"I could create total electronic chaos and another 9/11 with a homemade, explosively pumped, flux compression generator, and I can do it with data I found on the Internet, including some very helpful stuff from the Los Alamos nuclear lab web site."
The powers-that-be probably ignored you because you sound like Lex Luther.
If the Chechnyan rebels ever threaten my home town I'll remember you warned me.
If you wrote a story with the males and females with no real differences then what is the point of having sexes in your story? It sounds like you've created hermaphrodites. Where is the interest stemming from contrasts?
Judging from the amount of writing he has done and the similarity of many of his works I'd say a it wasn't so much a case of using a computer to write but that a computer was doing the writing (ref: 1984).
She was found to have committed accounting fraud on the company's quarterly revenue report and is now in jail sharing a cell with a woman from Worldcomm.
"The first plans for the new alloy are to be used in golf clubs, baseball bats, skis, and cell phone covers."
Are these the best uses they could think of? What are people doing with their cell phones that require a super-alloy anyway? Reentering the earth's atmosphere while making a call?
If you feel the need for super-alloy bat/club/skis maybe you should spend the money on lessons instead.
"...but it's still nice to see a major car audio manufacturer delivering what the public wants."
Since when did anyone have the burning need to write CDs in their car? You can't leave home for an hour without having to make a CD? Try leaving all the techno crap at home and try DRIVING for once.
I'd rather have a system based on ease of use (being able to make common fractions) than the pure coincidence of how many fingers we have. If you are still using your fingers/toes to count then maybe you should repeat the 1st grade.
You try doing 1/3 of 12 vs 10 quickly in your head. If you use a calculator then any number system is as good as any other and you might as well stick with 12.
The units of time also correspond to the system of degrees in a circle (or did they develop the other way around?). This makes sense when one considers that early time keeping was based on solar clocks (i.e. sundials).
You are insane. This is their country. They should be able to shoot off a whole frigg'n clip in the air for all I care without expecting some idiot 10,000ft up to call in a massive air strike (a B52 against a two-bit town for Christ's sake). If a million $+ trained pilot can't tell the difference between a few AK-47s and anti-aircraft artillery then he should be grounded before he starts bombing Canadian troops (oh yah, they have).
This was a wedding party. If we have so many super-duper cameras in the air and guys on the ground how come they weren't able to figure that out?
Last time I checked the area was supposed to be policed, not a battlefield. If they are going to kill civilians indiscriminately then they should change it to "Operation Ethnic Cleansing".
Sorry buddy but you come off as the ugly American, barging into a country screaming "They wouldn't be able to get away with this in Bunghole Texas!". I guess it is wrong to blow up people in skyscrapers in New York but if you are having a festival in a tiny town in Afganistan then it is just "Oops! Sorry!".
As for your lovely remark about "A mortal [sic] shell is a fitting end for a lunatic who thinks it's okay to shoot off his gun indiscriminately into the air." I guess all the children who were murdered in that attack had it coming to them, right? Funny how you fret about the Utah girl but can't summon an ounce of sympathy for anyone else but then again you are busy "kicking ass".
They could also check that the emails have valid return addresses. Also, how about putting a limit on how many emails a person can send per hour/minute? The average person isn't going to be sending more than a couple per minute. A spammer would be hard-pressed to deal with a 10 second delay per message or 3 messages per minute on an 80 million address spamming.
Instead of going after the spammers how about going after the people paying them to advertise their crapola? Make the merchant legally liable for the spam. They have to give you some sort way of contacting them unlike the spammers.
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Do we really need more sophisticated weapons to blow up caves and bomb wedding parties?
Well, the one I built is 30mm but it isn't a semi-auto so I guess it is ok.
All I got was a puddle of half-and-half and a wet lighter...oh, NON DAIRY creamer! Ooops...
Yes, capacitor banks are used for things such as magnetic toroid based fusion experiments. MIT has/had a room full of the things for that purpose.
"I could create total electronic chaos and another 9/11 with a homemade, explosively pumped, flux compression generator, and I can do it with data I found on the Internet, including some very helpful stuff from the Los Alamos nuclear lab web site."
The powers-that-be probably ignored you because you sound like Lex Luther.
If the Chechnyan rebels ever threaten my home town I'll remember you warned me.
Very slow news day I guess.
Me lose brain!? Uh oh!
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My gf for a number of years in college was a huge fan of PA's Xanth and Immortality series. I would never accuse her of being meek and submissive!
If you wrote a story with the males and females with no real differences then what is the point of having sexes in your story? It sounds like you've created hermaphrodites. Where is the interest stemming from contrasts?
Judging from the amount of writing he has done and the similarity of many of his works I'd say a it wasn't so much a case of using a computer to write but that a computer was doing the writing (ref: 1984).
She was found to have committed accounting fraud on the company's quarterly revenue report and is now in jail sharing a cell with a woman from Worldcomm.
Since it is brittle wouldn't this fe-ti alloy just shatter when hitting a hard surface? It would be like using a ceramic bullet.
"The first plans for the new alloy are to be used in golf clubs, baseball bats, skis, and cell phone covers."
Are these the best uses they could think of? What are people doing with their cell phones that require a super-alloy anyway? Reentering the earth's atmosphere while making a call?
If you feel the need for super-alloy bat/club/skis maybe you should spend the money on lessons instead.
"...but it's still nice to see a major car audio manufacturer delivering what the public wants."
Since when did anyone have the burning need to write CDs in their car? You can't leave home for an hour without having to make a CD? Try leaving all the techno crap at home and try DRIVING for once.
What's next, wood working while driving?
I'd rather have a system based on ease of use (being able to make common fractions) than the pure coincidence of how many fingers we have. If you are still using your fingers/toes to count then maybe you should repeat the 1st grade.
You try doing 1/3 of 12 vs 10 quickly in your head. If you use a calculator then any number system is as good as any other and you might as well stick with 12.
The units of time also correspond to the system of degrees in a circle (or did they develop the other way around?). This makes sense when one considers that early time keeping was based on solar clocks (i.e. sundials).
What the hell? I thought this was a democracy? If #3 is running loose then it is the fault of a lazy, disinterested public.
"Sure, restrict my freedoms as long as I'm safe from the boogyman at the mall."
Gee, what are they going to do? Ban them and then torture them in jail?
Comparing them to Al-Qaeda is ridiculous.
Millionaire pounds "me first" record into submission. A world yawns...
You are insane. This is their country. They should be able to shoot off a whole frigg'n clip in the air for all I care without expecting some idiot 10,000ft up to call in a massive air strike (a B52 against a two-bit town for Christ's sake). If a million $+ trained pilot can't tell the difference between a few AK-47s and anti-aircraft artillery then he should be grounded before he starts bombing Canadian troops (oh yah, they have).
This was a wedding party. If we have so many super-duper cameras in the air and guys on the ground how come they weren't able to figure that out?
Last time I checked the area was supposed to be policed, not a battlefield. If they are going to kill civilians indiscriminately then they should change it to "Operation Ethnic Cleansing".
Sorry buddy but you come off as the ugly American, barging into a country screaming "They wouldn't be able to get away with this in Bunghole Texas!". I guess it is wrong to blow up people in skyscrapers in New York but if you are having a festival in a tiny town in Afganistan then it is just "Oops! Sorry!".
As for your lovely remark about "A mortal [sic] shell is a fitting end for a lunatic who thinks it's okay to shoot off his gun indiscriminately into the air." I guess all the children who were murdered in that attack had it coming to them, right? Funny how you fret about the Utah girl but can't summon an ounce of sympathy for anyone else but then again you are busy "kicking ass".
"Cuba and Afghanistan for filtering news and distributing the propaganda they want their citizens to hear."
Ok, so we have:
Cuba - Government filters out news that offends government/ideology. People are left with pablum.
USA - Companies filter out or ignore news they consider unprofitable or offensive to LCD (lowest common denominator). People are left with pablum.
Two paths leading to the same place.
But then you'd get another spam telling you how to lose it in JUST ONE WEEK!
They could also check that the emails have valid return addresses. Also, how about putting a limit on how many emails a person can send per hour/minute? The average person isn't going to be sending more than a couple per minute. A spammer would be hard-pressed to deal with a 10 second delay per message or 3 messages per minute on an 80 million address spamming.
Instead of going after the spammers how about going after the people paying them to advertise their crapola? Make the merchant legally liable for the spam. They have to give you some sort way of contacting them unlike the spammers.