Last weekend I made some of this stuff( Chem Q???)
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I made 2 batches in old mayo jars.
The first batch I made of neat ( unused ) vegitable (soybean) oil. I added the ethanol/lye to the oil which stayed at the bottom. I shook the jar and then the oil ( now converted to biodiesel ) floated to the top.
The second batch I made started with neat ( unused ) hydrogenated vegitable ( soybean ) oil AKA Crisco. I had to melt the Crisco on the stove before adding the ethanol/lye mixture. The reaction happened so fast at the elevated temperature that I am not sure if the unreacted melted crisco would have sunk or not in the ethanol/lye. I do know that the end product sunk in ethanol/lye but still floated in water.
The problem with the batch made from crisco was that it is solid at room temperature. No good for biodiesel. However, since soybean oil is naturally unsaturated, biodiesel made from it is liquid.
There is a problem with using unsaturated fats for fuel - they polymerize into 'gunk' in the conditions found in engines and eventually gum up the works.
Naturally saturated veggie oils tend to be expensive and are also usually solid at room temperature. What is needed is a way to use Crisco as a starting point but somehow shorten the hydrocarbon chains so that the saturated fuel can be liquid at room temperature.
Any chemist out there know how to take a methyl or ethyl ester from the biodiesel transesterification process and shorten the hydrocarbon chain? I've heard of cracking, but that sounds like a high temp/pressure/catalyst sort of process that would tend to destroy or remove the alcohol on the end. Any other ideas?
It's easy to forget to send in a rebate that's $10.00 or under. I'll bet half of such rebates never get sent in.
Also, many larger rebates require the original recipt and a section to be cut out of the box. That makes collecting the rebate for something you are giving away difficult. Do you rudely give the person the recipt ( with the price ) or do you rudely cut up their box so they can't return it if they need to?
I got cheezed out of a $25.00 cell phone rebate that way.
I get pissed at trick finance like that. They should just quote the price and sell it simply. I have become so paranoid that I'm getting bamboozled by not having a calculator to compare prices that I'm starting to just buy the product with the simplest to understand price sticker without trying to figure out how/if the other brand is trying to screw me.
Probably the worst confusion is on big ticket items like cars. They have a rebate so that people who can't put money down on a car can just put the rebate down on the car which allows them to sell more cars. Basically, it ammounts to this: Bank doesn't want to give a low interest loan without a hefty down payment that will let the owner not be upside down on the loan once they drive off the lot. Bank would give the person ( with good credit but no downpayment ) a loan at a higher interest rate, but the customer would rather just wait till they have the money for a down payment than accept a 17% interest rate. But since the car company is also a bank, they offer to apply the rebate (made possible by jacking up the price of the car in the first place) to the downpayment. The rebate is approximately equal (or maybe a little more than ) the ammount of the added interest over the life of the loan. Since the sticker price of the car is more than the true cash value of the car ( even before it has been driven off the lot because the price has been jacked up to make room for a rebate, the customer is even more upside down on their loan than they would have been if they had been able to buy at the after rebate price without a downpayment.
There are infintessimally small risks of catastrophe in research. Ok. But technology can be used for good. There is a much larger chance that the research will provide the means to SAVE the world from an impending catastrophe than cause one.
Another point: If only criminals can research bioweapons then only criminals will know anything about them. When one makes a superplague, nobody will no how to cure it if the line of research is forbidden.
He says that any experiment with a nonzero risk however slight should be subject to a vote ( oh yeah the general public is SO much more aware of the risks and benefits of an experiment than those ignorant scientists ) before being allowed to happen.
That reminds me of an old story I was once told:
A family of four is driving to the ocean to sunbathe and swim, while passing an airbase they swerve to miss a stray cat and hit a gasoline tanker that blows up. The cloud of smoke obscures the vision of a pilot landing an airplane which causes him to crash into an ICBM silo. The missile launches causing world war three and the end of the world.
Should the family not be able to run the experiment of taking a drive to the ocean because of the infintessimally small risk of it causing the end of the world? Of course not.
I may have downloaded a song or two but I really don't care if I can download songs. I don't want to pay so other people can download songs either. I would rather not have the ability to download songs which I would not do because I DON'T WANT SONGS than pay so someone else can get their Back Street Boys fix. I also don't want my ISP to put in a firewall that would take away my ability to use P2P ( which has other uses besides music sharing but will never realize it's potential if it is regulated as a purely piratical technology - the restrictions will make other legitimate uses impossible )
The flat fee is unfair because it forces people who are not consumers of music to pay for it.
Microsoft has encrypted the XBox up the wazoo to prevent just this sort of thing. And hacker types spend untold hours to put Linux on their Xboxen and succeeded despite the attempts to stop it.
This has probably been asked but I am going to ask anyway: Why put Linux on an XBox? XBox sucks compared to the PS2. PS2 has way more gamez and a kewl blue LED! Who the heck would buy an XBox in the first place?
I'd buy a PS2 for a teenager so they could have a DVD player and a gaming station, and a Linux box to write book reports on in their room for cheap, but seriously, do you think a kid would want an XBox over a PS2? Come on!
I never used my first install of linux because I was a newbie to it and I could not figure out why I could not get my WinModem to work and hence had no internet access with linux. Then I saw a guy running linux with a modem and asked him if he had any ideas. He said that some modems are winmodems meaning that there are not drivers available for linux. So I took note of his brand of modem and bought one just like it and had no trouble getting it working on my 233 mhz pentium. As I became more and more familiar with linux I stopped using MS Windows entirely.
Having given away that old WinModem long ago, I recently bought a new internal modem from US Robotics ( a brand that I used to trust ) when my puppy ate my old Diamond Multimedia external modem. It worked fine on my wife's Windows partition, but I could not get it working on linux. So I looked up winmodems again, now pissed at US Robotics for putting out a crappy modem. I discovered that PRETTY MUCH ALL internal and usb modems are WinModems because the manufacturers leave out the controller chip in the modem and emulate it with proprietary software. So I returned the $25.00 US Robotics modem to Wal*Mart and bought an external serial Modem Blaster from Creative labs which although it cost $65.00, worked great under linux with no special drivers.
I have a Pentium 4 computer, and there have been WinModems since before the days of my old P1/233. The emulation does not significantly slow down the download speed or the performance of even the old P1/233 and certainly not a new P4.
I am not pissed at US Robotics for leaving out a controller in their modem to save me $35 bucks. I am still annoyed with them for not publishing their specs so people can make linux drivers for them. Some manufacturers DO publish their specs and for those, you can download drivers off the internet. Thankfully WAL*Mart took back the modem though.. If US Robotics would have published the specs for their modem, then I would have been able to download a driver for it and install it and would not have returned the modem.
I would rather give up a little unnoticable quality to be able to pay a lower price for a piece of hardware. Let those who want only the very best pay for it not me. So I would not hold 'cheats' against a video card company, I would consider the cost savings as good engineering on their part.
But not publishing the specs? That's silly. Software is patentable. In fact I am sure that nVidia and others pay each other megabucks to license patented accelleration techniques. That is one thing that worrys me about M$ buying OpenGL - Is it even possible to write a free OpenGL like library should MS decide to make it miserable? Give up your R&D budget by publishing the source to your drivers which are merely interfaces to your hardware? Silly! Any new and valuable IP produced by their R&D departments gets published and patented in the USPTO.
I think you'd want to keep your hydrates in a tank rated for holding pure methane at room temperature. Think of what would happen if the refrigeration units on your gas tank lost power on a hot summer day while your car was parked. The pressure of methane from the melting hydrates would crack a weak tank and start leaking methane. A passerby lights a ciggarette and BOOM!
If the student is warned in that fashion, and they still refuse to
complete the assigned homeworks, they deserve to get a lousy grade.
No! They don't! The purpose of a course grade is to provide a measure to others of how well a person comprehends the course material, NOT how well they comprehend a teacher's homework warning.
Why not do the homework? Because the homework is most likely crossword puzzles that do nothing to teach the kid the meanings of the vocabulary words for that week. In fact your kid probably already knew what every word on the list means before he was given the list. He will fail english for not spending a half hour every night inanely searching for stupid diagonal backwards words even though he aces every Vocab test.
Your smart kid will fail because homework is designed to make it possible for people who do not understand the material and can not pass tests to get a better grade by showing 'effort'. Those that understood the material before it was even presented to them in class, or at least after reading the chapter silently once while the rest of the class reads it aloud a paragraph at a time will fail or get a C minus, D or even in some classes an F average because they couldn't bring themselves to do the stupid homework.
Of course your kid probably does not know everything they teach in high school. Maybe they really need to study to pass their math exams. But the choice is between spending the time and energy to do five classes worth of useless homework to get decent grades or leaving the homework undone and spending that time and energy absorbing Algebra. The kid's grade point average is better if they accept the D in math and spend their time doing crossword puzzles and worksheets for the other five classes that they already know the material for. THe kid will never actually learn anything though.
Your kid will not be able to get into college while some hard working mediocre kid will. Your kid with a 180 IQ will spend his life woking at Burger King while the 'smart people' with 120 or s IQs will be doctors and lawyers and laugh at him. He will go insane and blow the place up and spend his time from then on as the b*tch of some guy named 'bubba'.
Cyanine.. Hmmm sounds an awful lot like cyanIDE to me. I wouldn't doubt if there were some CN pairs in whatever Cyanine is. It prolly decomposes into cyanide under certain circumstances or maybe over time or when you burn em. If you could find a chemical that decomposes cd's dye into HCN gas then you could use CDRs for an amateur gas chamber.
They should still use CO-CAINE. What's with this Nova-Caine and Arti-Caine. Enough of this smoke from the leaves, for a toothache you need the juice from the root.
I mean who knows what is living on that BK burger you're gonna snarf for lunch? Your frikken tongue could start to rot, and taste like compost spreading to your jawbone and face. To prevent certain death and blood poisoning they would probably have to remove your lower jaw leaving you a grotesque jawless tongueless freak for the rest of your life.
You can inhale the wrong strain of Aspergillis ( bread mold ) and POOF! you have a deadly infection in your nose that forces doctors to remove your nose and sinuses and half your face. Mucor is another one. Frikken flesh eating bacteria too! They'll eat you alive for crissakes! And you want to put a hole in your tongue that could let them in???!!?!?!?!
On the otherhand, alot of guys appreciate a girl with a tongue ring iffya know what I mean..
My wife was referred to an oral surgeon to have her wisdom teeth which had never grown in, but were crooked taken out. The dentist referred her because wisdom teeth like that increase the risk of gum disease.
However, the oral surgeon reccomended against having the wisdom teeth removed unless they were causing pain because the x-rays showed that a nerve that runs along the jaw was atypically close to where the wisdom teeth were in her jaw so there was a risk that he could damage it in the tooth extraction leaving her face numb for the rest of her life.
Since the wisdom teeth were not painful, she decided not to have the wisdom teeth removed.
I would say that as long as you were informed of the possible risks, then you can't expect SH*T never to happen, it does. But you should have at least been told of a risk if there was one. Of course some things that happen are completely unforseeable. Maybe the tongue thing is completely freaky and could not be expected. Anyhow, I would sue anyway because the guy has malpractice insurance and even if he did nothing wrong you should still claim your free money. I mean, if you don't have it his insurance company will. Wouldn't you rather have the dough than let his Ins company keep it? Get one of those TV lawyers that get paid when they win.
Of course that would drive up malpractice insurance rates slightly and that cost in turn would be passed on to patients through higher health insurance rates, but come on - If I can get ten grand for a numb tongue I don't give a tinker's damn about the 1/100 of a cent extra everyone else has to pay for health insurance, I'm getting my free Kia. I wouldn't expect anybody else to give up $10000 bucks for the 'cause of lower health insurance rates' and I certainly wouldn't give up $10000 easy bucks either.
The FBI can't spy on you, cause they're the government and that would be against the law but they can just hire someone from the private sector to do it. What's next? The FBI can't beat information out of suspects or enter your house w/o a warrant so they hire thugs to do it for you? Oh right that would be too blatantly obvious, instead they get bail bondsmen to hire Bounty Hunters to do that... I swear the government is like the frikken Mafia sometimes sticking layers and layers of henchmen between themselves and the dirty work.
Now that slow light is easy, we should be seeing the Mallet Temporal Ethernet Card in WAL*MART any day now!!
It consists of a vacuum tube surrounded by two helical rubys wrapped around in opposite directions. The momentum of the slow light traveling through the rubies warps spacetime in this device between the anode and the cathode of the tube. The electron beam is aimed so as to take a path through the warped spacetime region that will lead from cathode to the anode at a previous time.
Using this nifty device ( ONLY $19.95! on sale now at Best Buy! ) you can surf the web of the future easily! Just set the date you want to surf in your control panel and open a url.
How does it work? Your computer will save the http request on disc and send it out on the date you set in the control panel. On that date, it will recieve a reply and send the result back to your present self by encoding it as a cathode ray signal and sending it through the temporally warped region of the vacuum tube. The signal will travel from the cathode in the future to the anode of now.
Worried that your brand new outdated software will be incompatible with the future Internet? Will http be phased out? Not to worry!! You can download compatible software from the future using this device! To your computer the Mallet Temporal Network Card looks like any other ethernet card. It can even be used to surf the present by setting today's date in the control panel so you don't need to worry about finding slots for two network cards.
That's right, for just $19.95 you can download movies that haven't even been made yet! You can read tomorrow's obituaries and avoid a nasty car accident, you can play the Lottery and win - EVERY TIME! You can play the stock market without risk of losing your hard earned cash. Read books and download software that hasn't been written yet, and OWN THE COPYRIGHT! The possibilities are endless.
Mallet Temporal Network Card - How did you ever live without one?
In this case, the innocent are going to be punished anyway, either subscribers to the UDPd ISP get punished by not being able to post, or everyone gets punished by having their legitamate news service degraded into uselessness by spammers. It's not punish the innocent to get at the guilty, it's more like surgery to remove a cancer - sure you have innocent skin cells cut with a scalpel, but that allows the surgeon to remove a malignant tumor that would otherwise kill every cell in the body.
According to what I've read using lard-like saturated fats results in a biodiesel that freezes in the cold. But using unsaturated fats makes a biodiesel that is prone to polymerization along the kinks which gumms up yer fuel system. Does anyone know of a way of first hydrogenating vegetable oil, then cracking it into shorter chains so that it is both non polymerizing and short enough to remain liquid at low temperature?
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The first batch I made of neat ( unused ) vegitable (soybean) oil. I added the ethanol/lye to the oil which stayed at the bottom. I shook the jar and then the oil ( now converted to biodiesel ) floated to the top.
The second batch I made started with neat ( unused ) hydrogenated vegitable ( soybean ) oil AKA Crisco. I had to melt the Crisco on the stove before adding the ethanol/lye mixture. The reaction happened so fast at the elevated temperature that I am not sure if the unreacted melted crisco would have sunk or not in the ethanol/lye. I do know that the end product sunk in ethanol/lye but still floated in water.
The problem with the batch made from crisco was that it is solid at room temperature. No good for biodiesel. However, since soybean oil is naturally unsaturated, biodiesel made from it is liquid.
There is a problem with using unsaturated fats for fuel - they polymerize into 'gunk' in the conditions found in engines and eventually gum up the works.
Naturally saturated veggie oils tend to be expensive and are also usually solid at room temperature. What is needed is a way to use Crisco as a starting point but somehow shorten the hydrocarbon chains so that the saturated fuel can be liquid at room temperature.
Any chemist out there know how to take a methyl or ethyl ester from the biodiesel transesterification process and shorten the hydrocarbon chain? I've heard of cracking, but that sounds like a high temp/pressure/catalyst sort of process that would tend to destroy or remove the alcohol on the end. Any other ideas?
The ammount of the sale is higher for a rebate too so you have to pay sales tax on the ammount of the rebate.
Also, many larger rebates require the original recipt and a section to be cut out of the box. That makes collecting the rebate for something you are giving away difficult. Do you rudely give the person the recipt ( with the price ) or do you rudely cut up their box so they can't return it if they need to?
I got cheezed out of a $25.00 cell phone rebate that way.
I get pissed at trick finance like that. They should just quote the price and sell it simply. I have become so paranoid that I'm getting bamboozled by not having a calculator to compare prices that I'm starting to just buy the product with the simplest to understand price sticker without trying to figure out how/if the other brand is trying to screw me.
Probably the worst confusion is on big ticket items like cars. They have a rebate so that people who can't put money down on a car can just put the rebate down on the car which allows them to sell more cars. Basically, it ammounts to this: Bank doesn't want to give a low interest loan without a hefty down payment that will let the owner not be upside down on the loan once they drive off the lot. Bank would give the person ( with good credit but no downpayment ) a loan at a higher interest rate, but the customer would rather just wait till they have the money for a down payment than accept a 17% interest rate. But since the car company is also a bank, they offer to apply the rebate (made possible by jacking up the price of the car in the first place) to the downpayment. The rebate is approximately equal (or maybe a little more than ) the ammount of the added interest over the life of the loan. Since the sticker price of the car is more than the true cash value of the car ( even before it has been
driven off the lot because the price has been jacked up to make room for a rebate, the customer is even more upside down on their loan than they would have been if they had been able to buy at the after rebate price without a downpayment.
It doesn't produce Cold Fusion when used as an electrode in heavy water as advertised.
Another point: If only criminals can research bioweapons then only criminals will know anything about them. When one makes a superplague, nobody will no how to cure it if the line of research is forbidden.
That reminds me of an old story I was once told:
A family of four is driving to the ocean to sunbathe and swim, while passing an airbase they swerve to miss a stray cat and hit a gasoline tanker that blows up. The cloud of smoke obscures the vision of a pilot landing an airplane which causes him to crash into an ICBM silo. The missile launches causing world war three and the end of the world.
Should the family not be able to run the experiment of taking a drive to the ocean because of the infintessimally small risk of it causing the end of the world? Of course not.
I may have downloaded a song or two but I really don't care if I can download songs. I don't want to pay so other people can download songs either. I would rather not have the ability to download songs which I would not do because I DON'T WANT SONGS than pay so someone else can get their Back Street Boys fix. I also don't want my ISP to put in a firewall that would take away my ability to use P2P ( which has other uses besides music sharing but will never realize it's potential if it is regulated as a purely piratical technology - the restrictions will make other legitimate uses impossible ) The flat fee is unfair because it forces people who are not consumers of music to pay for it.
This has probably been asked but I am going to ask anyway: Why put Linux on an XBox? XBox sucks compared to the PS2. PS2 has way more gamez and a kewl blue LED! Who the heck would buy an XBox in the first place?
I'd buy a PS2 for a teenager so they could have a DVD player and a gaming station, and a Linux box to write book reports on in their room for cheap, but seriously, do you think a kid would want an XBox over a PS2? Come on!
As I became more and more familiar with linux I stopped using MS Windows entirely.
Having given away that old WinModem long ago, I recently bought a new internal modem from US Robotics ( a brand that I used to trust ) when my puppy ate my old Diamond Multimedia external modem. It worked fine on my wife's Windows partition, but I could not get it working on linux. So I looked up winmodems again, now pissed at US Robotics for putting out a crappy modem. I discovered that PRETTY MUCH ALL internal and usb modems are WinModems because the manufacturers leave out the controller chip in the modem and emulate it with proprietary software. So I returned the $25.00 US Robotics modem to Wal*Mart and bought an external serial Modem Blaster from Creative labs which although it cost $65.00, worked great under linux with no special drivers.
I have a Pentium 4 computer, and there have been WinModems since before the days of my old P1/233. The emulation does not significantly slow down the download speed or the performance of even the old P1/233 and certainly not a new P4.
I am not pissed at US Robotics for leaving out a controller in their modem to save me $35 bucks. I am still annoyed with them for not publishing their specs so people can make linux drivers for them. Some manufacturers DO publish their specs and for those, you can download drivers off the internet. Thankfully WAL*Mart took back the modem though.. If US Robotics would have published the specs for their modem, then I would have been able to download a driver for it and install it and would not have returned the modem.
I would rather give up a little unnoticable quality to be able to pay a lower price for a piece of hardware. Let those who want only the very best pay for it not me. So I would not hold 'cheats' against a video card company, I would consider the cost savings as good engineering on their part.
But not publishing the specs? That's silly. Software is patentable. In fact I am sure that nVidia and others pay each other megabucks to license patented accelleration techniques. That is one thing that worrys me about M$ buying OpenGL - Is it even possible to write a free OpenGL like library should MS decide to make it miserable? Give up your R&D budget by publishing the source to your drivers which are merely interfaces to your hardware? Silly! Any new and valuable IP produced by their R&D departments gets published and patented in the USPTO.
I think you'd want to keep your hydrates in a tank rated for holding pure methane at room temperature. Think of what would happen if the refrigeration units on your gas tank lost power on a hot summer day while your car was parked. The pressure of methane from the melting hydrates would crack a weak tank and start leaking methane. A passerby lights a ciggarette and BOOM!
No! They don't! The purpose of a course grade is to provide a measure to others of how well a person comprehends the course material, NOT how well they comprehend a teacher's homework warning.
Hawdey Haw Haw
I hate trinitrons. You always see thin black horizontal lines.
Your smart kid will fail because homework is designed to make it possible for people who do not understand the material and can not pass tests to get a better grade by showing 'effort'. Those that understood the material before it was even presented to them in class, or at least after reading the chapter silently once while the rest of the class reads it aloud a paragraph at a time will fail or get a C minus, D or even in some classes an F average because they couldn't bring themselves to do the stupid homework.
Of course your kid probably does not know everything they teach in high school. Maybe they really need to study to pass their math exams. But the choice is between spending the time and energy to do five classes worth of useless homework to get decent grades or leaving the homework undone and spending that time and energy absorbing Algebra. The kid's grade point average is better if they accept the D in math and spend their time doing crossword puzzles and worksheets for the other five classes that they already know the material for. THe kid will never actually learn anything though.
Your kid will not be able to get into college while some hard working mediocre kid will. Your kid with a 180 IQ will spend his life woking at Burger King while the 'smart people' with 120 or s IQs will be doctors and lawyers and laugh at him. He will go insane and blow the place up and spend his time from then on as the b*tch of some guy named 'bubba'.
Grand High Lord Pontificate and Amazing Poohbah Wizard of the Klu Klux Klan?
I want a blackjack interface please!
Cyanine.. Hmmm sounds an awful lot like cyanIDE to me. I wouldn't doubt if there were some CN pairs in whatever Cyanine is. It prolly decomposes into cyanide under certain circumstances or maybe over time or when you burn em. If you could find a chemical that decomposes cd's dye into HCN gas then you could use CDRs for an amateur gas chamber.
They should still use CO-CAINE. What's with this Nova-Caine and Arti-Caine. Enough of this smoke from the leaves, for a toothache you need the juice from the root.
You can inhale the wrong strain of Aspergillis ( bread mold ) and POOF! you have a deadly infection in your nose that forces doctors to remove your nose and sinuses and half your face. Mucor is another one. Frikken flesh eating bacteria too! They'll eat you alive for crissakes! And you want to put a hole in your tongue that could let them in???!!?!?!?!
On the otherhand, alot of guys appreciate a girl with a tongue ring iffya know what I mean..
However, the oral surgeon reccomended against having the wisdom teeth removed unless they were causing pain because the x-rays showed that a nerve that runs along the jaw was atypically close to where the wisdom teeth were in her jaw so there was a risk that he could damage it in the tooth extraction leaving her face numb for the rest of her life.
Since the wisdom teeth were not painful, she decided not to have the wisdom teeth removed.
I would say that as long as you were informed of the possible risks, then you can't expect SH*T never to happen, it does. But you should have at least been told of a risk if there was one. Of course some things that happen are completely unforseeable. Maybe the tongue thing is completely freaky and could not be expected. Anyhow, I would sue anyway because the guy has malpractice insurance and even if he did nothing wrong you should still claim your free money. I mean, if you don't have it his insurance company will. Wouldn't you rather have the dough than let his Ins company keep it? Get one of those TV lawyers that get paid when they win.
Of course that would drive up malpractice insurance rates slightly and that cost in turn would be passed on to patients through higher health insurance rates, but come on - If I can get ten grand for a numb tongue I don't give a tinker's damn about the 1/100 of a cent extra everyone else has to pay for health insurance, I'm getting my free Kia. I wouldn't expect anybody else to give up $10000 bucks for the 'cause of lower health insurance rates' and I certainly wouldn't give up $10000 easy bucks either.
The FBI can't spy on you, cause they're the government and that would be against the law but they can just hire someone from the private sector to do it. What's next? The FBI can't beat information out of suspects or enter your house w/o a warrant so they hire thugs to do it for you? Oh right that would be too blatantly obvious, instead they get bail bondsmen to hire Bounty Hunters to do that... I swear the government is like the frikken Mafia sometimes sticking layers and layers of henchmen between themselves and the dirty work.
It consists of a vacuum tube surrounded by two helical rubys wrapped around in opposite directions. The momentum of the slow light traveling through the rubies warps spacetime in this device between the anode and the cathode of the tube. The electron beam is aimed so as to take a path through the warped spacetime region that will lead from cathode to the anode at a previous time.
Using this nifty device ( ONLY $19.95! on sale now at Best Buy! ) you can surf the web of the future easily! Just set the date you want to surf in your control panel and open a url.
How does it work? Your computer will save the http request on disc and send it out on the date you set in the control panel. On that date, it will recieve a reply and send the result back to your present self by encoding it as a cathode ray signal and sending it through the temporally warped region of the vacuum tube. The signal will travel from the cathode in the future to the anode of now.
Worried that your brand new outdated software will be incompatible with the future Internet? Will http be phased out? Not to worry!! You can download compatible software from the future using this device! To your computer the Mallet Temporal Network Card looks like any other ethernet card. It can even be used to surf the present by setting today's date in the control panel so you don't need to worry about finding slots for two network cards.
That's right, for just $19.95 you can download movies that haven't even been made yet! You can read tomorrow's obituaries and avoid a nasty car accident, you can play the Lottery and win - EVERY TIME! You can play the stock market without risk of losing your hard earned cash. Read books and download software that hasn't been written yet, and OWN THE COPYRIGHT! The possibilities are endless.
Mallet Temporal Network Card - How did you ever live without one?
Usenet is THE place for Lolita Donkey Fuckers and Cartoon bondage anal fuck. MUCH better than the WWW with no popups.
In this case, the innocent are going to be punished anyway, either subscribers to the UDPd ISP get punished by not being able to post, or everyone gets punished by having their legitamate news service degraded into uselessness by spammers. It's not punish the innocent to get at the guilty, it's more like surgery to remove a cancer - sure you have innocent skin cells cut with a scalpel, but that allows the surgeon to remove a malignant tumor that would otherwise kill every cell in the body.
According to what I've read using lard-like saturated fats results in a biodiesel that freezes in the cold. But using unsaturated fats makes a biodiesel that is prone to polymerization along the kinks which gumms up yer fuel system. Does anyone know of a way of first hydrogenating vegetable oil, then cracking it into shorter chains so that it is both non polymerizing and short enough to remain liquid at low temperature?