With the internationally laughed at joke of a clusterfuck of voting systems in Florida in 2000 I have to admit I wonder why anyone thinks he can be trusted with the responsibility of a hot dog stand let alone a State or country.
So you think that was the result of *not* being good at what they were *really* trying to do?
This was idiots that put their SSN into the body of their emails, not a DB field named SSN.
Easy to miss; thinking 'nobody would be that stupid'. Floriduh!
You got any idea how big a percentage of communications to politicians are about the constituents' Social Security and/or Medicare accounts and problems with said accounts?
Neither do I, but I'll bet it ain't small, especially in a retiree magnet state like Florida, and if you want a politician to use leverage on your behalf with the SSA or whoever deals with Medicare, they're going to need to know your SSN so that the SSA or the Medicare people know who they're talking about.
any possible GOP candidate will get 100% negative media coverage
Yes, even an outsider like myself knows that the entire US media are nothing more than a front for the Communists/Illuminati.
Yeah, that's just what the Templars and the Rosacrucians want you to think.
No, wait, that's just what Opus Dei and the Freemasons want you to think that the Templars and the Rosacrucians want you to think.
No, wait, that's just what the Gnostics and The Elders of Zion want you to think that Opus Dei and the Freemasons want you to think that the Templars and the Rosacrucians want you to think.
No, wait, that's just what Ordo Templi Orientis and The Cathars want you to think that the Gnostics and The Elders of Zion want you to think that Opus Dei and the Freemasons want you to think that the Templars and the Rosacrucians want you to think.
No, wait, that's just what the Comte de Saint-Germain wants you to think that the the Priory of Sion wants you to think that Ordo Templi Orientis and The Cathars want you to think that the Gnostics and The Elders of Zion want you to think that Opus Dei and the Freemasons want you to think that the Templars and the Rosacrucians want you to think.
No, wait, that's just what the Jaycees want you to think that the Ascended Masters want you to think that the Comte de Saint-Germain...
I don't know. If you read any of the forums for media/news, you find 2 things. Putin Trolls attacking america and the president. And Republican trolls attacking america and the president. Wander over to yahoo news or cnn. Take a look.
We know who is paying the Putin trolls, but who is paying the republican trolls?
In both cases, parties wishing to loot the US in one way or another.
Yes - "Moot Court" is a think in law school where you pretend to have a trial. The headline makes it seem like the tunnel idea was cancelled in USAian English.
The headline made *me* think it was about an undersea "communications" link.
But I did wind up expanding my knowledge of the variations of meaning for the word "moot".
The monopoly happens when Staples, Office Depot, and Office Max banded together still aren't strong enough to survive the onslaughts of Wal-Mart/Sam's and Costco on the B&M side and Amazon (and maybe a little Quill) on the web side, and now there are 3 more empty buildings in town to keep company the places that used to be local hardware stores and lumberyards before Lowe's and Home Depot came to town.
No one ever bothered to tell me that it wasn't going to be a band across that had a non-linear top to bottom gradient, but that instead it would be more like a dart board or bulls eye, which means you have to stare absolutely straight ahead, and turn your entire head to see anything not directly in front of you, and that you would have pretty much no peripheral vision whatsoever.
Even if computers didn't exist, my advice would still be
AVOID THEM LIKE THE PLAGUE!
My other rant is about how the only thing available anymore are those ugly skinny frames where the lens height is no more than the width of 2 fingers, and for someone as nearsighted as I am, who needs something that gathers in lots of light, that would still be totally inadequate even if they weren't hideous looking.
But, hey, they save 37 cents worth of plastic and get to jack up the retail price by $20 or more because ironic hipsters or something.
... One friend of mine was an electrical engineer, and trying to describe to an electrician how he wanted his house wired (quite non-standard) was... an experience.
...
In that particular instance, the electrician may have been trying to figure out how to give the guy what he wanted while remaining in compliance with however much of the NEC carries the weight of law in that particular jurisdiction and how he was going to get the local inspector to agree that he wasn't in violation.
Was he trying for all home runs and isolated grounds?
Explain to me how the Christ you would "fix by repairing" a RAM chip.
When burne referred to swapping sub-assemblies as not being 'repairing', and PRMan countered with the contention that "Replacing bad RAM on your motherboard absolutely IS fixing your computer.", I assumed we were talking swapping in a new SIMM or DIMM.
Trying to do electron-microscopy level microsurgery inside an individual integrated circuit package may well be nigh on impossible, but with the right tools, equipment, and materials, and some SMD soldering experience, one could replace an IC on a RAM stick, which would be repairing fixing, whereas just snapping a new RAM module into the socket would be replacing fixing.
Of course this pre-supposes that one could lay hands upon the correct replacement IC to repair the RAM module (after figuring out which of the several on there needs replacing), and it's not impossible that a little cannibalization might be required, but you might be able to turn two bad sticks into one good one.
Yes, pretty much, although to be honest it's been a number of years since I rewound a motor or undercut a commutator, and the car window motor referred to may not even have a commutator and brushes, but be some sort of PWM'ed stationary windings direct drive type, and the repair wouldn't be on a burnt out winding but on a fried switching transistor. I haven't disassembled any cars in a long time, either.
Replacing bad RAM on your motherboard absolutely IS fixing your computer. Just like when I replaced the window motor on my car, I bought a $25 sub-assembly and plugged in two wiring harnesses and put in 2 screws. Just because I never used a soldering iron doesn't make it invalid.
And therein lies the difference between fixing by repairing and fixing by replacing.
You're ahead of those who aren't even aware of the concept of a wiring harness, but way behind the person who would have fixed by repairing by rewinding the motor.
If anyone had taken assembler and machine coding back in the old days of computing, they'd get it. You only have so much to code with, so you make it do multiple things.
A better analogy would be a huge bloated computer program that evolved over many decades - where changing (or removing) one little thing in one place can break things in dozens of other unexpected places - but where if you were to rewrite the entire thing from scratch you could reduce the size of the code base by a factor of a hundred while still preserving all the functionality (and also eliminating lots of bugs).
Very few biologists would imagine that you could go through the human genome and excise all the "junk" regions and still end up with a healthy human. But many would agree that some hyper-intelligent entity could almost certainly design a new species that looked and acted human but with a genome that was a hundred times smaller.
No doubt we were intelligently designed to appear to have been the result of thousands and thousands of years of trial and error for some mysterious reason that is beyond the comprehension abilities of us mere mortals.
Or maybe we were intelligently designed with all that extra "code" so as to be able to evolve should it become necessary.
I have an unshakeable, almost religious faith in the ID proponents ability to come up with some sort of explanation of how evolution never happened because pocketwatches.
phono is is a preamp setting because of the low current/voltage output of the needle. Nothing more or less, you should get out more.
Not true. In addition to amplification, a phono pre-amp also has to apply the R.I.A.A. equalization curve which is the reverse of the one used on the feed to the cutter head when the master disc is recorded.
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So we should let them pipe it down to a Gulf of Mexico port and put it on a ship because nothing bad will happen to those ships?
The safest option is to let Canada transport the stuff across Canada to a Canadian port.
...then there's a Giant Rat of Sumatra joke in there somewhere.
You ruined my workday. I had nothing to do but *shudder* work all day.
So businesses everywhere experienced a huge spike in productivity due to a Slashdot uneffect?
If you vote for Scott Walker the sun ain't gonna shine anymore.
I'm probably the only other person around here old enough to get that one.
With the internationally laughed at joke of a clusterfuck of voting systems in Florida in 2000 I have to admit I wonder why anyone thinks he can be trusted with the responsibility of a hot dog stand let alone a State or country.
So you think that was the result of *not* being good at what they were *really* trying to do?
This was idiots that put their SSN into the body of their emails, not a DB field named SSN.
Easy to miss; thinking 'nobody would be that stupid'. Floriduh!
You got any idea how big a percentage of communications to politicians are about the constituents' Social Security and/or Medicare accounts and problems with said accounts?
Neither do I, but I'll bet it ain't small, especially in a retiree magnet state like Florida, and if you want a politician to use leverage on your behalf with the SSA or whoever deals with Medicare, they're going to need to know your SSN so that the SSA or the Medicare people know who they're talking about.
any possible GOP candidate will get 100% negative media coverage
Yes, even an outsider like myself knows that the entire US media are nothing more than a front for the Communists/Illuminati.
Yeah, that's just what the Templars and the Rosacrucians want you to think.
No, wait, that's just what Opus Dei and the Freemasons want you to think that the Templars and the Rosacrucians want you to think.
No, wait, that's just what the Gnostics and The Elders of Zion want you to think that Opus Dei and the Freemasons want you to think that the Templars and the Rosacrucians want you to think.
No, wait, that's just what Ordo Templi Orientis and The Cathars want you to think that the Gnostics and The Elders of Zion want you to think that Opus Dei and the Freemasons want you to think that the Templars and the Rosacrucians want you to think.
No, wait, that's just what the Comte de Saint-Germain wants you to think that the the Priory of Sion wants you to think that Ordo Templi Orientis and The Cathars want you to think that the Gnostics and The Elders of Zion want you to think that Opus Dei and the Freemasons want you to think that the Templars and the Rosacrucians want you to think.
No, wait, that's just what the Jaycees want you to think that the Ascended Masters want you to think that the Comte de Saint-Germain...
I don't know. If you read any of the forums for media/news, you find 2 things. Putin Trolls attacking america and the president. And Republican trolls attacking america and the president. Wander over to yahoo news or cnn. Take a look.
We know who is paying the Putin trolls, but who is paying the republican trolls?
In both cases, parties wishing to loot the US in one way or another.
Yes - "Moot Court" is a think in law school where you pretend to have a trial. The headline makes it seem like the tunnel idea was cancelled in USAian English.
The headline made *me* think it was about an undersea "communications" link.
But I did wind up expanding my knowledge of the variations of meaning for the word "moot".
Did you ever even get your spandex jacket?
What monopoly?
The monopoly happens when Staples, Office Depot, and Office Max banded together still aren't strong enough to survive the onslaughts of Wal-Mart/Sam's and Costco on the B&M side and Amazon (and maybe a little Quill) on the web side, and now there are 3 more empty buildings in town to keep company the places that used to be local hardware stores and lumberyards before Lowe's and Home Depot came to town.
And the employer who expects the employees to help cheat the customers will always cheat the employees.
EXACTLY!
No one ever bothered to tell me that it wasn't going to be a band across that had a non-linear top to bottom gradient, but that instead it would be more like a dart board or bulls eye, which means you have to stare absolutely straight ahead, and turn your entire head to see anything not directly in front of you, and that you would have pretty much no peripheral vision whatsoever.
Even if computers didn't exist, my advice would still be
AVOID THEM LIKE THE PLAGUE!
My other rant is about how the only thing available anymore are those ugly skinny frames where the lens height is no more than the width of 2 fingers, and for someone as nearsighted as I am, who needs something that gathers in lots of light, that would still be totally inadequate even if they weren't hideous looking.
But, hey, they save 37 cents worth of plastic and get to jack up the retail price by $20 or more because ironic hipsters or something.
... ... an experience.
One friend of mine was an electrical engineer, and trying to describe to an electrician how he wanted his house wired (quite non-standard) was
...
In that particular instance, the electrician may have been trying to figure out how to give the guy what he wanted while remaining in compliance with however much of the NEC carries the weight of law in that particular jurisdiction and how he was going to get the local inspector to agree that he wasn't in violation.
Was he trying for all home runs and isolated grounds?
Explain to me how the Christ you would "fix by repairing" a RAM chip.
When burne referred to swapping sub-assemblies as not being 'repairing', and PRMan countered with the contention that "Replacing bad RAM on your motherboard absolutely IS fixing your computer.", I assumed we were talking swapping in a new SIMM or DIMM.
Trying to do electron-microscopy level microsurgery inside an individual integrated circuit package may well be nigh on impossible, but with the right tools, equipment, and materials, and some SMD soldering experience, one could replace an IC on a RAM stick, which would be repairing fixing, whereas just snapping a new RAM module into the socket would be replacing fixing.
Of course this pre-supposes that one could lay hands upon the correct replacement IC to repair the RAM module (after figuring out which of the several on there needs replacing), and it's not impossible that a little cannibalization might be required, but you might be able to turn two bad sticks into one good one.
You mean replacing the windings?
Yes, pretty much, although to be honest it's been a number of years since I rewound a motor or undercut a commutator, and the car window motor referred to may not even have a commutator and brushes, but be some sort of PWM'ed stationary windings direct drive type, and the repair wouldn't be on a burnt out winding but on a fried switching transistor. I haven't disassembled any cars in a long time, either.
Replacing bad RAM on your motherboard absolutely IS fixing your computer. Just like when I replaced the window motor on my car, I bought a $25 sub-assembly and plugged in two wiring harnesses and put in 2 screws. Just because I never used a soldering iron doesn't make it invalid.
And therein lies the difference between fixing by repairing and fixing by replacing.
You're ahead of those who aren't even aware of the concept of a wiring harness, but way behind the person who would have fixed by repairing by rewinding the motor.
...I hope they wind up having to pay her treble (clef) damages.
What, is Facebook down as well?
So you're saying that Twitter was designed by the same people that did the accelerator controls for Toyota?
If anyone had taken assembler and machine coding back in the old days of computing, they'd get it. You only have so much to code with, so you make it do multiple things.
A better analogy would be a huge bloated computer program that evolved over many decades - where changing (or removing) one little thing in one place can break things in dozens of other unexpected places - but where if you were to rewrite the entire thing from scratch you could reduce the size of the code base by a factor of a hundred while still preserving all the functionality (and also eliminating lots of bugs).
Very few biologists would imagine that you could go through the human genome and excise all the "junk" regions and still end up with a healthy human. But many would agree that some hyper-intelligent entity could almost certainly design a new species that looked and acted human but with a genome that was a hundred times smaller.
No doubt we were intelligently designed to appear to have been the result of thousands and thousands of years of trial and error for some mysterious reason that is beyond the comprehension abilities of us mere mortals.
Or maybe we were intelligently designed with all that extra "code" so as to be able to evolve should it become necessary.
I have an unshakeable, almost religious faith in the ID proponents ability to come up with some sort of explanation of how evolution never happened because pocketwatches.
With your kind permission, there's a long-running thread at tivocommunity.com
http://www.tivocommunity.com/t...
where this would be an apropos entry.
But the article is about Write-Only Memory. It can't be read, it can only be written to.
phono is is a preamp setting because of the low current/voltage output of the needle. Nothing more or less, you should get out more.
Not true. In addition to amplification, a phono pre-amp also has to apply the R.I.A.A. equalization curve which is the reverse of the one used on the feed to the cutter head when the master disc is recorded.
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