I missed the meteors (living in Dallas = light pollution from hell) but like I said in an earlier post, a co-worker spotted one. He'll be excited to hear about lots of other people seeing equally stunning meteors.
I never said they were UFO's or aliens or whatever, could've been anything. To this day I still have no idea, but the sudden weather change was just way too coincidental. Like I said in my original post, I hardly ever mention it because people think it's a bullshit story. Guess I should've kept it to myself.
I saw something unbelievable one time, true story. About 5 friends and I and an old girlfriend were hiking one night at Turner Falls. We sat on top of this cave and watched the stars since it was such a clear night and we were accustomed to seeing just a few stars in the city. One person noticed a darker star that was moving. We got excited and everyone looked for it, and saw it. It was probably a satellite because it was moving in a straight line.
Here's where the craziness comes in. The more we looked at the sky, the more people started to see more satellites. In all there were probably 8 we could watch moving, all in vector paths from the horizon to some point in the sky. That point ended up being nearly directly overhead from us.
Once the dark stars reached a central point, they formed a slowly rotating circle. None of us could believe what we were seeing and we were all scared shitless. None of us could look away either because it was so unreal.
After less than ten minutes, we saw clouds blowing in hard from the south. The wind probably hit 20mph in a matter of minutes and we decided it was probably a good idea to leave. The dark stars were still circling overhead when the clouds fully obscured our view of the sky.
We drove fast and hard all the way home and nobody said much of anything. We beat the storm home and it was fairly clear outside except for the clouds coming up from the south where we had been. I don't know if anyone else besides myself has told the story but I don't blame them if they haven't. It sounds like bullshit to anyone who hears it, and it still freaks me out to this day.
Considering the distance away the meteor had to be to appear 1-2 inches in diameter, that's pretty damn big and significant. I'd say the usual meteor diameter is a few millimeters at best.
The weird thing is, I work with a guy that takes the bus every morning. He waits for the bus pretty early when the sun is just about to rise. He told me all about some super beautiful fireball he saw streaking across the sky about 2 weeks ago. I calmly explained that it was just a meteor but he kept insisting that it was different, he'd never seen one like this before. He went on and on about it, how it was a bright blue streak, etc. At the time, I wrote it off, but now it seems to be a phenomenon.
Guess there was relevance in his story after all. He'll love to hear about this story:)
Have you noticed alot of people's opposition to bombing Iraq? There's not a clear-cut reason why we should and the Pres is being so hush hush about it, it's hard (if not impossible) to drum up public support. I saw a girl 10 minutes ago with a 'No War in Iraq' shirt on, and I smiled to myself, realizing there must be some kind of tangible public opposition for a shirt like that to appear.
Oh that explains why Ariel Sharon, ex-terrorist, feels free to assault the Palestianian HQ of Arafat twice a year and hold him hostage. And that's why during this whole Israeli/Palestinian conflict, there have been around 180 Israeli deaths but over 1600 Palestinians killed. And that's why it's ok to target Palestianian bomb makers when an elementary school is letting out just down the street. BTW the bomb maker escaped with minor injuries.
Want proof? I did some research for you.
Sharon's no angel at http://www.counterpunch.org/sharon.html and http://www.socialistworker.org/2002-1/402/402_08_S haronIsTerrorist.shtml
We fill Israel's pockets at http://www.wrmea.com/html/us_aid_to_israel.htm and http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0152/solom on.ph p and http://www.peacenowar.net/Palestine/News/US aids.htm plus there are hundreds more. I could do a paper on this whole thing since there's so much information available.
Actually there's nothing in the law that says you have to buy a gun. If guns are given away, no problem, as long as the potential owners are filling out forms and waiting per the Brady Bill. If everything checks out, no problem.
Free guns argument= irrelevant.
Tools are tools. Don't think that Adobe gets sued because some kid Photoshops pictures of something he's auctioning on Ebay to get a better price. Don't think that Stanley tools get sued if someone gets bludgeoned to death with a Stanley hammer. Tools that can have multiple purposes are usually not privy to scrutiny. Password-cracking programs and network scanners aren't really considered illegal tools either, because they can be used for checking security leaks/holes.
As if Israel gives a shit what we think these days. "Keep the 6 billion in support coming every year, good ol' US of A, and we'll keep using 75% of that to buy weapons from you guys, per our agreement". By the way, Egypt gets the same deal, albeit a little smaller amount than 6 billion. Ahh...US peace accords. The free ride that fills your pockets with gold and your bases with nice jets.
Who would argue with a deal like that? 25% of 6 billion is still 1.5 billion to spend on whatever. I think I'll move to Israel and get a $500 dollar check just for being a citizen.. oh wait, the Jewish law is too strict, I can't ever snag that.
Ooooo, I like your idea for the shopping malls. I can just see the retailers and grocery store owners scrambling over each other just to pay the power bill for the parking lot.:) Maybe they'll setup a deal where people that park far away from the front of the stores get rewarded with charging while people that park closer don't.
I can just imagine there being power couplings embedded in the ground, and your car sending a wireless signal to remotely open them, then hooking up and charging itself.
Oh wait, we're still stuck with dinosaur fuel because the big oil companies can't handle a gigantic paradigm shift. I guess any large, monolithic company is loathe to change and risk hurting it's profits. Just like the record industry...if they would've gotten in on mp3 *early* they wouldn't be crying about losing money now. If oil companies help the automakers foot some of the R&D bills, they'll be able to keep their corner on the fuel market when the paradigm shift finally happens.
While I agree with the battery swapping 'gas' station idea, I doubt many manufacturers will go that route for the next decade or so. Most americans have a 220V plug in their garages (apt. dwellers are screwed) so jacking your car in overnight and driving on a full battery the next day should become the norm. Maybe eventually they'll create some kind of flash-charge battery that can take a lightning-bolt power hit and soak it all up instantly for quick charges. Put that in cars and in 'gas' stations and you'll have some serious cash.
"the reason you buy high quality name brand wheels is because (beside the "looks cool" and "got $$ buring holes everywhere") it gives a lower up-sprung weight"
Nine times out of ten your aftermarket rims are much heavier than your factory steelies. Even factory alloys tend to be pretty hefty. No, there are 2 reasons to buy aftermarket rims. 1. A larger rim (plus sized) yields a shorter (and usually stiffer) sidewall, and that cuts down on sidewall flex during hard cornering. 2. A larger rim usually has a larger internal diameter (the side that faces your brakes) so when you throw that Brembo Gran Turismo kit at all 4 corners your rims will bolt back on. Oh, and they look cooler..unless they're chrome.
How can you compare a fully electric car to a hybrid? I wouldn't compare the Honda Insight to this Kawasaki either even though it's part wimpy gasoline engine and part electric.
Get a leg up and start practicing your Chinese now. They've got the manpower, they've got the bombs, and they're getting the technology. If nothing else, the Japanese will never take them alive again like in WWII.
Then again, linux's goal of World Domination just might come as a hidden benefit.
Containing piracy? They really don't want to. Piracy is just an acceptable part of computing life in Asia and Russia. You can walk down the street in Thailand and buy OfficeXP or whatever for about $3. It comes printed and everything, they go to great lengths to make it look somewhat professional, rather than just some guy scribbling on the cd's with a permanent marker.
Piracy or not, that's not really their concern anymore (at least from a gov. standpoint). The Chinese gov adopted Linux as their OS of choice awhile back. Seems to me like they know what they're doing and doing it well.
Uh, who said anything about torque? He said the engine doesn't really make the car 'zoom'. He didn't even mention the turbo kit and the high performance kits.
These cars are only fair if the default Mustang beats the Honda, but the Honda with the turbo kit beats the Mustang.:)
Actually it is a pain in the ass to get, even over broadband. It's huge and Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, rarely chooses to setup mirrors. Everything comes from one connection, one group of servers, and that's super inefficient. My download squeaked by at about 10KB/sec or so, ebbing a flowing just a little for a long long time. My connection supports 150KB/sec sustained so you could imagine it was frustrating.
From time to time they have CNet or someone mirror important updates (like this one should be) but not this time.
Every day I see newer and more valuable benefits to linux distros like Mandrake. If Ibiblio is slow I can hit secsup.org or a dozen others.
Really, there's an Armagetron cd? Nice. I know there's a Frozen Bubble Mandrake-based ISO that's bootable.
Now what I really want is a nice bootable Xmame disc. I've got the whole mame rom collection and it'd be cool to shuck a dvd to a friends' house, throw it in the pc, and boot into a graphical frontend and start gaming.
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I missed the meteors (living in Dallas = light pollution from hell) but like I said in an earlier post, a co-worker spotted one. He'll be excited to hear about lots of other people seeing equally stunning meteors.
:)
And thanks for the praise.
This was a long time ago, pre-slashdot. Circa 1993 I believe.
I never said they were UFO's or aliens or whatever, could've been anything. To this day I still have no idea, but the sudden weather change was just way too coincidental. Like I said in my original post, I hardly ever mention it because people think it's a bullshit story. Guess I should've kept it to myself.
I saw something unbelievable one time, true story. About 5 friends and I and an old girlfriend were hiking one night at Turner Falls. We sat on top of this cave and watched the stars since it was such a clear night and we were accustomed to seeing just a few stars in the city. One person noticed a darker star that was moving. We got excited and everyone looked for it, and saw it. It was probably a satellite because it was moving in a straight line.
Here's where the craziness comes in. The more we looked at the sky, the more people started to see more satellites. In all there were probably 8 we could watch moving, all in vector paths from the horizon to some point in the sky. That point ended up being nearly directly overhead from us.
Once the dark stars reached a central point, they formed a slowly rotating circle. None of us could believe what we were seeing and we were all scared shitless. None of us could look away either because it was so unreal.
After less than ten minutes, we saw clouds blowing in hard from the south. The wind probably hit 20mph in a matter of minutes and we decided it was probably a good idea to leave. The dark stars were still circling overhead when the clouds fully obscured our view of the sky.
We drove fast and hard all the way home and nobody said much of anything. We beat the storm home and it was fairly clear outside except for the clouds coming up from the south where we had been. I don't know if anyone else besides myself has told the story but I don't blame them if they haven't. It sounds like bullshit to anyone who hears it, and it still freaks me out to this day.
Considering the distance away the meteor had to be to appear 1-2 inches in diameter, that's pretty damn big and significant. I'd say the usual meteor diameter is a few millimeters at best.
:)
The weird thing is, I work with a guy that takes the bus every morning. He waits for the bus pretty early when the sun is just about to rise. He told me all about some super beautiful fireball he saw streaking across the sky about 2 weeks ago. I calmly explained that it was just a meteor but he kept insisting that it was different, he'd never seen one like this before. He went on and on about it, how it was a bright blue streak, etc. At the time, I wrote it off, but now it seems to be a phenomenon.
Guess there was relevance in his story after all. He'll love to hear about this story
Have you noticed alot of people's opposition to bombing Iraq? There's not a clear-cut reason why we should and the Pres is being so hush hush about it, it's hard (if not impossible) to drum up public support. I saw a girl 10 minutes ago with a 'No War in Iraq' shirt on, and I smiled to myself, realizing there must be some kind of tangible public opposition for a shirt like that to appear.
Oh that explains why Ariel Sharon, ex-terrorist, feels free to assault the Palestianian HQ of Arafat twice a year and hold him hostage. And that's why during this whole Israeli/Palestinian conflict, there have been around 180 Israeli deaths but over 1600 Palestinians killed. And that's why it's ok to target Palestianian bomb makers when an elementary school is letting out just down the street. BTW the bomb maker escaped with minor injuries.
S haronIsTerrorist.shtml
m andm on.ph p and
Want proof? I did some research for you.
Sharon's no angel at http://www.counterpunch.org/sharon.html and http://www.socialistworker.org/2002-1/402/402_08_
We fill Israel's pockets at
http://www.wrmea.com/html/us_aid_to_israel.ht
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0152/solo
http://www.peacenowar.net/Palestine/News/US aids.htm plus there are hundreds more. I could do a paper on this whole thing since there's so much information available.
Actually there's nothing in the law that says you have to buy a gun. If guns are given away, no problem, as long as the potential owners are filling out forms and waiting per the Brady Bill. If everything checks out, no problem.
Free guns argument= irrelevant.
Tools are tools. Don't think that Adobe gets sued because some kid Photoshops pictures of something he's auctioning on Ebay to get a better price. Don't think that Stanley tools get sued if someone gets bludgeoned to death with a Stanley hammer. Tools that can have multiple purposes are usually not privy to scrutiny. Password-cracking programs and network scanners aren't really considered illegal tools either, because they can be used for checking security leaks/holes.
As if Israel gives a shit what we think these days. "Keep the 6 billion in support coming every year, good ol' US of A, and we'll keep using 75% of that to buy weapons from you guys, per our agreement". By the way, Egypt gets the same deal, albeit a little smaller amount than 6 billion. Ahh...US peace accords. The free ride that fills your pockets with gold and your bases with nice jets.
Who would argue with a deal like that? 25% of 6 billion is still 1.5 billion to spend on whatever. I think I'll move to Israel and get a $500 dollar check just for being a citizen.. oh wait, the Jewish law is too strict, I can't ever snag that.
Ooooo, I like your idea for the shopping malls. I can just see the retailers and grocery store owners scrambling over each other just to pay the power bill for the parking lot. :) Maybe they'll setup a deal where people that park far away from the front of the stores get rewarded with charging while people that park closer don't.
I can just imagine there being power couplings embedded in the ground, and your car sending a wireless signal to remotely open them, then hooking up and charging itself.
Oh wait, we're still stuck with dinosaur fuel because the big oil companies can't handle a gigantic paradigm shift. I guess any large, monolithic company is loathe to change and risk hurting it's profits. Just like the record industry...if they would've gotten in on mp3 *early* they wouldn't be crying about losing money now. If oil companies help the automakers foot some of the R&D bills, they'll be able to keep their corner on the fuel market when the paradigm shift finally happens.
While I agree with the battery swapping 'gas' station idea, I doubt many manufacturers will go that route for the next decade or so. Most americans have a 220V plug in their garages (apt. dwellers are screwed) so jacking your car in overnight and driving on a full battery the next day should become the norm. Maybe eventually they'll create some kind of flash-charge battery that can take a lightning-bolt power hit and soak it all up instantly for quick charges. Put that in cars and in 'gas' stations and you'll have some serious cash.
"the reason you buy high quality name brand wheels is because (beside the "looks cool" and "got $$ buring holes everywhere") it gives a lower up-sprung weight"
Nine times out of ten your aftermarket rims are much heavier than your factory steelies. Even factory alloys tend to be pretty hefty. No, there are 2 reasons to buy aftermarket rims. 1. A larger rim (plus sized) yields a shorter (and usually stiffer) sidewall, and that cuts down on sidewall flex during hard cornering. 2. A larger rim usually has a larger internal diameter (the side that faces your brakes) so when you throw that Brembo Gran Turismo kit at all 4 corners your rims will bolt back on. Oh, and they look cooler..unless they're chrome.
How can you compare a fully electric car to a hybrid? I wouldn't compare the Honda Insight to this Kawasaki either even though it's part wimpy gasoline engine and part electric.
What a moron she was. All she has to do is speak Chinese with her friends and english with everyone else.
Then again this is probably a b.s. story and offtopic to boot.
Get a leg up and start practicing your Chinese now. They've got the manpower, they've got the bombs, and they're getting the technology. If nothing else, the Japanese will never take them alive again like in WWII.
Then again, linux's goal of World Domination just might come as a hidden benefit.
Containing piracy? They really don't want to. Piracy is just an acceptable part of computing life in Asia and Russia. You can walk down the street in Thailand and buy OfficeXP or whatever for about $3. It comes printed and everything, they go to great lengths to make it look somewhat professional, rather than just some guy scribbling on the cd's with a permanent marker.
Piracy or not, that's not really their concern anymore (at least from a gov. standpoint). The Chinese gov adopted Linux as their OS of choice awhile back. Seems to me like they know what they're doing and doing it well.
China gets the big beautiful dragons and here in the US all we get are the damn Underpants Gnomes.
I think China got the long end of the stick on this one.
This one comes with a Hummer kit, but it may not be what you're looking for. ;)
Uh, who said anything about torque? He said the engine doesn't really make the car 'zoom'. He didn't even mention the turbo kit and the high performance kits.
:)
These cars are only fair if the default Mustang beats the Honda, but the Honda with the turbo kit beats the Mustang.
Hahaha, joke's on you, chump. I can see everything just fine with Konqueror 3.0.3. Time to upgrade, ye olde fashioned Slackware user.
Actually it is a pain in the ass to get, even over broadband. It's huge and Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, rarely chooses to setup mirrors. Everything comes from one connection, one group of servers, and that's super inefficient. My download squeaked by at about 10KB/sec or so, ebbing a flowing just a little for a long long time. My connection supports 150KB/sec sustained so you could imagine it was frustrating.
From time to time they have CNet or someone mirror important updates (like this one should be) but not this time.
Every day I see newer and more valuable benefits to linux distros like Mandrake. If Ibiblio is slow I can hit secsup.org or a dozen others.
"As for the desktop, heck, XP didn't even come with IE on the desktop."
I seem to recall an Internet icon that was tied to IE6 and alot of bragging about IE6 during the install process..maybe my machine is different.
I suggest we revert to 'olde-english' style that was popular back in the 20's-30's in America. Read some old Onion articles to see what I mean.
" More importantly though, what do thousands of dead bodies give a "good god damn" about?"
I dunno...faster respawn times?
*cue snare hit and duck*
thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week. Don't forget to tip your waittress.
Really, there's an Armagetron cd? Nice. I know there's a Frozen Bubble Mandrake-based ISO that's bootable.
Now what I really want is a nice bootable Xmame disc. I've got the whole mame rom collection and it'd be cool to shuck a dvd to a friends' house, throw it in the pc, and boot into a graphical frontend and start gaming.