placing bits on end instead of lying them parallel on the disc surface
This one threw me off. Is the use of "lie" instead of "lay" due to low literacy, or does it mean that the data will be inverted - "lies", so to speak? The article doesn't mention encoding.
freenet still isint there yet, but feel free to tell us when.
You said it! I just went to download it, and it is not available on any of the mirrors. I don't know whether they changed the version and didn't update the mirror links, or somebody got to them and made them take it down (even in Chekoslovakia?).
First post to touch on my point. SCO is desperately trying to scrounge up the last dregs of revenue in exchange for the last dregs of their reputation and goodwill. Linux is going to be there whether it makes money or not. The GNU environment that uses it will be there whether it makes money or not. Both are making money for people even though they can't directly charge for it. In a couple of years, SCO will be some competent company's redheaded stepchild, and their users will be a pure revenue drain as the OS sunsets. They can move now, or they can pay licensing for 20 or so months, THEN move. Depending on the business, there are advantages to both paths. This is the environment in which they must evaluate their decision.
I wonder if Proctor & Gamble have anything in their contract to let them out of paying if comments like this were attached as replies to such perfectly-staged shills as the grandparent and great-grandparent comments.
To the editors' credit, I just turned on score display, and see that the parent post isn't moderated to oblivion - in fact, sports an informative. I may very well be wrong, and the article is not a shill, but rather a very ill-considered legitimate question. It's just that now, with the push to be profitable, I could see the temptation to manipulate the system. One other note - the article is off the front page, and not in the "older stuff", while the article before and after it chronologically, are still on the front page. I'm guessing that intentional or not, this one burned.
The article calls a PHB "something a little less expendable"
The economy is leaning out (internal combustion engine expression). They're still cutting jobs while production is going up. I'm guessing that this is mostly by eating their seed stock, but there's still a lot of pressure to eliminate non-contributing positions. One of my few consolations in this current layoff is that the fool who chose me as the person to cut within the two choices he had, then had to pay to relocate a much less-competent replacement for me(the company never brings back discarded talent) is now in a death spiral caused mostly by that stupidity.
I think the current pressure will make the PHB an endangered species. We'll still have good managers (mine got booted in the wave before me, and I spent two months unmanaged), but actual PHB-types will finally be doing what they're qualified for - closing shift at Booger Fling.
capability at putting fires out is poor
CO2 works by smothering the fire with overwhelming volume of noncombustable gas. You could use argon just as easily, though more expensively (more expensive to start with, not as cheap to store compactly). Spraying CO2 at a bonfire is completely pointless. Flooding a room with it while venting the top of the room stops all air-sustained combustion, instantly. Hotspots will reignite when air hits them, so you have to wait for them to cool, and cut the power to any electrically-powered hotspots, before you ventilate and enter the room. However, nobody can reasonably complain about environmental effects of its use, and it has absolutely no detrimental effects on the equipment.
Sure, insurance will replace stuff damaged by dust, water, or foam fire supression, but you'll be back up and running a lot sooner if you don't have to replace in the first place. Rebuilding a data center and loading up to the last backup takes significant time, plus you lose all the work since the backup. Enterprise-class databases can run tape transaction logs as they go, and you can have them writing offsite and reapply them, sure, but if you're that advanced, the time spent getting equipment back in is probably crippling anyway. That's why critical work is done with two geographically-separated duplicate facilities, the backup location is mirroring the primary database in realtime, and BOTH are fully fire-protected.
In business, when you tell your moneymakers that they'll have to wait while you replace equipment and restore backup, even if you can get it done in a few hours, you've lost face. The more functionality you can provide, the happier they are.
Disclaimer: Being a consistent hero with no backup at the most successful site in a huge, profitable company provides no defense against layoff when upper management micromanages functions that they don't even know about.
Bandwidth IS directly proportional to frequency
What?
<SARCASM>Wow! I can do morse code at only about 8wpm (which equates to about 40 baud) on 80M. Does that mean that I can do 856wpm on 70cm? ...and WOW! I can crank up my 1200baud packet system to 3600baud by just switching from 2M to 70cm. Thank you, oh great radio genius!</SARCASM>
Sorry, but that's such an offensively ignorant statement from a member of a very technically-savvy group that I have to go off on it a bit. Frequency occupied by a signal indicates how much data could be fit in it. Depending on your modulation scheme, you'll reach some significant fraction of that bandwidth. In a perfect propogation environment, with perfect components on both ends, that fraction can asymptotically approach 1. For relatively-reliable real-world links, you'll be running well below 50% of the theoretical throughput, to make it easier for the receiver to discriminate the actual states of the transmitter. Ethernet is an example of a protocol expecting near-perfect transmission. Ever had a 100MBps link fail back to 10 because of crappy terminations, or had any link degraded? That's because individual packets are simply not getting resolved by the receivers, due to substandard signal-to-noise ratio - noise leaking into the cable and/or signal leaking out.
That's why 802.11 links drop in speed, so the reciever can sort of go "Is that bit off or on? It sounded on, but it's really not much different from the static. Well, it keeps looking like it's on. Yes, that's definitely '1'", while at higher speeds, there's less chance to discrimnate the signal from the noise.
Have you ever worked in a really loud factory? You can't understand anything coming over the PA system, but the signal tones sent over the same system at the same volume in the same environment are perfectly understandable.
Now, if systems used everything from DC to their operating frequency, a 2.4Ghz system would have about 2.5x the potential bandwidth as a 900Mhz system. In fact, however, the systems use a slice of spectrum in the range of their stated frequency. I don't know the amount of spectrum used by these systems, but I know some things about the frequencies and the environment they work in.
First: In general, path loss increases with frequency. My beam has nearly 3 times the gain on 70cm as it does on 2M, but using the same power, I can work stations much farther away with 2M than 70cm.
Second:there are specific absorptions in different frequency ranges. Since the early 1970s, at least, many households have made use of the strong water absorption band around 2.4Ghz to heat food in microwave ovens. That means two things A)2.4Ghz performance is significantly affected by humidity. B)There are ubiquitous high-power ISM devices in the band. Why do you think most 802.11b gear has a setting to work around microwave ovens?
In the end, you're probably going to be using a system with throughput capability many times larger than the amount you are to receive, which will allow for big sags in performance to not hurt you unless they coincide with peaks in demand. I would recommend going for the one with the smaller collision domain. I bought into Sprint Broadband Direct, which uses large swaths of licensed spectrum (no significant interference). This system operates from single central systems covering vast geographic areas - mine is a mountain 16 miles away, and i'm near the fringe. That's 804 square miles. Half of it is blocked by the mountains behind it, but the sector it does cover is heavy population (north of Denver). That means that even though the RF transit time to the tower is insignificant, My unit has to wait in line for a long time for its turn to transmit, giving me ping times ranging from 100ms (quite acceptable) to 5 seconds (no interractive work over VPN, I can tell you). Mesa networks has come into the area now, using 802.11B and gain antennae. Base stations are on poles (cell sites, phon
1 week on, $numberofemployees - 1 off
manager intervenes in cases where a person is about to work the the second holiday in a row, in which case the person being screwed trades with the person before him in the rotation.
Apply appropriate further perturbations in cases where the holidays worked differential exceeds 2.
Incidentally, in case somebody's looking for a really good unix admin to cover a holiday or something...?
A relief? Our patent system has become a joke... Do something that's been done for all of recorded history, but involve a computer in some peripheral way, or explain how you can do it to make money, and to the dimwitted patent examiners, it's suddenly innovative and non-obvious. Fortunately, in this case, the applicant is not a gargantuan corporation, so it's unlikely that there'd be anyone worth suing that's enough smaller than him for him to sue them out of existence for carrying less than a full roll of tape at one time.
My, what an ugly sentence!
...windoze and unix works well, requires only one firewall hole at the client, though you may want to have one of your guys run a "look who's listening" server - add a port forward for that one, and one for a reflector if you want to use one, but one of those suffices for all the clients. It's not polished - no voice mixing, for instance, but it is very solid.
First, let me state that I'm sure Hormel doesn't mind being associated with UCE if it's pornographic UCE, especially gay kiddie porn, as they have already publicly done so with the San Francisco-based Hormel Library.
I suggest that we continue to call all unwanted email SPAM (make sure we get the case right, so as to match the way they describe their trademark), and good mail can be called Treet. Treet is just as good as SPAM, and none of the proceeds go towards the promotion of child molestation. Let them stop products from using the name, while casual conversation, which is not bound by copyright law, specifically associates them with bad things, in comparison to their competitors.
I don't care if James Hormel wants to get sexual gratifaction with another man. By the time somebody's grown up, if that's what they like, it's sad, but not as sad as denying them the right to love who they love. It's his predilection for young boys, and particularly his work to legitimize that pathological condition, that removes him from the ranks of humanity.
I'm not familiar with the specific unit, but assume it does not have forced convection, or you probably wouldn't be having this problem. Most of these units are rectangular, with one dimension much longer than the other two. Figure out which end is hotter while running laying flat. Open it up and drill a few air holes on each small end. Be careful with drill shavings. If you can get the case completely isolated from the electronics, that's best. Put the hot end down, or either one, if the hotspot is centered, and raise the end a bit to let air reach the holes.
This will maximize thermal convection. If that's still not enough, you'll have to arrange forced air... a little CPU fan stuck over the holes will suffice.
Dasher lets you soft of "steer a course" through what you want to say, which is pretty handy when you need to create a long stream of text. In the current incarnation, it seems to be lc alphas and the space, only, but to blow out the bulk of your text, and insert punctuation and formatting later, it could be very handy. With use, it learns the statistical distribution of letter order, so that the easiest things to write are things you write a lot... when you pass through a "J", vowels are big and easy to hit, while consonants are tiny little slits. You'll see what I mean when you play with it. I don't use it myself, aside from seeing what it can do so I can help others use it if needed, but it's definitely what I would use if I needed to write a book and had only limited use of my hands.
Translation?
Sure. ...and I quote"
first
That's all I have to say about that. Now, on to the next item.
radio
That's all I have to say about that. Now, on to the next item.
post
I doubt that's what he meant, but that's what he said. Some morse input software uses the _BT_ prosign as a space.
I've made the 720x540 stream
availableon edonkey/overnet. It's got lots of info about who did it inside it, so I figure the authors won't feel cheated on copyright. It's so tedious anyway, I doubt that it'll be wildly popular, but the fact that it can be done at all is interesting to see.
I haven't gotten the python modules right for bittorrent on RH9 or I'd set that up, too.
People can't don't chose their natural physical features. Behaviours are more debateable. I'm personally creeped out by gay people, in much the same way I find booger-eaters repulsive, but I refuse to demand that two people in love stay apart. It's unnatural and unhealthy, but unless we're also going to enforce prohibition on alcohol and tobacco, that issue is irrelevant.
Oh, and "non-conformists" my ass! It's conformity with their own peer group, or at least one with which they want to identify. Pointless self-mutilation is a much greater act of conformity than getting an education, getting married, taking a job, buying a house, etc., in that it has no intrinsic value, with no purpose except to fit in. In some primitive cultures, these marks are important, and actually confer benefits. In any culture, a mark as a dramatic, irrevocable demonstration of commitment to some positive value, like your country, your wife, etc., is acceptable (maybe not universally, but generally). But, it makes no sense to permanently commit yourself to a useless fad proves POOR IMPULSE CONTROL, in much the same way the referenced tattoo does.
- trains you, actually, and the sociopathy is a relative thing. It depends on who he's relating to.
About half of my hobby activity is technical - messing with various computer systems, ham radio, astronomy (dormant - mirror has been missing for 3 years). Otherwise, playing with my son (4, autistic), trying to give my daughter a fair share of attention, jeeping around off-road (with both kids), and hiking and climbing (my only solitude). Oh, and grinding away my hope and self-esteem futilely trying to find a job. I think "over-qualified" is just a euphemism for "old".
... the more obvious the better. There's nothing permanent voluntary disfigurement to enable people to instantly identify a pathetic loser. "I'm a wild, free spirit! To show my individuality, I'll be different in exactly the same way everybody I hang out is." It's just a way for a weak person to show the world that he can do anything he wants to, by doing something that he couldn't do if he were governed by a responsible person.
Go make your mark on the world, instead of "tagging" yourself.
They can settle out the water that gets sucked up with the rubble, filter it well, and reuse it. They can also filter untreated ditchwater.
Now, something like this would never be permitted around here (front range region of Colorado, USA), as the water supply would be a barrier. Our water laws are some of the most complex rules since the fall of Byzantium, and the supply is tight enough that nobody'd ever let them use water for such a purpose, even if they got the supply.
embedding them into asphalt
This is for calcareous concrete, not bituminous concrete (asphalt). I reckon you could damage asphalt pretty well with it, but it wouldn't make the easily-managed slurry that is produced from the calcium carbonate, and the hydrocarbons in the water would be tough to treat out.
180mm is more like a small screw driver>/I>
Generally fasteners that large use a hex head or a through-hole to turn them, if they aren't in fact simply welded. By any measure, a screwdriver 180mm across is outlandishly large.
Incidentally... What is a "moster"? Something that mosts? If so, when did "most" become a verb?
Oh, yes, of course on the distortion - it was obvious that it was a scan-generated image, with the scanning done at an offset to the plane of rotation,yet projected as a rectangular image. I was surprised anybody even asked about it, and was ignoring that part of the discussion. The use of the term "boundary" just caught my attention, and made me think of that dramatic example of smooth bending I'd seen.
On the straight-edge question, You've definitely got me there. If the edge were physically perfectly rigid, would it bend opposite to the way light bends? I was thinking of the other straight-edge we can use in measuring gravitational lensing - comparison to apparent position of other stars whose light isn't as affected by the lens in question. Plainly, both rays come straight through space, but change direction from each other. Hrmm... we can have perfectly straight and parallel lines that are also non-parallel. They're both perfectly straight to themselves, but each sees the other as bent. (B==true && !B==true) == true. I guess the work "relativity" makes sense.:-) I call the lensed ray bent because it appears to be so in comparison to the majority of the rest of the universe, sort of a majority rule. I know the minority's right too - in fact, the apparently bent path is quite possibly the shorter distance, That's right, the shortest distance between two points is either a straight or curved line.
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placing bits on end instead of lying them parallel on the disc surface
This one threw me off. Is the use of "lie" instead of "lay" due to low literacy, or does it mean that the data will be inverted - "lies", so to speak? The article doesn't mention encoding.
freenet still isint there yet, but feel free to tell us when.
You said it! I just went to download it, and it is not available on any of the mirrors. I don't know whether they changed the version and didn't update the mirror links, or somebody got to them and made them take it down (even in Chekoslovakia?).
First post to touch on my point. SCO is desperately trying to scrounge up the last dregs of revenue in exchange for the last dregs of their reputation and goodwill. Linux is going to be there whether it makes money or not. The GNU environment that uses it will be there whether it makes money or not. Both are making money for people even though they can't directly charge for it. In a couple of years, SCO will be some competent company's redheaded stepchild, and their users will be a pure revenue drain as the OS sunsets. They can move now, or they can pay licensing for 20 or so months, THEN move. Depending on the business, there are advantages to both paths. This is the environment in which they must evaluate their decision.
I wonder if Proctor & Gamble have anything in their contract to let them out of paying if comments like this were attached as replies to such perfectly-staged shills as the grandparent and great-grandparent comments.
To the editors' credit, I just turned on score display, and see that the parent post isn't moderated to oblivion - in fact, sports an informative. I may very well be wrong, and the article is not a shill, but rather a very ill-considered legitimate question. It's just that now, with the push to be profitable, I could see the temptation to manipulate the system.
One other note - the article is off the front page, and not in the "older stuff", while the article before and after it chronologically, are still on the front page. I'm guessing that intentional or not, this one burned.
The article calls a PHB "something a little less expendable"
The economy is leaning out (internal combustion engine expression). They're still cutting jobs while production is going up. I'm guessing that this is mostly by eating their seed stock, but there's still a lot of pressure to eliminate non-contributing positions. One of my few consolations in this current layoff is that the fool who chose me as the person to cut within the two choices he had, then had to pay to relocate a much less-competent replacement for me(the company never brings back discarded talent) is now in a death spiral caused mostly by that stupidity.
I think the current pressure will make the PHB an endangered species. We'll still have good managers (mine got booted in the wave before me, and I spent two months unmanaged), but actual PHB-types will finally be doing what they're qualified for - closing shift at Booger Fling.
capability at putting fires out is poor
CO2 works by smothering the fire with overwhelming volume of noncombustable gas. You could use argon just as easily, though more expensively (more expensive to start with, not as cheap to store compactly). Spraying CO2 at a bonfire is completely pointless. Flooding a room with it while venting the top of the room stops all air-sustained combustion, instantly. Hotspots will reignite when air hits them, so you have to wait for them to cool, and cut the power to any electrically-powered hotspots, before you ventilate and enter the room. However, nobody can reasonably complain about environmental effects of its use, and it has absolutely no detrimental effects on the equipment.
Sure, insurance will replace stuff damaged by dust, water, or foam fire supression, but you'll be back up and running a lot sooner if you don't have to replace in the first place. Rebuilding a data center and loading up to the last backup takes significant time, plus you lose all the work since the backup. Enterprise-class databases can run tape transaction logs as they go, and you can have them writing offsite and reapply them, sure, but if you're that advanced, the time spent getting equipment back in is probably crippling anyway. That's why critical work is done with two geographically-separated duplicate facilities, the backup location is mirroring the primary database in realtime, and BOTH are fully fire-protected.
In business, when you tell your moneymakers that they'll have to wait while you replace equipment and restore backup, even if you can get it done in a few hours, you've lost face. The more functionality you can provide, the happier they are.
Disclaimer: Being a consistent hero with no backup at the most successful site in a huge, profitable company provides no defense against layoff when upper management micromanages functions that they don't even know about.
Bandwidth IS directly proportional to frequency
...and WOW! I can crank up my 1200baud packet system to 3600baud by just switching from 2M to 70cm. Thank you, oh great radio genius!</SARCASM>
What?
<SARCASM>Wow! I can do morse code at only about 8wpm (which equates to about 40 baud) on 80M. Does that mean that I can do 856wpm on 70cm?
Sorry, but that's such an offensively ignorant statement from a member of a very technically-savvy group that I have to go off on it a bit. Frequency occupied by a signal indicates how much data could be fit in it. Depending on your modulation scheme, you'll reach some significant fraction of that bandwidth. In a perfect propogation environment, with perfect components on both ends, that fraction can asymptotically approach 1. For relatively-reliable real-world links, you'll be running well below 50% of the theoretical throughput, to make it easier for the receiver to discriminate the actual states of the transmitter. Ethernet is an example of a protocol expecting near-perfect transmission. Ever had a 100MBps link fail back to 10 because of crappy terminations, or had any link degraded? That's because individual packets are simply not getting resolved by the receivers, due to substandard signal-to-noise ratio - noise leaking into the cable and/or signal leaking out.
That's why 802.11 links drop in speed, so the reciever can sort of go "Is that bit off or on? It sounded on, but it's really not much different from the static. Well, it keeps looking like it's on. Yes, that's definitely '1'", while at higher speeds, there's less chance to discrimnate the signal from the noise.
Have you ever worked in a really loud factory? You can't understand anything coming over the PA system, but the signal tones sent over the same system at the same volume in the same environment are perfectly understandable.
Now, if systems used everything from DC to their operating frequency, a 2.4Ghz system would have about 2.5x the potential bandwidth as a 900Mhz system. In fact, however, the systems use a slice of spectrum in the range of their stated frequency. I don't know the amount of spectrum used by these systems, but I know some things about the frequencies and the environment they work in.
First: In general, path loss increases with frequency. My beam has nearly 3 times the gain on 70cm as it does on 2M, but using the same power, I can work stations much farther away with 2M than 70cm.
Second:there are specific absorptions in different frequency ranges. Since the early 1970s, at least, many households have made use of the strong water absorption band around 2.4Ghz to heat food in microwave ovens. That means two things A)2.4Ghz performance is significantly affected by humidity. B)There are ubiquitous high-power ISM devices in the band. Why do you think most 802.11b gear has a setting to work around microwave ovens?
In the end, you're probably going to be using a system with throughput capability many times larger than the amount you are to receive, which will allow for big sags in performance to not hurt you unless they coincide with peaks in demand. I would recommend going for the one with the smaller collision domain. I bought into Sprint Broadband Direct, which uses large swaths of licensed spectrum (no significant interference). This system operates from single central systems covering vast geographic areas - mine is a mountain 16 miles away, and i'm near the fringe. That's 804 square miles. Half of it is blocked by the mountains behind it, but the sector it does cover is heavy population (north of Denver). That means that even though the RF transit time to the tower is insignificant, My unit has to wait in line for a long time for its turn to transmit, giving me ping times ranging from 100ms (quite acceptable) to 5 seconds (no interractive work over VPN, I can tell you). Mesa networks has come into the area now, using 802.11B and gain antennae. Base stations are on poles (cell sites, phon
1 week on, $numberofemployees - 1 off
manager intervenes in cases where a person is about to work the the second holiday in a row, in which case the person being screwed trades with the person before him in the rotation.
Apply appropriate further perturbations in cases where the holidays worked differential exceeds 2.
Incidentally, in case somebody's looking for a really good unix admin to cover a holiday or something...?
A relief? Our patent system has become a joke... Do something that's been done for all of recorded history, but involve a computer in some peripheral way, or explain how you can do it to make money, and to the dimwitted patent examiners, it's suddenly innovative and non-obvious. Fortunately, in this case, the applicant is not a gargantuan corporation, so it's unlikely that there'd be anyone worth suing that's enough smaller than him for him to sue them out of existence for carrying less than a full roll of tape at one time.
My, what an ugly sentence!
...windoze and unix works well, requires only one firewall hole at the client, though you may want to have one of your guys run a "look who's listening" server - add a port forward for that one, and one for a reflector if you want to use one, but one of those suffices for all the clients. It's not polished - no voice mixing, for instance, but it is very solid.
First, let me state that I'm sure Hormel doesn't mind being associated with UCE if it's pornographic UCE, especially gay kiddie porn, as they have already publicly done so with the San Francisco-based Hormel Library.
I suggest that we continue to call all unwanted email SPAM (make sure we get the case right, so as to match the way they describe their trademark), and good mail can be called Treet. Treet is just as good as SPAM, and none of the proceeds go towards the promotion of child molestation.
Let them stop products from using the name, while casual conversation, which is not bound by copyright law, specifically associates them with bad things, in comparison to their competitors. I don't care if James Hormel wants to get sexual gratifaction with another man. By the time somebody's grown up, if that's what they like, it's sad, but not as sad as denying them the right to love who they love. It's his predilection for young boys, and particularly his work to legitimize that pathological condition, that removes him from the ranks of humanity.
I'm not familiar with the specific unit, but assume it does not have forced convection, or you probably wouldn't be having this problem. Most of these units are rectangular, with one dimension much longer than the other two. Figure out which end is hotter while running laying flat. Open it up and drill a few air holes on each small end. Be careful with drill shavings. If you can get the case completely isolated from the electronics, that's best. Put the hot end down, or either one, if the hotspot is centered, and raise the end a bit to let air reach the holes.
This will maximize thermal convection. If that's still not enough, you'll have to arrange forced air... a little CPU fan stuck over the holes will suffice.
Dasher lets you soft of "steer a course" through what you want to say, which is pretty handy when you need to create a long stream of text. In the current incarnation, it seems to be lc alphas and the space, only, but to blow out the bulk of your text, and insert punctuation and formatting later, it could be very handy. With use, it learns the statistical distribution of letter order, so that the easiest things to write are things you write a lot... when you pass through a "J", vowels are big and easy to hit, while consonants are tiny little slits. You'll see what I mean when you play with it. I don't use it myself, aside from seeing what it can do so I can help others use it if needed, but it's definitely what I would use if I needed to write a book and had only limited use of my hands.
Translation?
...and I quote"
Sure.
first
That's all I have to say about that. Now, on to the next item.
radio
That's all I have to say about that. Now, on to the next item.
post
I doubt that's what he meant, but that's what he said. Some morse input software uses the _BT_ prosign as a space.
Don't you mean "It are wrong. Does you talks those way?"
Yes. That's kind of the point. It'll be a dupe this afternoon when Michael hears about it.
lightning only occurs over land or near land
That is incorrect.
I've made the 720x540 stream availableon edonkey/overnet. It's got lots of info about who did it inside it, so I figure the authors won't feel cheated on copyright. It's so tedious anyway, I doubt that it'll be wildly popular, but the fact that it can be done at all is interesting to see.
I haven't gotten the python modules right for bittorrent on RH9 or I'd set that up, too.
People can't don't chose their natural physical features. Behaviours are more debateable. I'm personally creeped out by gay people, in much the same way I find booger-eaters repulsive, but I refuse to demand that two people in love stay apart. It's unnatural and unhealthy, but unless we're also going to enforce prohibition on alcohol and tobacco, that issue is irrelevant.
Oh, and "non-conformists" my ass! It's conformity with their own peer group, or at least one with which they want to identify. Pointless self-mutilation is a much greater act of conformity than getting an education, getting married, taking a job, buying a house, etc., in that it has no intrinsic value, with no purpose except to fit in. In some primitive cultures, these marks are important, and actually confer benefits. In any culture, a mark as a dramatic, irrevocable demonstration of commitment to some positive value, like your country, your wife, etc., is acceptable (maybe not universally, but generally). But, it makes no sense to permanently commit yourself to a useless fad proves POOR IMPULSE CONTROL, in much the same way the referenced tattoo does.
- trains you, actually, and the sociopathy is a relative thing. It depends on who he's relating to.
About half of my hobby activity is technical - messing with various computer systems, ham radio, astronomy (dormant - mirror has been missing for 3 years). Otherwise, playing with my son (4, autistic), trying to give my daughter a fair share of attention, jeeping around off-road (with both kids), and hiking and climbing (my only solitude). Oh, and grinding away my hope and self-esteem futilely trying to find a job. I think "over-qualified" is just a euphemism for "old".
... the more obvious the better. There's nothing permanent voluntary disfigurement to enable people to instantly identify a pathetic loser. "I'm a wild, free spirit! To show my individuality, I'll be different in exactly the same way everybody I hang out is." It's just a way for a weak person to show the world that he can do anything he wants to, by doing something that he couldn't do if he were governed by a responsible person.
Go make your mark on the world, instead of "tagging" yourself.
They can settle out the water that gets sucked up with the rubble, filter it well, and reuse it. They can also filter untreated ditchwater.
Now, something like this would never be permitted around here (front range region of Colorado, USA), as the water supply would be a barrier. Our water laws are some of the most complex rules since the fall of Byzantium, and the supply is tight enough that nobody'd ever let them use water for such a purpose, even if they got the supply.
embedding them into asphalt
This is for calcareous concrete, not bituminous concrete (asphalt). I reckon you could damage asphalt pretty well with it, but it wouldn't make the easily-managed slurry that is produced from the calcium carbonate, and the hydrocarbons in the water would be tough to treat out.
180mm is more like a small screw driver>/I>
Generally fasteners that large use a hex head or a through-hole to turn them, if they aren't in fact simply welded. By any measure, a screwdriver 180mm across is outlandishly large.
Incidentally... What is a "moster"? Something that mosts? If so, when did "most" become a verb?
Oh, yes, of course on the distortion - it was obvious that it was a scan-generated image, with the scanning done at an offset to the plane of rotation,yet projected as a rectangular image. I was surprised anybody even asked about it, and was ignoring that part of the discussion. The use of the term "boundary" just caught my attention, and made me think of that dramatic example of smooth bending I'd seen. :-) I call the lensed ray bent because it appears to be so in comparison to the majority of the rest of the universe, sort of a majority rule. I know the minority's right too - in fact, the apparently bent path is quite possibly the shorter distance, That's right, the shortest distance between two points is either a straight or curved line.
On the straight-edge question, You've definitely got me there. If the edge were physically perfectly rigid, would it bend opposite to the way light bends? I was thinking of the other straight-edge we can use in measuring gravitational lensing - comparison to apparent position of other stars whose light isn't as affected by the lens in question. Plainly, both rays come straight through space, but change direction from each other. Hrmm... we can have perfectly straight and parallel lines that are also non-parallel. They're both perfectly straight to themselves, but each sees the other as bent. (B==true && !B==true) == true. I guess the work "relativity" makes sense.