That's a pretty large upper limit. We're talking relativistic velocities here. Somehow I doubt a bike can move that fast (ok, one of the new plastic crotch rockets maybe:)
But it does put a new light on the old maxim, "Beware blue cats moving at.99c"
Run At The Mouth Disease is a frequent absolution statement of a fairly large statistical group who feel they've been overutilized and underappreciated. To counter this negative feedback we've instituted the "Happy Employee" Day, where we will harness our collective attractive karma thru the underemployment of outwear and underwear and the overemployment of smiles. All employees are encouraged to attend, and attendance will be taken.
Yeah, but at least the cats can't try to sleep on top of them;-)* and besides, I can rebuild them to hang them on the wall if I can get them working.
I can't afford to do that with one that I paid a shitload of money for, even if it's out of warranty. I got lucky on the prices I paid for my 21" and 19" CRTs:-D otherwise I'd still be squinting at my ancient IBM 17" and wondering why I can't focus on anything anymore.
Auctions rock...
An LCD here and there hanging on the wall around the desk that I could put, say, slashdot and snopes on continuously, now, that would Really Rock.;)
Cheers,
SB * If anyone notices any dichotomy between that and my earlier posts about solving this problem, let it be known that a certain cretinous 1 year old 16 lb bratchild tomcat has figured out how to strip the expanded metal sheathing off the top of the monitors by picking and gnawing at the ductape holding the pieces on. If I didn't love him so much I'd lock him up, he's a menace:-) But LCDs hung on the wall, now, that'd present a challenge to even Mr. Furry Sagan, here. I think.
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Have you ever been Rocking when everyone else was Rolling? s/Rocking/Rolling s/Rolling/Rocking... Kernel Panic Life(0) Full, rebooting
Ha! Our current vehicle just got it's Master's Degree;-) - '81 silverado. Rusty but trusty!
(purrs like a kitten too - in my experience knowing how to do most of your own maintenance is what brings that cost down:-D, that and older vehicles are simply much easier to work on)
You know what I hope? I hope Mr. Griffin has some backbone and tells the Administration that NASA will choose it's own projects, thank you for your input, but we are more qualified to choose what we can and can't do... and we're going back to what we did best, a science and R&D program, and let the private sector do what it does best....and then... and then he goes and does it and makes them eat it. With the right kind of publicity it could possibly be pulled off. I think a lot of people in this country right now need some goals that don't involve war.
Yeah, I'm probably dreaming. But it's a good dream.
SB
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We SHOULD be doing both. Or, at the least, (as you so eloquently put;) we should be preserving the old one, which is still doing useful science, until we have a real replacement, and meanwhile, FUND a replacement.
I hope Mr. Griffin realizes that, and has the moxie to browbeat the money out of the Administration. It's just a few drops out of the bucket after all compared to what everything else gets.
Sigh. I'll just wait and see how serious he is about this.
This is one of the best ask slashdot's ever. Thanks for all the info everyone. I have several dead LCDs sitting around and haven't managed to find the time to research the parts and narrow down what searches work.
You just saved me a huge amount of time. Maybe someday now I'll have a desk that's not 75% covered by monitors!
Heh. I preached for over twenty years (lived in MN for much longer) and people would nod their heads and say "Yeah, that makes a lot of sense." but in the long run it's NIMBY;-)
Sigh.
As to the MN bats, there used to be much bigger bat populations in a lot of MN. Various factors (mainly destruction of habitat and insecticides - any critter that can eat many times it's own weight in food rapidly accumulates poisons) have reduced them a lot. I don't remember the species exactly but the most common one when I was growing up was some kind of brown bat. As to winter survival, apparently they migrate.
Space infrastructure is precisely what we built with those billions; where do you think it came from? The Cape didn't just spring up fully formed, you know, nor the manufacturing or C^3 structure including things like the Deep Space Network, etc, etc, etc.
As Wyatt noted in his post, it was the political bloodletting (during the last years of the Vietnam War, I'll point out) that killed the plans NASA had for extending the Apollo missions beyond lunar missions.
You really go need to read some of that history, friend:)
It would make sense to have the elevator "cars" have some temporary independent life-support capability, in case they did have to detach. Also there would have to be some sort of universal grappling/airlock system devised in case the primary *cough*shuttle*cough* launch capability was offline.
So we'd still need cheap on-demand manned LEO rockets, on standby to rescue those people...;-)
How many of those people at the Sturgis Rally are foreigners?
You'd be surprised. It's like visiting the Grand Canyon - one hears a lot of languages during the rally. Hell, just at my job as a hardware store monkey I hear a Ukrainian dialect, polish, czech and french accents from bad to worse every day from our regular business owning customers, plus the usual spanish etc.
There's a great young couple here from the Ukraine somewhere who recently took over a business here. There's a polish family who are running one of the busiest privately owned motels in town.... there's some hope here. They are very, very decent people.
As to Sturgis Rally visitors being foreigners? Tons of them are.
Then I guess this isn't really small town America anymore... although it was at the tail end when I moved here a couple years ago. It's amazing how fast the change here is happening.
You oughta come out here sometime. If you're a hiker or a biker, you'd love the trails out here. We had an Italian marathoner out here summer before last, I retapped some bolt holes in his top frame for him. Interesting guy, if a little hard to understand:)
It's not necessary for these people to be whores; it's quite possible that they are simply honest people who are out of their depth and too conceited to realize it.
But all too often both sets are intersecting. Not that social dynamics are that simple:(
because really, who wants to vacation in South Dakota...very few.
We had over a million vacationers out here in the Black Hills last year for the Sturgis Rally alone, and get people from all over the world here all times of year. I could go on and on:)
It's a credit to the profession that few plumbers ever go, um, "plumber"; rather they fade away in front of the tv:-) Perhaps it's a lifetime of dealing with shit, one gets used to it. Nevermind:)
(I'm not a practicing plumber, but I do quite a bit of it, get paid to "teach" it, and believe me, you're not exaggerating, there's a reason I call my largest pipe wrench( the "Steer Bane":-)
There was this 450lb tenant in a building I was maint in once, and he had a habit of violently seperating the tank from the bowl and breaking both whilst Worshipping the Porcelain God. At least two or three times a month. Sigh.
Love the sound effects btw!
- sorry for the late post, working thru 'old' polls....
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we assume that people must be trained in their proper use
:-D
It's an assumption, all right
SB
Those are poor unenlightened souls who have not read Footfall.
:)
Pity them
SB
Cat Jumping Out of the Bath
:)
.99c"
That's a pretty large upper limit. We're talking relativistic velocities here. Somehow I doubt a bike can move that fast (ok, one of the new plastic crotch rockets maybe
But it does put a new light on the old maxim, "Beware blue cats moving at
Eh.
SB
yeah, left shifted the A a bit... hey, I was drunk-bunking and had Wyoming on one side and Nebraska on the other... Knott.
Sorry.
ok, it's bedtime...
SB
But have you checked the references or were they made up?
;-)
Have you?
SB
Is that broadcast available online? I saw a snippet some time back and about died laughing. You Brits have a marvelous sense of irony ;-)
(*hopeful*)
SB
Run At The Mouth Disease is a frequent absolution statement of a fairly large statistical group who feel they've been overutilized and underappreciated. To counter this negative feedback we've instituted the "Happy Employee" Day, where we will harness our collective attractive karma thru the underemployment of outwear and underwear and the overemployment of smiles. All employees are encouraged to attend, and attendance will be taken.
Good Day
Haired, Pointy, CERIO
Yeah, but at least the cats can't try to sleep on top of them ;-)* and besides, I can rebuild them to hang them on the wall if I can get them working.
:-D otherwise I'd still be squinting at my ancient IBM 17" and wondering why I can't focus on anything anymore.
;)
:-) But LCDs hung on the wall, now, that'd present a challenge to even Mr. Furry Sagan, here. I think.
... Kernel Panic Life(0) Full, rebooting
I can't afford to do that with one that I paid a shitload of money for, even if it's out of warranty. I got lucky on the prices I paid for my 21" and 19" CRTs
Auctions rock...
An LCD here and there hanging on the wall around the desk that I could put, say, slashdot and snopes on continuously, now, that would Really Rock.
Cheers,
SB
* If anyone notices any dichotomy between that and my earlier posts about solving this problem, let it be known that a certain cretinous 1 year old 16 lb bratchild tomcat has figured out how to strip the expanded metal sheathing off the top of the monitors by picking and gnawing at the ductape holding the pieces on. If I didn't love him so much I'd lock him up, he's a menace
--
Have you ever been Rocking when everyone else was Rolling? s/Rocking/Rolling s/Rolling/Rocking
I think I'll pass on what you're smoking, although the visuals sound rather interesting. ;-D
SB
Ha! Our current vehicle just got it's Master's Degree ;-) - '81 silverado. Rusty but trusty!
:-D, that and older vehicles are simply much easier to work on)
(purrs like a kitten too - in my experience knowing how to do most of your own maintenance is what brings that cost down
Cheers!
SB
One man's bullshit is another man's treasure. - me
SB
That's probably the most insightful piece of realpolitik I've read in the Hubble threads yet. Spot on ;-(
Cheers!
SB
He probably meant the moderated up ones :-)
...and then... and then he goes and does it and makes them eat it. With the right kind of publicity it could possibly be pulled off. I think a lot of people in this country right now need some goals that don't involve war.
You know what I hope? I hope Mr. Griffin has some backbone and tells the Administration that NASA will choose it's own projects, thank you for your input, but we are more qualified to choose what we can and can't do... and we're going back to what we did best, a science and R&D program, and let the private sector do what it does best.
Yeah, I'm probably dreaming. But it's a good dream.
SB
We SHOULD be doing both. Or, at the least, (as you so eloquently put ;) we should be preserving the old one, which is still doing useful science, until we have a real replacement, and meanwhile, FUND a replacement.
I hope Mr. Griffin realizes that, and has the moxie to browbeat the money out of the Administration. It's just a few drops out of the bucket after all compared to what everything else gets.
Sigh. I'll just wait and see how serious he is about this.
SB
This is one of the best ask slashdot's ever. Thanks for all the info everyone. I have several dead LCDs sitting around and haven't managed to find the time to research the parts and narrow down what searches work.
You just saved me a huge amount of time. Maybe someday now I'll have a desk that's not 75% covered by monitors!
Cheers!
SB
Heh. I preached for over twenty years (lived in MN for much longer) and people would nod their heads and say "Yeah, that makes a lot of sense." but in the long run it's NIMBY ;-)
Sigh.
As to the MN bats, there used to be much bigger bat populations in a lot of MN. Various factors (mainly destruction of habitat and insecticides - any critter that can eat many times it's own weight in food rapidly accumulates poisons) have reduced them a lot. I don't remember the species exactly but the most common one when I was growing up was some kind of brown bat. As to winter survival, apparently they migrate.
Cheers!
SB
I believe Ubuntu will send you install CDs for free.
:)
(correct me if I'm wrong here, I'm on the way out the door to work and in a hurry
SB
Space infrastructure is precisely what we built with those billions; where do you think it came from? The Cape didn't just spring up fully formed, you know, nor the manufacturing or C^3 structure including things like the Deep Space Network, etc, etc, etc.
:)
As Wyatt noted in his post, it was the political bloodletting (during the last years of the Vietnam War, I'll point out) that killed the plans NASA had for extending the Apollo missions beyond lunar missions.
You really go need to read some of that history, friend
SB
It would make sense to have the elevator "cars" have some temporary independent life-support capability, in case they did have to detach. Also there would have to be some sort of universal grappling/airlock system devised in case the primary *cough*shuttle*cough* launch capability was offline.
;-)
So we'd still need cheap on-demand manned LEO rockets, on standby to rescue those people...
SB
In a sense, the original urned into Star Trek :)
SB
How many of those people at the Sturgis Rally are foreigners?
You'd be surprised. It's like visiting the Grand Canyon - one hears a lot of languages during the rally. Hell, just at my job as a hardware store monkey I hear a Ukrainian dialect, polish, czech and french accents from bad to worse every day from our regular business owning customers, plus the usual spanish etc.
There's a great young couple here from the Ukraine somewhere who recently took over a business here. There's a polish family who are running one of the busiest privately owned motels in town.... there's some hope here. They are very, very decent people.
As to Sturgis Rally visitors being foreigners? Tons of them are.
Then I guess this isn't really small town America anymore... although it was at the tail end when I moved here a couple years ago. It's amazing how fast the change here is happening.
You oughta come out here sometime. If you're a hiker or a biker, you'd love the trails out here. We had an Italian marathoner out here summer before last, I retapped some bolt holes in his top frame for him. Interesting guy, if a little hard to understand
*Grunts*
Cheers,
SB
It's not necessary for these people to be whores; it's quite possible that they are simply honest people who are out of their depth and too conceited to realize it.
:(
But all too often both sets are intersecting. Not that social dynamics are that simple
Excellent post BTW.
SB
I hate to say it, but MS and M$ is an inescapable analogy even looked at logically
Cheers,
SB
because really, who wants to vacation in South Dakota...very few.
:)
;-)
We had over a million vacationers out here in the Black Hills last year for the Sturgis Rally alone, and get people from all over the world here all times of year. I could go on and on
Not all of SD is rolling hills and cattle
Cheers,
SB
ROFL@tehtruecookie
It's a credit to the profession that few plumbers ever go, um, "plumber"; rather they fade away in front of the tv
(I'm not a practicing plumber, but I do quite a bit of it, get paid to "teach" it, and believe me, you're not exaggerating, there's a reason I call my largest pipe wrench( the "Steer Bane"
There was this 450lb tenant in a building I was maint in once, and he had a habit of violently seperating the tank from the bowl and breaking both whilst Worshipping the Porcelain God. At least two or three times a month. Sigh.
Love the sound effects btw!
- sorry for the late post, working thru 'old' polls....
Cheers and thx for the laugh!
SB