This is a great site.. kids build cool stuff and show it off to teachers and friends alike! :
they also learn at least the rudiments of programming processors! the kits are cheap and great fun...
www.nerdkits.com
I have an LED headlight for my bicycle.. its very bright.. and very expensive.. it cost $200, and its the cheapest way to obtain safe night-riding ability.
and ive never ever noticed any weirdness to its color spectrum.. Of course, at night one is not looking for incorrect color rendition.. nonetheless, it works, it makes night into day, it keeps me alive... and for those advantages, its priceless.
tkjtkj@gmail.com
The basis of this article is patently absurd: taking a 'dictionary-like' definition of 'cervical cancer and applying it to the issue as the article does is a grotesque misapplication of science, of logic, and of medical knowledge.
Get this: 'cervical cancer' refers to cancer that BEGINS IN THE CERVIX!!!! get it??
Many patients who have HAD cervical cancer and have been appropriately treated by a cervectomy STILL can experience cervical cancer!!
The operation might not have removed all the cancerous tissue! These people, in the judgement of their doctor(s) deserve to have their lives protected by continued PAP smears.
The article is garbage, on its face!
j. anderson, md (ret.)
tkjtkj@gmail.com
Exactly! The FAA's approach to technology and air safety has been irresponsible at best. If theyv'e been at this for 30 years, then i gaurantee that what they have in mind is to actually use equipment
from that era!!
Their approach to safety was the reason why i left
the aircraft industry (am a mech. engineer).
Under the Bush administration changes have increased risks, not the reverse: crowding of airspace, letting carriers do their own inspections of aircraft, attacking the Flight Controllers union, understaffing in retaliation, keeping secret the news of the extremely serious problems at Quantus hidden from the US's public view... On and on...
Its entirely conceivable that their "ultimate plan" is to get out of the "business" of safety management, quality control, and flight management. I betcha they see computers and satellites as the pathway to that goal!
Its nothing short of criminal.
j. anderson, m.e., m.d.
This was not a simple 'change of background', folks! It was a totally inept 'youthful-izing' excercise that presented her persona as much more vibrant, youthful, and 'General Officer - like' !!
It also was a lie about the technology the photographer used in making the shot!
I commend AP in its 'zero tolerance' for this type of deceit. You might disagree with me and find the pic acceptable, but that is not the real issue at all: the issue is simply "can we trust what the DoD or even AP show us?"
Without a strict policy such as AP's we could have a news media whose veracity is always to be suspect . For me, that would not be tolerable.
Wouldnt itsy bitsy teenie weenie black holes (like the BlackHoleGenerator in Europe, now being repaired, is about to demonstrate) do the same thing??
first... 'apostrophe's began to disappear.. Later they noticed a missing toolbag... then
a spider!
oh god! when will it e....
Pray tell why the " [sic] " follows "credibility"
in the article?
ref: ".. Allchin wrote to Ballmer. 'What a mess. Now we have an upset partner, Microsoft destroyed credibility [sic], as well as my own credibility shot.' "
Is it that you think its misspelled? (It isn't.)
Interestingly, i've yet to hear anyone say that the extraordinarily longer-than-planned endurance of these machines really represents that they were
'over-designed' and that money therefore was wasted!
If a 3 month mission is what they were after, then building the thing so it lasted 20 times as long is good for science, perhaps, except for the fact that the unnecessary quality and design features might represent expenses that could have been used for other scientific purposes that could provide us with much more-valuable data concerning problems much more in need of solution than merely to see how long the thing can last!
tell *that* to the guys who screwed up the programming on one of those intended-mars-lander missions! Remember?? it collided with martian surface because of an error in units ! Wish i could rememember the exact mission...
Anyone??
tkjtkj
You must be joking, really! I did think this line of yours was meant to be sarcastic :
"In any other case, the judge will surveillance must be shut down and the records sealed immediately. This law has been so effective that out of the hundreds of FISA taps exactly ZERO have been denied."
Can you really be suggesting that the gov's record
in this is 100% perfect?? that they never erred,
never deceived the courts? never never never? in hundreds of cases??... especially in this present administration which has been falgrant in its lack of cooperation, even including purposefully frustrating court reviews!!!
Wake up.
i recall clearly stating to the effect that yes, it
was an inference.
i also know that it'd be a rare gang that discussed
illegalities in the presence of others of whom
they were not totally confident , that they did not fully trust. And girlfriends in many gangs are *required* to experience sex with members.
That is not an inference.
Anyone who is old enough to have followed news
reports about lifestyles within some 'rogue, biker
gangs' will understand how outrageous is this
excerpt from the article:
"The arrests cap a three-year undercover investigation in which US agents posed as gang members and their girlfriends to infiltrate the group,.."
Females inducted into certain such groups are expected to provide sexual favors to others. The
initiation rituals published in publicly-available
reports describe the sexual demands made of females in the group. To imagine that female law enforcement agents would involve themselves with such behaviours as part of investigative work is, frankly, horrendous. Even police 'anti-hooker' details do not go so far as that!.. and with good reason. If the article is true, what has happened to our sense of 'right and wrong' if this behaviour of female investigators is condoned??
I cant recall any commercial ive ever seen that
had one of the actors paying the other...
or perhaps there's some 'higher level accounting
methodologies' that could be used to obfuscate the reality of it??
CPA's...! Tell us !
It was 30 years ago, or so, that i saw pictures
taken from an orbiting satellite that peered down
to a golf course.
The final enlarged image was that of the golf-ball.
I shall never forget what it displayed:
" Titleist " !!
And i suspect, after 30 years and trillions of dollars, that the capabilities are improved, to put it mildly!!!!!!!
Today, 8/20/08, on docking my ORIG version iPhone,
i was told i coujld upgrade to v. 2.0.2
so i did so..
I also tried to view the link on the 'update?' box that was described as letting me view the fixes
(ie, the last of the several links in the 'Agreement' box). Naturally, at that site there
was NO ref to any fix, even clicking the 'iphone' dropdown menu revealed nothing about it.
BUT, interestingly, there was a 'how to transfer
your original iphone config to a new G3 unit' that
included wording including this:
"If you wish to change your carrier (!!!), first
ask your new carrier how to do it.. " (a rough
sort-of-a-quotation)
Does this mean Apple is preparing to let carriers other than ATT work with the iphone???????
you must be joking! To say that an asteroid
having a diameter 3 times as long as a football
field, and travelling at 18,000 miles per hour
and colliding with earth would merely destroy an area the size of Manhattan??
Do you have data for such a misguided assertion?
True, yet the odds are enormously larger that the number of objects smaller than 300m is considerably greater than the number that can be detected. This, logically, makes it relatively pointless to search for 'the biggies' when the risk of a cataclysmic sterilizing event secondary to a smaller, less than 300m , object has to be considerably higher.
but yes, as i commented, huge objects, even the size of earth itself, can theoretically have their orbits significantly changed, given enough time.. Didnt i say about 64,000 years was the time proposed to 'save the earth' from the heat effects of our expanding and dying Sun ?
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This is a great site .. kids build cool stuff and show it off to teachers and friends alike! :
they also learn at least the rudiments of programming processors! the kits are cheap and great fun ...
www.nerdkits.com
I have an LED headlight for my bicycle.. its very bright .. and very expensive .. it cost $200, and its the cheapest way to obtain safe night-riding ability.
and ive never ever noticed any weirdness to its color spectrum .. Of course, at night one is not looking for incorrect color rendition .. nonetheless, it works, it makes night into day, it keeps me alive... and for those advantages, its priceless.
tkjtkj@gmail.com
The basis of this article is patently absurd: taking a 'dictionary-like' definition of 'cervical cancer and applying it to the issue as the article does is a grotesque misapplication of science, of logic, and of medical knowledge. Get this: 'cervical cancer' refers to cancer that BEGINS IN THE CERVIX!!!! get it?? Many patients who have HAD cervical cancer and have been appropriately treated by a cervectomy STILL can experience cervical cancer!! The operation might not have removed all the cancerous tissue! These people, in the judgement of their doctor(s) deserve to have their lives protected by continued PAP smears. The article is garbage, on its face! j. anderson, md (ret.) tkjtkj@gmail.com
Exactly! The FAA's approach to technology and air safety has been irresponsible at best. If theyv'e been at this for 30 years, then i gaurantee that what they have in mind is to actually use equipment from that era!! Their approach to safety was the reason why i left the aircraft industry (am a mech. engineer). Under the Bush administration changes have increased risks, not the reverse: crowding of airspace, letting carriers do their own inspections of aircraft, attacking the Flight Controllers union, understaffing in retaliation, keeping secret the news of the extremely serious problems at Quantus hidden from the US's public view ... On and on ...
Its entirely conceivable that their "ultimate plan" is to get out of the "business" of safety management, quality control, and flight management. I betcha they see computers and satellites as the pathway to that goal!
Its nothing short of criminal.
j. anderson, m.e., m.d.
This was not a simple 'change of background', folks! It was a totally inept 'youthful-izing' excercise that presented her persona as much more vibrant, youthful, and 'General Officer - like' !! It also was a lie about the technology the photographer used in making the shot! I commend AP in its 'zero tolerance' for this type of deceit. You might disagree with me and find the pic acceptable, but that is not the real issue at all: the issue is simply "can we trust what the DoD or even AP show us?" Without a strict policy such as AP's we could have a news media whose veracity is always to be suspect . For me, that would not be tolerable.
[/q]The Higgs field creates mass out of the quantum vacuum too, in the form of virtual Higgs bosons. So if the LHC confirms that the Higgs exists, it will mean all reality is virtual. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16095-its-confirmed-matter-is-merely-vacuum-fluctuations.html Good to know that my pain isnt real!
Wouldnt itsy bitsy teenie weenie black holes (like the BlackHoleGenerator in Europe, now being repaired, is about to demonstrate) do the same thing?? first ... 'apostrophe's began to disappear .. Later they noticed a missing toolbag ... then
a spider!
oh god! when will it e....
arachno-orbitalphobia ??
of the 11 replies i got, yours is the most interesting ;)))
the others were merely excercises in pedantism.
tnx!
right. tnx.
i still dont see the appropriateness of the 'sic' thing
Pray tell why the " [sic] " follows "credibility" in the article? ref: ".. Allchin wrote to Ballmer. 'What a mess. Now we have an upset partner, Microsoft destroyed credibility [sic], as well as my own credibility shot.' " Is it that you think its misspelled? (It isn't.)
Isnt a safety-factor of over 20 a bit much??
Interestingly, i've yet to hear anyone say that the extraordinarily longer-than-planned endurance of these machines really represents that they were 'over-designed' and that money therefore was wasted! If a 3 month mission is what they were after, then building the thing so it lasted 20 times as long is good for science, perhaps, except for the fact that the unnecessary quality and design features might represent expenses that could have been used for other scientific purposes that could provide us with much more-valuable data concerning problems much more in need of solution than merely to see how long the thing can last!
tell *that* to the guys who screwed up the programming on one of those intended-mars-lander missions! Remember?? it collided with martian surface because of an error in units ! Wish i could rememember the exact mission ...
Anyone??
tkjtkj
The power to cap is the power to destroy.
You must be joking, really! I did think this line of yours was meant to be sarcastic : "In any other case, the judge will surveillance must be shut down and the records sealed immediately. This law has been so effective that out of the hundreds of FISA taps exactly ZERO have been denied." Can you really be suggesting that the gov's record in this is 100% perfect?? that they never erred, never deceived the courts? never never never? in hundreds of cases?? ... especially in this present administration which has been falgrant in its lack of cooperation, even including purposefully frustrating court reviews!!!
Wake up.
haha
i recall clearly stating to the effect that yes, it was an inference. i also know that it'd be a rare gang that discussed illegalities in the presence of others of whom they were not totally confident , that they did not fully trust. And girlfriends in many gangs are *required* to experience sex with members. That is not an inference.
Anyone who is old enough to have followed news reports about lifestyles within some 'rogue, biker gangs' will understand how outrageous is this excerpt from the article: "The arrests cap a three-year undercover investigation in which US agents posed as gang members and their girlfriends to infiltrate the group,.." Females inducted into certain such groups are expected to provide sexual favors to others. The initiation rituals published in publicly-available reports describe the sexual demands made of females in the group. To imagine that female law enforcement agents would involve themselves with such behaviours as part of investigative work is, frankly, horrendous. Even police 'anti-hooker' details do not go so far as that! .. and with good reason. If the article is true, what has happened to our sense of 'right and wrong' if this behaviour of female investigators is condoned??
I cant recall any commercial ive ever seen that had one of the actors paying the other ...
or perhaps there's some 'higher level accounting
methodologies' that could be used to obfuscate the reality of it??
CPA's ...! Tell us !
It was 30 years ago, or so, that i saw pictures taken from an orbiting satellite that peered down to a golf course. The final enlarged image was that of the golf-ball. I shall never forget what it displayed: " Titleist " !! And i suspect, after 30 years and trillions of dollars, that the capabilities are improved, to put it mildly!!!!!!!
Today, 8/20/08, on docking my ORIG version iPhone, i was told i coujld upgrade to v. 2.0.2 so i did so.. I also tried to view the link on the 'update?' box that was described as letting me view the fixes (ie, the last of the several links in the 'Agreement' box). Naturally, at that site there was NO ref to any fix, even clicking the 'iphone' dropdown menu revealed nothing about it. BUT, interestingly, there was a 'how to transfer your original iphone config to a new G3 unit' that included wording including this: "If you wish to change your carrier (!!!), first ask your new carrier how to do it .. " (a rough
sort-of-a-quotation)
Does this mean Apple is preparing to let carriers other than ATT work with the iphone???????
you must be joking! To say that an asteroid having a diameter 3 times as long as a football field, and travelling at 18,000 miles per hour and colliding with earth would merely destroy an area the size of Manhattan?? Do you have data for such a misguided assertion?
True, yet the odds are enormously larger that the number of objects smaller than 300m is considerably greater than the number that can be detected. This, logically, makes it relatively pointless to search for 'the biggies' when the risk of a cataclysmic sterilizing event secondary to a smaller, less than 300m , object has to be considerably higher. but yes, as i commented, huge objects, even the size of earth itself, can theoretically have their orbits significantly changed, given enough time .. Didnt i say about 64,000 years was the time proposed to 'save the earth' from the heat effects of our expanding and dying Sun ?