Those garage door openers are operating under Part 15 of the FCC regulations, which permit you to use a frequency normally assigned to someone else as long as you don't interfere with the assigned user. In this case, "someone else" is the Air Force.
If you have one of those gadgets, read the little booklet that came with it and you'll see this spelled out. If you interfere with the Air Force, you'll have to turn your unit off; if they interfere with you, you get sympathy. That's the deal you signed up for when you bought a low-priced piece of hardware.
Oh, by the way, your wireless router operates under Part 15 too.
...had a much lower-tech version at least 48 years ago, and still does AFAIK. Dorm residents used a pedestrian tunnel under the Atlanta Expressway (believe it's I-75 now) to reach Duffy's Tavern, the one bar in the neighborhood that kept the cops greased so it could serve beer to underage students. It was about a quarter mile walk with no legitimate pissers anywhere, so we just used the tunnel. Whenever the smell got overpowering, the fire department would flush it with the big hose.
The mongo ski resort at Vail CO started out the same way: founder Pete Seibert bought up all the land in the Vail Valley from ranchers who thought he was opening a hunting and fishing preserve.
I had substantially the same experience on a flight from Miami to San Juan. I sat next to a guy whose appearance...well, if he were an actor auditioning for the part of a sleazy lawyer, he'd have been turned down as too stereotypical. He did indeed turn out to be a lawyer, and spent much of the flight reading affidavits about a lawsuit.
Seems a lady had taken a fall aboard a cruise ship in rough weather, and was suing the company. I cheerfully read page after page of information about weather forecasts, course changes, speed changes, what the captain could have done, and on and on...it was all laid right out on his tray table, even overhanging my turf. Some of that information would have been worth money to the right person.
Hey, you can't blame the Scouts. All they want to do is preserve their core activities: hanging out in all-male groups, dressing up in matching outfits, doing arts & crafts and being rewarded with jewelry. Gays just aren't cut out for that stuff.
rj
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Interesting to note the difference in public esteem between him and Newton at the times of their deaths...if you visit Westminster Abbey and see the elaborately sculpted tomb of Newton, and step a little to your left, you're standing on Darwin.
The value of those pictures is a pure bubble anyway, if you can willingly give a $10k or so for a mere painting
Actually, a Klimt went for $100+ mil not long ago, but you're right. Here's a scenario you read about once in a while:
-Prestigious museum acquires a painting by the great Renaissance artist Antonio Fettucine for $10 million.
-Grad student examines the painting with high-tech equipment, and announces it's actually the work of Fettucine's star pupil Vittorio Linguine.
-Museum finds its painting is now worth only $1 million and screams bloody murder.
Why?
If Fettucine's work is worth ten times as much as Linguine's, he must be that much better, right? But how did anybody know he was, if the only way to tell them apart is with, like, neutrinos and shit?
Ummm...one truck, 500 trips over a couple of years?
rj
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It seems to me that it ought to be possible to design microprocessor-controlled rocket belts that would be much easier and safer to fly than those of the 1960s.
OK, now the next problem is to find a fuel light enough that you can stand up and walk around with more than 20 seconds' worth hanging on your back.
Ironically, dynamite never had much of a career as a military explosive. Its energy density is too low, so a shell full of it won't make a very big bang, and while it's highly safe to use, it's pretty dangerous to manufacture. Military services adopted TNT by the end of the 19th century.
Prior to dynamite, nitroglycerin was the only explosive with enough brisance to break rock, and hard-rock miners died like flies using it. Dynamite is essentially stabilized nitroglycerin, and it was revolutionary as an industrial explosive.
My son had hearing like that when he was about 10...our dentist had two offices on opposite sides of town and one day I had to take him to the alternate location. He couldn't stay in the building, complaining of an earsplitting whistle, apparently coming from the A/C.
In the days before general anesthesia, surgeons used to pride themselves on their ability to take out an appendix or a bladder stone in 15-30 seconds...
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Also gives 'em something to tack onto next year's budget request...
rj
Those garage door openers are operating under Part 15 of the FCC regulations, which permit you to use a frequency normally assigned to someone else as long as you don't interfere with the assigned user. In this case, "someone else" is the Air Force.
If you have one of those gadgets, read the little booklet that came with it and you'll see this spelled out. If you interfere with the Air Force, you'll have to turn your unit off; if they interfere with you, you get sympathy. That's the deal you signed up for when you bought a low-priced piece of hardware.
Oh, by the way, your wireless router operates under Part 15 too.
rj
...and you'll blubber with joy to get a cubicle.
rj
rj
...had a much lower-tech version at least 48 years ago, and still does AFAIK. Dorm residents used a pedestrian tunnel under the Atlanta Expressway (believe it's I-75 now) to reach Duffy's Tavern, the one bar in the neighborhood that kept the cops greased so it could serve beer to underage students. It was about a quarter mile walk with no legitimate pissers anywhere, so we just used the tunnel. Whenever the smell got overpowering, the fire department would flush it with the big hose.
rj
The mongo ski resort at Vail CO started out the same way: founder Pete Seibert bought up all the land in the Vail Valley from ranchers who thought he was opening a hunting and fishing preserve.
rj
Gotta watch those screenwriters:
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http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Isoroku_Yama
rj
...Freshman Dorm Custodian?
rj
I had substantially the same experience on a flight from Miami to San Juan. I sat next to a guy whose appearance...well, if he were an actor auditioning for the part of a sleazy lawyer, he'd have been turned down as too stereotypical. He did indeed turn out to be a lawyer, and spent much of the flight reading affidavits about a lawsuit.
Seems a lady had taken a fall aboard a cruise ship in rough weather, and was suing the company. I cheerfully read page after page of information about weather forecasts, course changes, speed changes, what the captain could have done, and on and on...it was all laid right out on his tray table, even overhanging my turf. Some of that information would have been worth money to the right person.
rj
Hey, you can't blame the Scouts. All they want to do is preserve their core activities: hanging out in all-male groups, dressing up in matching outfits, doing arts & crafts and being rewarded with jewelry. Gays just aren't cut out for that stuff.
rj
Interesting to note the difference in public esteem between him and Newton at the times of their deaths...if you visit Westminster Abbey and see the elaborately sculpted tomb of Newton, and step a little to your left, you're standing on Darwin.
rj
That, of course, assumes that the superjocks will be able to get it up after sucking down all that chemistry...
rj
...is that people buy it:
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http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.as
rj
Actually, a Klimt went for $100+ mil not long ago, but you're right. Here's a scenario you read about once in a while:
-Prestigious museum acquires a painting by the great Renaissance artist Antonio Fettucine for $10 million.
-Grad student examines the painting with high-tech equipment, and announces it's actually the work of Fettucine's star pupil Vittorio Linguine.
-Museum finds its painting is now worth only $1 million and screams bloody murder.
Why?
If Fettucine's work is worth ten times as much as Linguine's, he must be that much better, right? But how did anybody know he was, if the only way to tell them apart is with, like, neutrinos and shit?
rj
Ummm...one truck, 500 trips over a couple of years?
rj
OK, now the next problem is to find a fuel light enough that you can stand up and walk around with more than 20 seconds' worth hanging on your back.
rj
rj
Ironically, dynamite never had much of a career as a military explosive. Its energy density is too low, so a shell full of it won't make a very big bang, and while it's highly safe to use, it's pretty dangerous to manufacture. Military services adopted TNT by the end of the 19th century.
Prior to dynamite, nitroglycerin was the only explosive with enough brisance to break rock, and hard-rock miners died like flies using it. Dynamite is essentially stabilized nitroglycerin, and it was revolutionary as an industrial explosive.
rj
His name isn't Edward Teller. It's Edward Tellerfatherofthehydrogenbomb...
rj
My son had hearing like that when he was about 10...our dentist had two offices on opposite sides of town and one day I had to take him to the alternate location. He couldn't stay in the building, complaining of an earsplitting whistle, apparently coming from the A/C.
rj
Guess that explains the guy at the bar last night:
[hic]
-It's not what you think.
[hic]
-It's not what you think.
[hic]
-It's not...oh the hell with it, gimme my tab.
rj
He'd have been a much wealthier man today if he'd said "Wow, I could really use a Budweiser right now!"
rj
...they mean UP.
rj
Get away from her, you bitch!!!
rj
In the days before general anesthesia, surgeons used to pride themselves on their ability to take out an appendix or a bladder stone in 15-30 seconds...
rj