I'm a big fan of humor, and jockularity in many forms, I guess what threw me was the lack of a taletale sign of humor.
Maybe something like "New Mexico, like old Mexico, but cleaner" or perhaps "California, land of fruits and nuts." Both of those would be hard to see as anything but jokes. Just comming out and saying something is useless, without a punch line or setup can be taken either way.
Now as for your holier than thou condensending attitude, well, I'll just let that be...
Something useful? Any idea where solar research comes from? Places like Sandia National Labs. How about atomic research? Los Alamos National Labs. Aeronotics and space research? White Sands. Guess which state all three are in? Yep, that's right. Want to guess where trolls come from? That big shiny reflective thing in your bathroom. If only there was some way to mod you 'Moron'....
"Before the advent of mechanical refrigeration, some AC was done with evaporative air coolers. (for cinemas at the start of the 20th century)."
And to this day. 'Swamp Coolers' are still in use, still sold and installed and still used every hot day in the southwest US, namely NM and AZ where it is hot, but low humidity. Medium to High humidity causes them to be ineffecient and will make you more miserable than the heat, but in places with humidity averages in the low 20%, they work extremely well. Ater all, it might be a 105, but it's a DRY heat.
Wow. How is the weather on planet Oblivious? Is their sun, Naive, still burning brightly?
Vicious code writers haven't targeted Mac's because of the low count. Why would they spend hours writing code to exploit a few thousand computers when they can write code to exploit a few million? Simple numbers, nothing else.
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Doubtful. Most people don't realize (at least here in the US) that the phone companies own the interconnects, and thus, the backbone of the internet. If you put the telco's out of business with the internet, guess where the internet goes?
Kind of like the theory that if you want to get rid of heart disease, remove everyone's heart. That is the only quick, easy, and sure fire way to do it. Once all the hearts have been removed, there will be no more heart disease, or cancer, or crime, or overpopulation......
So by your logic, if I disagree with something the government says or does then I shouldn't write my congressmen, I should just disassociate myself with anything government related?
Free speech is a great thing, when used. When not used, it is usually lost.
I'll be damned if any company is going to dictate how I use their product. Free or not, if I don't like their policys or rules, I WILL complain, and I WILL stop using their products/services. Telling people to just accept it and not complain goes against the free market economy. Hell, it's damn near communism.
Clara Barton was instrumental in campaigning for the ratification of the First Geneva Convention by the United States; the U.S. signed in 1882.
Or do you have some other souce that disputes that?
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I agree. It is more socio-political than economics, but I do disagree with the need. For thousands of years, man has gotten by without cell phones. They are a luxary, not a required item. Hell, my 85 year old grandparents just got a cell phone. They never turn it on, but it's there in case of a medical emergency when they are away from home. I don't trust the cell company's farther than I can throw them. Recent disasters (9/11, Hurricanes, etc.) have proven that even if you have backup power, the entire network gets overloaded or a CO getting knocked out can take out service to an entire region. The cell co's aren't the only one's to blame. I despise them, but realize they are a necssary evil.
Also, just curious how much did all that redundance at the chicken farm cost?
And just for what it's worth, I am an amateur radio operator. We provide communications "when all else fails" as in the previous examples. I have a spot reserved in the local EOC with my name on it and have done disaster planning for several years.
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Yes, the POTS lines stayed up. If you had any clue how the POTS systems or cell systems worked, you would realize how silly that argument was. In a nutshell (I'm good at nutshells, people tell me I'm nuttier than a squirrel turd.)
The POTS line in your house is run from a CO (Central Office) with usually one big telephone switch, which is easy to have one big battery bank (usually there is one set of batteries in each cabinet to prevent any one cabinet from failing). In the event of a catastrophic power failure (loss of grid power) the internal cabinet batteries keep a tone on the line until the building backup generator gets warmed up and provide an external source of power. Everything is centrally located, easy to maintain, and in most cases, the generator never comes on because the cabinets will power themselves for at least an hour before they start dropping out.
Now, when you lose the grid, imagine having to try to maintain the same scenario in 20 locations. Each tower must have a battery back system (which requires routine maintenance), and a generator in the event of a longer outage (more routine maintenance) plus if the tower is on a building, you have the problem of the landlord letting you store large banks of potentially explosive batteries, a generator, a large tank of explosive fuel. Also, the generators have to be fired every so often to make sure they don't have a problem, plus storage of fuel for said generators has to be stabilized, or rotated so you don't have "bad gas" in your backup system that would take it down.
Now, you've spent millions of dollars in getting your towers on a reliable source of power. You now have the problem of providing a SECOND source of power for the incoming line from the CO. Being a multi trunked line, it isn't powered by the CO's emergency power like your POTS line is. You must supply 24-96 volts and it might be a proprietary -48Vdc system. So you are looking at even more things to fail.
It's not quite as simple as plugging an APC UPS into your home computer, and as soon as you do all of this, the power goes out, your battery bank explodes because of a bad cell (happened to our local PD on the last power outage drill) and the site goes down anyway. Now you have to answer to your customers who want to sue you because they couldn't call 911 on their cell phones.
Ok, a little more than a nutshell, but still not too in depth.
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You wont be moving in until 11 months ago?
Maybe something like "New Mexico, like old Mexico, but cleaner" or perhaps "California, land of fruits and nuts."
Both of those would be hard to see as anything but jokes. Just comming out and saying something is useless, without a punch line or setup can be taken either way.
Now as for your holier than thou condensending attitude, well, I'll just let that be...
Something useful? Any idea where solar research comes from? Places like Sandia National Labs. How about atomic research? Los Alamos National Labs. Aeronotics and space research? White Sands. Guess which state all three are in? Yep, that's right. Want to guess where trolls come from? That big shiny reflective thing in your bathroom. If only there was some way to mod you 'Moron'....
"Before the advent of mechanical refrigeration, some AC was done with evaporative air coolers. (for cinemas at the start of the 20th century)."
And to this day. 'Swamp Coolers' are still in use, still sold and installed and still used every hot day in the southwest US, namely NM and AZ where it is hot, but low humidity. Medium to High humidity causes them to be ineffecient and will make you more miserable than the heat, but in places with humidity averages in the low 20%, they work extremely well. Ater all, it might be a 105, but it's a DRY heat.
It was a great battlecry in 1776, but that's pretty much where it endend. It's not a law, nor a right, and still exists in the USA! Just have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_taxation_without_r epresentation Washington, DC's license plates....
Wow. How is the weather on planet Oblivious? Is their sun, Naive, still burning brightly?
Vicious code writers haven't targeted Mac's because of the low count. Why would they spend hours writing code to exploit a few thousand computers when they can write code to exploit a few million? Simple numbers, nothing else.
"Somebody should tell them that elements are very GeoCities 1997"
{html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"}
You were close, they are soooo 1999....
Doubtful. Most people don't realize (at least here in the US) that the phone companies own the interconnects, and thus, the backbone of the internet. If you put the telco's out of business with the internet, guess where the internet goes?
Kind of like the theory that if you want to get rid of heart disease, remove everyone's heart. That is the only quick, easy, and sure fire way to do it. Once all the hearts have been removed, there will be no more heart disease, or cancer, or crime, or overpopulation......
So by your logic, if I disagree with something the government says or does then I shouldn't write my congressmen, I should just disassociate myself with anything government related?
Free speech is a great thing, when used. When not used, it is usually lost.
I'll be damned if any company is going to dictate how I use their product. Free or not, if I don't like their policys or rules, I WILL complain, and I WILL stop using their products/services. Telling people to just accept it and not complain goes against the free market economy. Hell, it's damn near communism.
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Clara Barton was instrumental in campaigning for the ratification of the First Geneva Convention by the United States; the U.S. signed in 1882.
Or do you have some other souce that disputes that?
I agree. It is more socio-political than economics, but I do disagree with the need. For thousands of years, man has gotten by without cell phones. They are a luxary, not a required item. Hell, my 85 year old grandparents just got a cell phone. They never turn it on, but it's there in case of a medical emergency when they are away from home. I don't trust the cell company's farther than I can throw them. Recent disasters (9/11, Hurricanes, etc.) have proven that even if you have backup power, the entire network gets overloaded or a CO getting knocked out can take out service to an entire region. The cell co's aren't the only one's to blame. I despise them, but realize they are a necssary evil.
Also, just curious how much did all that redundance at the chicken farm cost?
And just for what it's worth, I am an amateur radio operator. We provide communications "when all else fails" as in the previous examples. I have a spot reserved in the local EOC with my name on it and have done disaster planning for several years.
Yes, the POTS lines stayed up. If you had any clue how the POTS systems or cell systems worked, you would realize how silly that argument was. In a nutshell (I'm good at nutshells, people tell me I'm nuttier than a squirrel turd.) The POTS line in your house is run from a CO (Central Office) with usually one big telephone switch, which is easy to have one big battery bank (usually there is one set of batteries in each cabinet to prevent any one cabinet from failing). In the event of a catastrophic power failure (loss of grid power) the internal cabinet batteries keep a tone on the line until the building backup generator gets warmed up and provide an external source of power. Everything is centrally located, easy to maintain, and in most cases, the generator never comes on because the cabinets will power themselves for at least an hour before they start dropping out. Now, when you lose the grid, imagine having to try to maintain the same scenario in 20 locations. Each tower must have a battery back system (which requires routine maintenance), and a generator in the event of a longer outage (more routine maintenance) plus if the tower is on a building, you have the problem of the landlord letting you store large banks of potentially explosive batteries, a generator, a large tank of explosive fuel. Also, the generators have to be fired every so often to make sure they don't have a problem, plus storage of fuel for said generators has to be stabilized, or rotated so you don't have "bad gas" in your backup system that would take it down. Now, you've spent millions of dollars in getting your towers on a reliable source of power. You now have the problem of providing a SECOND source of power for the incoming line from the CO. Being a multi trunked line, it isn't powered by the CO's emergency power like your POTS line is. You must supply 24-96 volts and it might be a proprietary -48Vdc system. So you are looking at even more things to fail. It's not quite as simple as plugging an APC UPS into your home computer, and as soon as you do all of this, the power goes out, your battery bank explodes because of a bad cell (happened to our local PD on the last power outage drill) and the site goes down anyway. Now you have to answer to your customers who want to sue you because they couldn't call 911 on their cell phones. Ok, a little more than a nutshell, but still not too in depth.
Capricorn Tech? They power the Internet Archive. "Capricorn Technologies was founded in 2004 and provides petabyte-class storage solutions for organizations worldwide. Capricorn's PetaBox technology grew out of a search for high density, low cost, low power storage systems for the world's largest data collections. Capricorn Technologies is proud to be a leader in the next data storage revolution."