect, would be
a major break with accepted physics.
Because he is parroting leftist "ideas" using the interesting vehicle of quoting from a convicted, wealthy, tax evader. From one example he supports his whole "theory."
Gives some insight to what/.ers percieve as truth, since everything with a valid point was modded down and his crap keeps a 2.
Thank you for the real stats, but I am sure you will be attacked for not being specific enough, or one of the AC chickens will be pouncing on your syntax.
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Ummm... on the highway in front of the NSA HQ the exit sign says NSA. After you make the exit, there is a big giant NSA sign with the seal and everything. Just past the Shell station.
Also, before every enterence to the CIA there is a sign that says "CIA Next Left" or "CIA Next Right (just pas the Shell station)." Dolly Madison Parkway I think, or is that Chain bridge Rd? Forgot since I don't drive by there any more.
NRO enterance is on a small road off Rt. 28 in Chantilly, VA (I can see it from my office cube). There are not any signs on 28 announcing it, but on the entrence side there is a big giant NRO sign and another NRO sign that marks the Contractor's entrence.
The Mapping and Imaging HQ has a big giant sign in front of it, on Sunrise Valley Rd. in Reston, VA, corner at Fairfax County Parkway with Dulles Tollroad on the other side. No signs on the tollroad for it though. Sprint runs AOL's backbone from right down Sunrise Valley with no sign (other than the address) out front. Right next to the INRI building. No Shell station nearby.
At "Station C" in Remington, VA (see "numbers stations") there is a big historical marker inside the fence, right by zads of antennas. Just a couple of miles past the Shell station.
Yes, all of the Shell station refrences are real and an odd "coincidence", since there is not a Shell station right by the NRO, nor is there one right by the Herndon NOC for VeriSign.
Hummm... watch out for the Shell stations of you want to find something kinda secret I gues
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1. Dividends have no relation to growth.
2. If you want a constant stream then sell fractional shares of stock that do not pay dividends, as the value of the stock rises.
3. Don't confuse equity with debt, believe it or not they are quite different.
Screwing over who by doing what? Hey, it is a business not a friggin charity. If YOU want to send every penny that YOU make to the IRS and thus avoid the pot/kettle comparison, feel free to do so.
Also, whoever on this thread proposed that corporations are required to distribute earnings is confusing the tax category of not-for-profit with for-profit organizations. Perhaps from some socialist dilusion that every penny made by productive elements of the economy needs to go through the feds for redistribution to Liberal Arts and Sciences departments, as well as other government welfare programs.
Part of the problem is so many of the folks that *think* they are IT folks really are not.
Here in the Dulles Tech Corridore in VA, there are hundreds of out-of-work "IT" people, that barely graduated (or dropped out of) highschool, never got a certification, played all day on the 'net during the web boom, squandered opportunities to go to college, badmouthed everybody that bothered to go to school and get certified, know nothing about anything beyond being the admin of a few FreeBSD machines and are now on perpetual unemployment swearing that they know better than the folks that still have jobs at their old firms (if those firms exist at all).
For one, I am glad that I stayed in the Defense sector as a functional, rather than jumping the fence to the true tech side. My background is military and finance, two things that seem not to "fit" very well with the techies, but I still get to go gadget and application crazy at home.
Where I work, we need the techies for our proprietary apps and communications, but in our shop the functionals drive the system. Might have something to do with our being profitable too, since the focus is on the product (analysis and professional services) rather than on how many lines of code can be written in a month.
Techs routinly get hired here for $50,000 right from college and are not normally required to be EE or CS, but it is preferred. More Sr. people get hired too, but we do not have a massive turnover (any more) in the tech side, so they promote from within and give decent raises.
Now, we have a problem finding qualified functionals, but we do not have zads of people that watched a war movie or two claiming to be "military experts" out of work with an evaporating job market. Even an ex-private that was booted from the service knows not to apply here.
Might want to carry that analogy to the "IT professionals" that are not qualified to compete in the industry, if they will bother to listen to you between online games and dumpster diving.
Yes, alleged tree huggers, mod me down.
The feds just can't quit, why the hell is it fed business if an infistation arrives to any State and that State is not allowed to eradicate the infevction?
Crap! Ignorance like this pisses me off so much! If you don't understand fictional mutation theory any better than that then just stick with that Quantum nonsense before I go back in time and blast you with LASERs from my eyes! OKAY?
Try Win98 or newer. I had no idea that Win95 does not support USB until I went to order my VisorPro (check my journal for that story), Handspring mentions that Win95 does not support USB and they do nopt support connectivity with Win95. Have not investigated further, but they sound like they know what they are talking about.
First, get one of those atomic clock receiver cards to keep the PC time right, then pick one of the dozens of scripts that will cover this page to do the work and output through a sound card to an amp and the existing speakers.
Everybody knows that all the best security folks advertise in the back of 2600 Magazine ;-)
It makes me wonder, has she heard the flaw in this analogy pointed out, and ignored it? Or has she not had a real conversation with someone who is on the other side of the fence? Or is she trying to deliberately give a shoddy analogy in the hopes it gets by people?
She might think that she has to pay for advice of this quality.
LOL, I remember that. Did not check your link, but I remember them selling the Soviets an 8 axis laithe or some sort of machine equipment to make quiet propellers for ships and subs.
Returned a new Toshiba VCR at the time too, just paranoid I guess, thought they might not be able to repair it during their suspension from doing business in the USA (did not know how those things worked then).
Anyway, they got in trouble, paid a price and make great stuff now, from what I can see.
Can I get Wi-Fi and Bluetooth on the new Toshibas?
Anything with PCMCIA slots will take a wireless card of whatever flavour you like. Last I looked all the Toshibas had 2 PCMCIA slots.
if anybody finds a model with more let me know!
I have to agree and expand on the parent post. First, not sure there is anyplace "good" to get laptop reviews, so finding out from the /. crowd should work out better. In both cases you will get lots of words, but on /. you can hear from longterm users like me and others.
During the past 8 years I have owned two (that's all, 2) laptops, both are Toshiba. The first one was a T1100 and it kept working until I broke it tinkering inside the case.
The second one, a SatellitePro, is about 6 years old and has had almost daily use, only now starting to show some stress (cracks, etc) and has been to the shop once for a defective battery. Bought my son one when he was about 12 yrs old, he recently replaced it (Toshiba was still working fine) with a Dell. The Dell has been sent back for various repairs several times in the past year.
My SatellitePro is now my livingroom websurfing machine. Will be replacing it with another Toshiba this summer.
Also, at work I have used Panasonic (the CF series is great if you don't mind paying a premium for a ruggedized machine), also used Dell and NEC. Hated the Dell and NEC, both seemed slow for their processor and memory, but the biggest thing was they just did not feel "solid" like a Toshiba. Fo a long time I refused using stuff from the office and took my own machines everyplace.
The prices of Toshibas are reasonable, just make a casual comparison at Best Buy or a similar store.
Bottom line: Toshibas always work.
What if you invite the person into your home without realizing what they are doing? THere are plenty of times you invite strangers into your home. Someone could plant a camera in your bedroom or bath when they came to install cable TV, or fix the plumbing.
I have not heard of a State where tampering with someone else's property is fully within the law. If they were invited in to install camers, fine, if not then not fine. Also, sounds like this law would prevent me from keeping an eye on guests without informing them.
What about hotels? Do you think it's ok if someone sticks cameras in hotels and films people?
Nope and that does not sound like this law addresses that at all either. States take care of it fine, even the Holiday Inn in Heinsville, GA made 60 min or 20/20 for doing the above example. The plaintiffs were successful.
There doesn't have to be breaking and entering involved.
EVERY State has dozens of laws beyond breaking and entry, that is why I phrased myself the way I did. How about fraud statutes? Yes, entering someone's home under false pretenses is a form of fraud, plenty of others to choose from!
I guess that individual states could solve this problem, but they don't appear to be handling the problem. Do you really think you should have to worry about what state you get a hotel room in and if they can legally film you while you're in the room?
You have to worry about that no matter what the law is, dontcha? It is against the law to steal, but I see no evidence of that stopping any time soon either.
So, the feds have nothing to add here, move along.
(a) outlaw filming someone via hidden camera without their permission except in public places, ... The first part makes sense
This is handled at State level just fine already. Even the congresscritter mentioned on the radio that something like 40+ States do not have the law she proposed.
Said another way, something less than 10 States find a need for a law like this, they were perfectly capable of passing these laws without any help from the busybody DC crowd. For example, in TN I can record (audio, video, both) any conversation that I am party to and do not have to inform the other parties, i.e., one party concent. In Maryland, all parties to the conversation need to be informed (unless there is a warrant) that a conversation is being recorded. This proposal is just a federal extension of the same theme.
Apparently, in some States, one person can legally train a camera through the open window of another person's home. In others you can not. Sounds fair enough to me. I close the shades when I do not want others to see what is in my apartment and do not need a law to alleviate me of my responsibility.
If someone enters my place and plants a camera, I believe that every State has a dozen or so laws that the perpetrator can be charged with (breaking and entry, illegal entry, etc), that is if the cops bother to stop writing speeding tickets long enough to catch the criminal. Don't forget all of the civil charges.
Now, since States can and do pass laws like this one, what "makes sense" about the feds passing it for the whole country?
Yes friends, it is time for me to bring up my solar-hydorgen powered Jeep once again!
Do you know why people think that hydrogen powered vehicles are a long way off? It ain't the energy companies keeping it a secret, it is an unholy alliance between environmentalists and the government!
How do I know? Well, my Jeep is powered by solar derived hydrogen and I drive it almost daily (unless I am in a hydrogen powered aircraft of course). I purchase my hydrogen in liquid form, so do the airlines. My Jeep's birthday (to me) is tomorrow, 16 April, the day I liberated it from it's pen at the dealership. It will be 6 years old and has carried me over 226,000 miles now. Try that with a $5,000 "electric Honda deathtrap"!
Back to the point... The conspiracy has hidden this plentyful source of hydrogen by banding together with advertisers and disguising the name. Just so you are not duped, and to prove that I am being honest, here is the formula for the reaction: CxHy + O2 --> CO2 + H20 SEE? Simple! The big "H" on the left side is Hydrogen of course. It is bonded with some Carbon (the C on the left) to keep it in liquid form at surface tempratures and pressures, thus making it stay "in the container" so-to-speak until it is needed for combustion.
Not only does my Solar/Hydrogen Energy Plant, under the hood of the Jeep prouce water (more on that later), it also produces plant food! Yep, that little CO2 notation is something plants love! I try to drive up to pristine forrested areas as much as possible to feed the trees. Sometimes the trees love me so much they want to come home to my fireplace, but that is a different environmental service that I preform (free of charge too) and it can wait for another topic.
Ooops! I almost forgot to let everybody in on the secret places where I get the hydrogen for my Jeep! Liquid sunshine, aka, hydrogen fuel, is sold at places with funny names like Exxon/Mobil/Connico/Arco/Shell/Standard/Amaco... As a matter of fact, many of these places will clean the outside of your vehicle if you just come in and fill your hydrogen tank with at least $5 of the stuff! They use that left over H2O to scrub all the grime and crud off of your vehicle after a nice weekend of tree feeding.
Besides the great combustion properties of "liquid sunshine" (my favorite name for this miricle product), it is perfect for lubricating the parts that make your vehicle go, no matter what kind of power plant you run. Why do I call it solar-hydrogen or liquid sunshine? Because solar energy was used to combine the carbon and hydrogen of course! How much more environmentally sensitive can you get than that?
I could go on forever, but seriously, the energy companies have known about vast quantities of hydrogen in the earth's crust for ages. It is called "oil" and "natural gas" and is a lot easier to extract that chunks of granite. School children know of another surface source, it is called water and it is a lot easier to haul around than granite or hydrogen gas too.
Sometime soon I will tell y'all about my solar-hydrogen fireplace. The best BBQ ribs in my apartment complex are smoked there.
Ahh, thanks for the info and hope you get modded up as informative!
Does GPS work well up there?
GPS will work fine, should be little problem picking up 3+ satellites (only need a 4th for altitude and you already kow you are at sea level for real) and your GPS plots you to a real location that without the errors introduced by other nav. methods.
Well, he is referring to this hysteria that the north polar icecap has been reduced to slush already.
Obviously, from the photos on the websites mentioned (except for the LATimes hysterical sky falling/cap melting article), the area where the crossig is being attempted is solid and rugged.
As for others that expand the hysteria to all of this being caused by humans, well that is just another item for snopes.com to deal with.
The nympho chick is so HOTTTTT and that stupid dorky white guy commander is so funny!!!! oops, that's LEXX
;-)
Okay, the hot chicks are so kewell!!! and that stupid dorky boss they have is just dumb... oops, that's Baywatch
Okay, the robots are so funny, and that stupid dorky white guy just does not get his character... oops, that's MST3K
Okay, the hot chicks are in such good shape and wear tight stuff, strong legs are a real turnon for me, then that stupid dorky boss... oops, that is Pacific Blue.
Okay, the hot chicks always talking about sex and that one that is always wearing hot shoes, then there is the older one that is ALWAYS doing some sort of wild sex... oops, that is Sex and the City.
Okay, the hot chicks in the strip club and that big mean guy that is always having people killed... oops, that's Soprano's
Ummm, this show is on Friday night? Wait, I am usually out drinking then. Will have to build a DVR to figure out what you guys are talking about
you read the article right?
Actually, yes I did and more!
i don't believe it has gone before a judge yet.
Well, the record disagrees with your belief:
I read Pets Forum Docket, after following links from the article, to find this:
Not yet docketed: Stipulation of Settlement and Dismissal with Prejudice.
03-01-02 (31) STIPULATION and ORDER denying [8-1] motion to dismiss the claims pursuant to Rule 12(b)(2) and 56. The foregoing stipulation is so ordered; and whereas the foregoing stipulation, inter alia, releases plaintiff's claims against deft. Resler, the Motion to dismiss is denied as moot (signed/unsigned by Judge Denis Hurley, on 3-1-02) (lm) [Entry date 03-06-02]
Looks like the judge had at least one opportunity to get rid of this nonsense, but chose to make his court look busy instead. NOT by accepting the stipulation and settlement, but by seeing that the case is nonsense and throwing it out. Have seen this happen in domestic court numerous times (motion brought, some agreement between parties, whatever, judge hears it, throws it out and scolds the lawyers for trying to pull a fast one). Fed judges have an even wider path than TN Circuit Court judges in matters like this.
What the hell is wrong with this judge that they are actually wasting the time to hear this case to begin with?
I keep hearing, from all corners of the "judicial" system, that the courts are "clogged" then I hear about cases like this that can be thrown out at the whim of the judge.
If the judges would just start killing cases like this (and fining the lawyers that bring them, also fully within their power) then the "clogs" will be reduced.
If half of these TVs aren't even anywhere close to you--like on the other side of the country--then the company is paying too much for little benefit. The DC NBC station then charges huge amounts for the ad slots and then only big corporations can afford the time. This isn't fair for small business.
So what? Seriously!
From the article the issue at hand is consumer choice:
Current law provides that consumers can only have access to their local network channels, and prohibits Americans from watching local news and information originating from other areas of the country. EchoStar believes this law violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
When we get to the effect on advertising if the Supreme Court *allows* EchoStar to relay non-local programming, essentually that the rates will change.
Again, so what?
These companies are SUPPOSED to be paying advertising rates based on eyeballs and ears, NOT on some beurocratic ideal of "what is fair" and what is "not fair" to the local pizza joint.
The application that you are describing creates an artificially low viewer rate for some stations, thus an artifically low advertising card for those stations too.
If the WUSA audience is not the audience YOU want then you need to advertise elsewhere.
If you advertise to a local market then broadcast radio is where to drop your $, or ANOTHER TV station that draws the viewers you are trying to advertise to.
It works the same with other media, newspapers and magazines with wider circulation can (not required) command a higher rate for ads than some little weekly paper with limited circulation.
The problem here is the government trying to mess with a market that will work just fine if there were no beurocratic meddling to begin with.
Maybe it could provide enough "umph" to overcome this effect (from the bostic.com list):
l ?x ml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F02%2F10%2Fwnasa10.xml/ gravity.m ystery// 1/5
http://www.sundaytelegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtm
Researchers say Pioneer 10, which took the first close-up
pictures of Jupiter before leaving our solar system in 1983, is
being pulled back to the sun by an unknown force. The effect
shows no sign of getting weaker as the spacecraft travels deeper
into space, and scientists are considering the possibility that
the probe has revealed a new force of nature.
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/05/21
"It's the same magnitude and the same direction, namely pointed
toward the sun. The force points to the sun in both cases," said
Anderson.
http://physicsweb.org/article/world/12
The motion of these spacecraft is governed by the gravitational
fields of the known bodies in the solar system, and can be
calculated very accurately from general relativity. Anderson's
analysis shows a small but systematic departure from the
expected motion. Indeed, the spacecraft move as if they were
subject to a new, unknown force pointing towards the Sun. This
force imparts the same constant acceleration, ap, of about 10-7
cm s-2 to all three spacecraft, about ten orders of magnitude
less than the free-fall acceleration on Earth. Such a finding,
if it were not explained away by some mundane effect, would be
a major break with accepted physics.
Because he is parroting leftist "ideas" using the interesting vehicle of quoting from a convicted, wealthy, tax evader. From one example he supports his whole "theory."
/.ers percieve as truth, since everything with a valid point was modded down and his crap keeps a 2.
Gives some insight to what
Thank you for the real stats, but I am sure you will be attacked for not being specific enough, or one of the AC chickens will be pouncing on your syntax.
Ummm... on the highway in front of the NSA HQ the exit sign says NSA. After you make the exit, there is a big giant NSA sign with the seal and everything. Just past the Shell station.
Also, before every enterence to the CIA there is a sign that says "CIA Next Left" or "CIA Next Right (just pas the Shell station)." Dolly Madison Parkway I think, or is that Chain bridge Rd? Forgot since I don't drive by there any more.
NRO enterance is on a small road off Rt. 28 in Chantilly, VA (I can see it from my office cube). There are not any signs on 28 announcing it, but on the entrence side there is a big giant NRO sign and another NRO sign that marks the Contractor's entrence.
The Mapping and Imaging HQ has a big giant sign in front of it, on Sunrise Valley Rd. in Reston, VA, corner at Fairfax County Parkway with Dulles Tollroad on the other side. No signs on the tollroad for it though. Sprint runs AOL's backbone from right down Sunrise Valley with no sign (other than the address) out front. Right next to the INRI building. No Shell station nearby.
At "Station C" in Remington, VA (see "numbers stations") there is a big historical marker inside the fence, right by zads of antennas. Just a couple of miles past the Shell station.
Yes, all of the Shell station refrences are real and an odd "coincidence", since there is not a Shell station right by the NRO, nor is there one right by the Herndon NOC for VeriSign.
Hummm... watch out for the Shell stations of you want to find something kinda secret I gues
yea, but i think the one they speak of in the article is in herndon. i run into people that work there in reston all the time.