I grew up on a turkey farm. We had to ship (actually truck) the turkeys to the plant we contracted with, where they were butchered. The system the used, and still do, is basically a big enclosed conveyor belt. The turkeys are "chased" onto the bottom of it, and then are carried up to the top, where two people push the turkeys into cages on a semi trailer.
It's not as fancy as this contraption, but it works. Something more efficient would be nice, but it would actually be hard to accomadate a machine like this. Plus, I doubt that Jennie-O Turkey Store wants to cough up the money for those when these 15-20 year old contraptions still work.
I seem to recall that this was the sort of thing that sparked what we call the "Revolutionary War." Taxation without representation, anyone?
This would be like the state mailing speeding tickets to everyone with a driver's license because a lot of people speed and get away with it.
Mars by 2010?? Why not go to the moon first, considering we've "never been there?" Or maybe they'll fake the Mars landing too, you know, just to beat the...umm...*mumble*...
Actually, I use a $30 table from Sam's Club, but am waiting for some cash to buy a decent desk. A table just doesn't cut it. But I agree that it's better than the cheap pressboard stuff.
One problem with this might be accomidating desks. A lot of the cheap $150 desks you can pick up at Office Max may not be ideal for this. I'm not sure what the dimensions are exactly, but it's possible that the spot for the tower may be too narrow for this case. Just a thought.
I know some farmers in North Dakota who do a LOT of field/crop work and they said that this GPS is an awesome tool. You can even get combines or tractors that are controlled by GPS. You could run them from your kitchen table, if you wanted. Just punch in the coordiates or tell it to move south 50 feet or make a right turn, et cetera. Of course these are not in use, but the prototypes are there. As for using GPS in combines/tractors, they use them commonly and I know they are trying to get them installed in most of their vehicles. Obviously if you farm 13.5 acres, it might not be worth your time. But for the farmers in ND, NE, KS, et cetera, this is something that makes their job a lot easier.
Yeah, the SIS (or MI-6) is a ton more secretive than the CIA. I mean, we Americans have known about the CIA since it was created in 1947, but the SIS wasn't publically acknowledged until 1996, so that says a lot.
You're right in your statment about knowledge of the device. I think I just took it farther than you intended.
I can see how many people would find the binder to be boring when compared the Enigma and other items, but this binder is what keeps the president informed of the latest intelligence, which is one of the most highly classified documents. This is the binder that keeps the president on top of the world, so to speak. I agree that some of the other items, like the wooden seal from the Moscow embassy, would be more interesting.
I think to say that no one besides the director (DCI) would know is stretching it. The deputy director for science and technology (DDS&T) would definately know because (s)he would obviously be in charge of developing the device. The deputy director for operations (DDO) would also likely be informed of the device so that he could implement its use in the field. Although it is actually possible that the S&T directorate would implement use of the umbrella without telling the DDO, I highly doubt it. The device would be used for assassinations and the DDO would definately be informed of those. But people who served in such senior positions would likely not disclose the information.
I think you're starting to step into Cold War novels or Hollywood when you say that people only know "their part of the job" and not the whole. I think the CIA trusts their employees enough. I think one would work better with a fuller understanding of the task. Certainly the CIA did use this technique during sensitive Cold War operations, and definately the KGB as well, but I question whether it is commonly used today.
The CIA, as far as we know, did not make the suitcase bombs. The KGB made close to 100 of them and dispersed them throughout the USSR. The only reason that they remain to be a concern is because when the USSR fell in 1991, the KGB and it's successor, the SVR, failed to collect all of them from the now-liberated states. Eventually corrupt government officials let these get into the hands of terrorists and arms dealers for large sums of money. Russia doesn't know how many are out there. But this article likely didn't mention them because the CIA never made them. If they did, they obviously never tried to put them to use, and they are still highly classified.
Yes, the suitcase nuke is one of the greatest developments of the Cold War. What's frightening about it though, is that the KGB was able to develop them, without the assistance of the Russian military. The KGB had a shocking amount of power and capabilities.
Albert Speer, the Third Reich's minister of armaments and war production, wrote in his memoirs, "Inside the Third Reich," that they were working on an A-Bomb and would have produced one by 1947. This would have been a moot point since the Americans did it by 1945.
As long as we are talking about video DVDs, this makes complete sense. Sure, DVDs have interactive programs on there, but you do not install anything; you just play them, the same as a CD. When it comes to DVDs for games and whatever that require some installation, then they had better classify them as software. If it's a DVD sold in a movie store or sold as a movie, it shouldn't be labeled software.
Heck, DVDs are expensive enough for movies. They expect to raise the price and acutally sell them?
I think it's a different guy, but what about the one who made the workind 9mm Beretta pistol out of Legos? And the (non-functioning) H&K MP5 submachine gun? That guy's good. But probably someone else. His site:
http://onyx.malagraphixia.com/Beretta_9mm/Beretta_ 9mm.htm
Who would pay for anything they can get for free? Sure sure, they'll have a nicer search engine, blah blah. This stupid idea makes Napster look brilliant in comparison. Napster's competition is illegal, so they at least have one up on them. This pay-per-search is lame. Yahoo has little up on their competition. But, to the surprise of all sane people, there WILL be some people who will pay.
I watched Black Hawk Down opening night. I'm still reading the book. I was almost half-way through the book when I saw the movie and I'm glad I was reading it. A lot of the stuff in the movie is just barely mentioned, so reading the book will help you understand the movie a lot better. They did an amazing job of keeping the movie to the "script" of the book. They changed a few things, but not much, so it pretty much follows the book. Awesome movie though. Definately one of the best I've ever seen.
I'm disappointed. I kind of hoped that the ultimate SUV wouldn't be so gosh-darn ugly. I have to admit though, that thing has just about everything that I don't need. Maybe for my next African safari.
I just finished reading "Inside the Third Reich" by Albert Speer. Speer was Hitler's architect and later Minister of Armaments and War Production. Thus any program to develop an atomic bomb was under Speer's ministry.
He said that they were working on one, but due to Hitler's poor leadership and executive decisions, it never got the priority it should have. Speer claimed that Nazi Germany could have produced an atomic bomb by 1947.
That of course, he said, was inconsequential because the United States produced theirs by August of 1945.
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I grew up on a turkey farm. We had to ship (actually truck) the turkeys to the plant we contracted with, where they were butchered. The system the used, and still do, is basically a big enclosed conveyor belt. The turkeys are "chased" onto the bottom of it, and then are carried up to the top, where two people push the turkeys into cages on a semi trailer.
It's not as fancy as this contraption, but it works. Something more efficient would be nice, but it would actually be hard to accomadate a machine like this. Plus, I doubt that Jennie-O Turkey Store wants to cough up the money for those when these 15-20 year old contraptions still work.
I wonder if you'll still have to flip the remote-controlled car over to use the off/on switch. Maybe you can just crawl underneath.
I seem to recall that this was the sort of thing that sparked what we call the "Revolutionary War." Taxation without representation, anyone? This would be like the state mailing speeding tickets to everyone with a driver's license because a lot of people speed and get away with it.
Mars by 2010?? Why not go to the moon first, considering we've "never been there?" Or maybe they'll fake the Mars landing too, you know, just to beat the...umm...*mumble*...
Actually, I use a $30 table from Sam's Club, but am waiting for some cash to buy a decent desk. A table just doesn't cut it. But I agree that it's better than the cheap pressboard stuff.
One problem with this might be accomidating desks. A lot of the cheap $150 desks you can pick up at Office Max may not be ideal for this. I'm not sure what the dimensions are exactly, but it's possible that the spot for the tower may be too narrow for this case. Just a thought.
I know some farmers in North Dakota who do a LOT of field/crop work and they said that this GPS is an awesome tool. You can even get combines or tractors that are controlled by GPS. You could run them from your kitchen table, if you wanted. Just punch in the coordiates or tell it to move south 50 feet or make a right turn, et cetera. Of course these are not in use, but the prototypes are there. As for using GPS in combines/tractors, they use them commonly and I know they are trying to get them installed in most of their vehicles. Obviously if you farm 13.5 acres, it might not be worth your time. But for the farmers in ND, NE, KS, et cetera, this is something that makes their job a lot easier.
Yeah, the SIS (or MI-6) is a ton more secretive than the CIA. I mean, we Americans have known about the CIA since it was created in 1947, but the SIS wasn't publically acknowledged until 1996, so that says a lot.
You're right in your statment about knowledge of the device. I think I just took it farther than you intended.
I can see how many people would find the binder to be boring when compared the Enigma and other items, but this binder is what keeps the president informed of the latest intelligence, which is one of the most highly classified documents. This is the binder that keeps the president on top of the world, so to speak. I agree that some of the other items, like the wooden seal from the Moscow embassy, would be more interesting.
I think to say that no one besides the director (DCI) would know is stretching it. The deputy director for science and technology (DDS&T) would definately know because (s)he would obviously be in charge of developing the device. The deputy director for operations (DDO) would also likely be informed of the device so that he could implement its use in the field. Although it is actually possible that the S&T directorate would implement use of the umbrella without telling the DDO, I highly doubt it. The device would be used for assassinations and the DDO would definately be informed of those. But people who served in such senior positions would likely not disclose the information.
I think you're starting to step into Cold War novels or Hollywood when you say that people only know "their part of the job" and not the whole. I think the CIA trusts their employees enough. I think one would work better with a fuller understanding of the task. Certainly the CIA did use this technique during sensitive Cold War operations, and definately the KGB as well, but I question whether it is commonly used today.
The CIA, as far as we know, did not make the suitcase bombs. The KGB made close to 100 of them and dispersed them throughout the USSR. The only reason that they remain to be a concern is because when the USSR fell in 1991, the KGB and it's successor, the SVR, failed to collect all of them from the now-liberated states. Eventually corrupt government officials let these get into the hands of terrorists and arms dealers for large sums of money. Russia doesn't know how many are out there. But this article likely didn't mention them because the CIA never made them. If they did, they obviously never tried to put them to use, and they are still highly classified.
Yes, the suitcase nuke is one of the greatest developments of the Cold War. What's frightening about it though, is that the KGB was able to develop them, without the assistance of the Russian military. The KGB had a shocking amount of power and capabilities.
Albert Speer, the Third Reich's minister of armaments and war production, wrote in his memoirs, "Inside the Third Reich," that they were working on an A-Bomb and would have produced one by 1947. This would have been a moot point since the Americans did it by 1945.
The SEC even took pictures of buildings and photoshopped the name of their "company" onto them.
http://www.mcwhortle.com/mcwbldg.jpg
Photoshoppers apply now.
As long as we are talking about video DVDs, this makes complete sense. Sure, DVDs have interactive programs on there, but you do not install anything; you just play them, the same as a CD. When it comes to DVDs for games and whatever that require some installation, then they had better classify them as software. If it's a DVD sold in a movie store or sold as a movie, it shouldn't be labeled software.
Heck, DVDs are expensive enough for movies. They expect to raise the price and acutally sell them?
Yeah. Remember when Saddam Hussein was buying up all those PS2's? Now he might be making large orders of Legos.
I think it's a different guy, but what about the one who made the workind 9mm Beretta pistol out of Legos? And the (non-functioning) H&K MP5 submachine gun? That guy's good. But probably someone else. His site: http://onyx.malagraphixia.com/Beretta_9mm/Beretta_ 9mm.htm
Who would pay for anything they can get for free? Sure sure, they'll have a nicer search engine, blah blah. This stupid idea makes Napster look brilliant in comparison. Napster's competition is illegal, so they at least have one up on them. This pay-per-search is lame. Yahoo has little up on their competition. But, to the surprise of all sane people, there WILL be some people who will pay.
I watched Black Hawk Down opening night. I'm still reading the book. I was almost half-way through the book when I saw the movie and I'm glad I was reading it. A lot of the stuff in the movie is just barely mentioned, so reading the book will help you understand the movie a lot better. They did an amazing job of keeping the movie to the "script" of the book. They changed a few things, but not much, so it pretty much follows the book. Awesome movie though. Definately one of the best I've ever seen.
I thought about that. It does look too tall. This thing could have more tip-overs than the Ford Explorer.
I'm disappointed. I kind of hoped that the ultimate SUV wouldn't be so gosh-darn ugly. I have to admit though, that thing has just about everything that I don't need. Maybe for my next African safari.
I just finished reading "Inside the Third Reich" by Albert Speer. Speer was Hitler's architect and later Minister of Armaments and War Production. Thus any program to develop an atomic bomb was under Speer's ministry. He said that they were working on one, but due to Hitler's poor leadership and executive decisions, it never got the priority it should have. Speer claimed that Nazi Germany could have produced an atomic bomb by 1947. That of course, he said, was inconsequential because the United States produced theirs by August of 1945.