Seems like the math ought to be that same 1% plus whatever influence Earth's gravity has in pulling things in. (That number might be say 0.0102) To calculate your chances on a given day its that times the percentage of asteroids big enough to care about, times frequency that those show up. There are a whole lotta zeroes after that decimal point which is why watching for 'em isn't funded .
The stock market ran the prices for these big companies up to the moon. Then they bought each other out with billions and billions of dollars worth of phoney-baloney debt and stock. The cable rates are just what it takes to pay off the banks and shareholders. Imagine if $10k of your new $35k SUV went just to pay off all the crazy things Ford or GMC bought.. maybe it does..
This fixes the mouse problem for me : using a rowing machine seems to pull everything back into place and stops all the aches and tingles.
To fix neck aches I stuck the monitors up on cinderblocks on top of the desk so that if I sit up straight and look directly ahead I see the exact center of the tube. Squinting and hunching down to see too small of a monitor placed right on a desk harms your neck - you only get one neck.
I'd bet that the writer(s) of the Kazaa killer got big bucks, though how and/or from whom we may never know. I'd also bet that the makers of anti-virus software probably write many of the viruses just to keep sales up..
If only the Bearshare people would or could fix
whatever causes their program to leave dozens and dozens of sockets open forever, Kazaa would would just fade away all by itself . Ah well .
Here are some numbers : scrap steel is worth about a penny per pound, so a junky old AT case is maybe worth less than 1/3 of a snickers bar as metal. Mixed scrap aluminium & steel ( power supplies & drives ) are worth under 10 cents a pound, so thats another 1/3 snickers from our AT. Scrap circuit boards are worth just over $1 per pound. Figure the labor to take the AT apart, pick it up, and all the other fixed costs, and the snickers bar is not yet paid for from one AT.
TVs and monitors cost the recycler money to send out to a specialty glass furnace. One way to know if someone really is recycling the monitors is to see who is paying for them to be melted safely.
Squashing an old AT for metal might just be the kindest thing that ever happened to it..It seems like there ought to be a rec.collecting.comp (similar to the stamp collecting newsgroups) for other old stuff that only a collector would want.
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Seems like the math ought to be that same 1% plus whatever influence Earth's gravity has in pulling things in. (That number might be say 0.0102) To calculate your chances on a given day its that times the percentage of asteroids big enough to care about, times frequency that those show up. There are a whole lotta zeroes after that decimal point which is why watching for 'em isn't funded .
The stock market ran the prices for these big companies up to the moon. Then they bought each other out with billions and billions of dollars worth of phoney-baloney debt and stock. The cable rates are just what it takes to pay off the banks and shareholders. Imagine if $10k of your new $35k SUV went just to pay off all the crazy things Ford or GMC bought.. maybe it does..
This fixes the mouse problem for me : using a rowing machine seems to pull everything back into place and stops all the aches and tingles. To fix neck aches I stuck the monitors up on cinderblocks on top of the desk so that if I sit up straight and look directly ahead I see the exact center of the tube. Squinting and hunching down to see too small of a monitor placed right on a desk harms your neck - you only get one neck.
I'd bet that the writer(s) of the Kazaa killer got big bucks, though how and/or from whom we may never know. I'd also bet that the makers of anti-virus software probably write many of the viruses just to keep sales up ..
If only the Bearshare people would or could fix whatever causes their program to leave dozens and dozens of sockets open forever, Kazaa would would just fade away all by itself . Ah well .
Here are some numbers : scrap steel is worth about a penny per pound, so a junky old AT case is maybe worth less than 1/3 of a snickers bar as metal. Mixed scrap aluminium & steel ( power supplies & drives ) are worth under 10 cents a pound, so thats another 1/3 snickers from our AT. Scrap circuit boards are worth just over $1 per pound. Figure the labor to take the AT apart, pick it up, and all the other fixed costs, and the snickers bar is not yet paid for from one AT. TVs and monitors cost the recycler money to send out to a specialty glass furnace. One way to know if someone really is recycling the monitors is to see who is paying for them to be melted safely. Squashing an old AT for metal might just be the kindest thing that ever happened to it ..It seems like there ought to be a rec.collecting.comp (similar to the stamp collecting newsgroups) for other old stuff that only a collector would want.