I can see it now... Mom, Dad, are watching TV in the Den. Little Susie comes in, and the next set of commercials include a "My Little Pony" advert. In walks Junior, and up pops an ad for adult videos and Jergens.
Or Wifie is watching TV (with ads for feminine products). In walks Hubby, and the next commercial is for divorce lawyers. Screaming commences.
There's just so many ways for this camera concept to go badly...
Nope, 688 class subs are made of high yield-strength steel. It's not the metal of the hull that burns, it's all the insulation that's glued onto the inside of the hull.
There's plenty of flammable materials on a sub, most of which produces huge amounts of highly toxic fumes. Added to the danger is that in drydock periods, the hatches are fouled with hoses going to various systems. Many of these hoses are air hoses, pressurized to about 100psi. If the fire ruptures one of these hoses, there's a ready source of oxygen directly at the fire source.
Added to that problem is that there are areas on the submarine that no-one can access after the ship is constructed, due to installed piping and wiring blocking access. I remember on one sub, there was a beer bottle visible in the outboard frame leftover from new-con, but there was absolutely no way to get to it to remove it without crazy amounts of cutting. If a fire spreads to these inaccessible areas, you're screwed.
I have my Google Apps email set up this way, with wildcards. When I start getting spam, all I do is change my email address with the originating site, and set up a filter using the To: field. Send that spam straight to the trash folder.
I've been able to identify several breaches of companies email lists using this wildcarding setup, and it's always fun to call the company and let them know that their customer email list has been hacked... Usually it's the little mom and pop companies, but sometimes it's medium sized businesses.
Of course, sometimes it's my own fault... once I was silly enough to post on an eBay forum. The forum automatically attached my email (ebay@mydomain.com). Within a matter of minutes, I started getting huge amounts of spam for listiing software, and "Your ebay account has been blocked, please click this link andlogin to verify your account" type of crap. 6+ years later, I'm still getting spam to that account, but it automatically get captured by a filter and sent straight to the trash folder.
The one I haven't figured out is how to filter by characterset. For some reason, I get tons of russian spam to various random accounts at my domain, all of which Google catches and tosses into my spam folder. Since I don't speak russian, if I could just filter on some common russian words (watch, viagra, cialis, penis, manly, etc) I could keep my spam folder even less cluttered.
One of the comments on the Youtube video summs it up perfectly. That was the most *nominal* launch in history. Everything worked as designed. Beautiful! Congrats to the entire team.
I get probably 5 pieces of actual mail per month (bills, statements, etc). When I moved into my new house 6 months ago, I was getting about 8 bulk mailing pieces per day. I used every available opt-out method to avoid getting this junk mail delivered, and now I get maybe 2 or 3 pieces of junk mail per week. Overall, opting out has dramatically reduced the amount of bulk mail I receive. The important part is how easy it was to opt-out. I spent maybe 2 hours on various websites filling out basic forms. Now, when I get a spam mail, I try to opt-out from it online (google is my friend). Usually I can find a site or phone number to get my name removed from their mailing list.
If the Post Office business model depends on people being willing to accept bulk advertising as an unavoidable nuisance, then their business is in trouble. If opt-out laws get passed, then it'll really put a dent in their profits. I hate spam, and I don't care if it's on paper or electronic. If I can avoid it, I will.
I don't overestimate the abilities of the general public. I live in Arizona, and my non-technical sister is in Oregon. When she needed a wireless router, I configured one and sent it to her with simple instructions. Just to be safe, I taped over the reset button. lYesterday, she and her husband bought a Kindle, and couldn't get it to connect, even with the SSID and password on a paper taped to the top of the router. So her husband removed the tape and pressed and held the reset button. Which cleared all the router settings. They are shipping the router back to me in Arizona to reconfigure it, but it's a stark reminder that the average consumer is a consumer of technology without any understanding of how it works. And they can cause themselves a lot of problems by randomly pushing buttons.
For a car analogy, the 'average user' is able to fill the gas tank and drive it, but not able to change their own oil or troubleshoot a failing O2 sensor.
I just bought a new house in Phoenix Arizona, and the biggest improvements I've made are:
1. Insulating the metal garage door. I bought some 1 1/2 inch thick styrofoam board from Home Depot, cut it to fit the inside of the door, popped them in place, and sprayed expanding foam into the cracks. Now I'm not losing all the air conditioning to the outside. This means my electric bill is smaller, which means I have more money for other stuff!
2. If you live in an area with poor quality water, install a water softener and Reverse Osmosis (RO) unit to purify the water. Here in Arizona, the water is very hard (lots of calcium), and has a nasty taste. The water softener means that there's not as much soap scum in the showers and less scale buildup on the water fixtures and tubs and showers. This means less time spent scrubbing (yay!). The RO unit takes the nasty tapwater, and filters it. The filtered water is stored in a 3 gallon tank, and is dispensed at the kitchen sink and the front door of the fridge. The refrigerator ice cubes no longer have that awful flavor, and instead are pure and tasteless.
For me, these two improvements have been the biggest bang for the buck, because they directly affect other parts of my life. Your choices may be different, but think about what sorts of changes will make your life more pleasant for a long time to come. An iPad on the wall will look 'quaint' in 8 years, but a fresh glass of icewater will still taste sweet. I did the 120 inch screen and 1080p projector in the Man Cave, but it's not as big an improvement in my life as having clean water.
On your other comment about the "properly sized ceramic bullet:" 1. Bullets are made of soft materials (such as copper or lead). This material must be softer than the material of the barrel, so that the bullet material deforms as it enters the rifled portion of the barrel. This provides a seal around the perimeter of the bullet, and minimizes gasses leaking between the bullet and the barrel. The bullet deformation to match the rifling is what causes the bullet to rotate (imparting the spin, which stabilizes the bullet in flight). 2. Ceramic is a very hard, very brittle material. It does *not* deform. If you tried to force a ceramic bullet through a rifled barrel, you'd get broken shards out the muzzle. Ceramic is much harder than steel, so you'd destroy the barrel almost immediately.
Having said that, it's possible to use a ceramic bullet by using a sabot round. http://www.sabotreloadingpro.com/ The sabot acts as a buffer between the (undersized) bullet and the barrel, preventing bullet to barrel contact. Of course, using a sabot allows using pretty much anything as a 'bullet'.
Last month I flew thru LAX. Since I had a 4 hour layover before my flight to Hong Kong, I decided to decline the scan. The TSA herder made me repeat it a couple of times, and then loudly called out for a "male pat-down." There was a young lady behind me in line. She watched me waiting for my escort to the patdown area, and exclaimed that she didn't know opt-out was an option and that she wanted to opt-out too!
Oh, and the TSA guy who showed up to do my pat-down was very professional about it. At first he took his cue from the herder, and was sounding as if I were doing something suspicious. After chatting for a minute, he relaxed and just did the frisk and sent me on my way.
Sigh. Have you ever held a glock? What material do you suppose the slide (you know, that thingy on the top that goes back and forth each time it goes bang) is made of? That's right... Steel. Which is a metal. How about the barrel? Oh yeah, that's steel too. Recoil spring? I'll give you a hint... steel. Should I go on?
But you're half right... the frame is made of... polymer. A fancy name for plastic. So if you separated the slide from the frame, and took all the little movable metal parts out of the frame, then the frame probably wouldn't set off the metal detector (the little metal inserts molded into the frame are probably too small to set off the walk-thru metal detector). Summary: Glocks (and all other mainstream guns) have major parts made of metal. More metal than a belt buckle. If a beltbuckle sets of the metal detector, so will a gun. Even a glock.
I think some of the military jobs (which you would think would have decent sleep schedules) are absolutely crazy. My first underway on a submarine, I was port-and-starboard watches with another guy. That means I stood watch for 6 hours, then he stood watch for 6 hours, then I stood watch for 6 hours, etc. For a couple of months. Theoretically, you were sleeping during those 6 off hours, but in actuality you were doing drills, evolutions, training, field-day (cleaning), maintenance, studying for qualifications, etc. There were times when I'd be up for a day plus, running only on caffeine. Of course, when you did get off watch and had time to sleep, you were so wired that it was hard to wind down. I was a Nuclear Reactor Operator on submarines. Do you think that's a job where people should be working who've been kept awake working for >24 hours straight? It happens. All the time. Not during battle, or even during any conflict, but just doing a workup for an outside group to evaluate the submarine performance in peacetime. The next underway, I was on the more traditional submarine schedule of working 18 hour rotation. That's 6 hours on watch, followed by 6 hours of maintenance, and then 6 hours off, and then back on watch. But again, those 6 hours off about half the time coincided some scheduled department or shipwide event (evolutions/drills/field-day/etc). Occasionally, I'd end up missing two sleep periods in a row due to scheduling, so I'd be running a nuclear reactor after being up and working for 36 hours straight. I used to snicker when I'd hear about pilots getting mandatory time off for sleep before they could fly again. What a cushy job! Appropriate captcha: slacken
Just after Katrina, my employer sent a bunch of us volunteers down to Louisiana/Georgia/Texas with networking equipment, laptops, and VOIP phones (all donated to the Red Cross). We were embedded into the Red Cross volunteer system, and transported and set up banks of phones and laptops in the relief shelters.
People were able to call their relatives and send emails to let people know that they were alive and arrange to be reunited with separated family members. You can't imagine what it's like to see a mother who was separated from her kids when they were pulled off a roof by boats, when she finally finds out where they are and that they are OK.
Remember those voucher credit cards that were handed out to help people buy basic necessities? Intel, Cisco, and Avaya provided the infrastructure, equipment and volunteers to issue those cards.
One interesting side story: When we arrived in the Baton Rouge fairgrounds with our boxes of networking equipment, we found that there was already a trailer set up with network access for people to use. It turns out that a Good Samaritan had wandered to the fairgrounds to see if he could help, and noticed there wasn't any networking infrastructure. He called the tech support line for his ISP, and asked if the ISP could help out. The ISP tech support guy sent the request up his chain (in the middle of the night), and within a couple of hours the ISP had live networking available at the fairgrounds. The Good Samaritan brought some computers from home, and set up a table with computers available for use. When newscrews arrived later, they were able to just piggyback on the network connection. By the time we arrived, the network was running smoothly and with plenty of donated computers. Spontaneous networking!
Unfortunately, the food situation in Baton Rouge wasn't quite as smooth... the big chain restaurant that had received the order for dinner for several thousand people decided not to accept the Red Cross money, but didn't bother to let the Red Cross know. The Red Cross volunteers started pooling their credit cards and money to figure out how to pay for dinner for all the hungry people. Talk about caring people...
Red Cross Disaster Relief people are wonderful. If you want to be one, google for Red Cross Disaster Relief. When we were in Montgomery Alabama doing our networking, there were volunteers arriving by the busload. Most had only a backpack of personal possessions (soap, toothbrush, change of clothes, etc). These people weren't there for the money (it's volunteer labor), or the glory. It's hot sweaty work, dealing with stressed out displaced people, some of whom are very angry and frustrated. The volunteers were there to help out.
I'm glad I got the chance to help after Katrina, and I hope to be able to volunteer again in the future.
Thank You to Intel, Cisco, and Avaya for allowing us employees the opportunity to volunteer.
The second hardest part of doing the source pull was trying to read the silly little numbered beads on the cable.
The hardest part was unbolting and rebolting the freakin' coverplate over the sourcebox. Stupid stupid design. And of course the silly gasket material that was just glued to the back of the coverplate... and never stayed glued. I always wished I could meet the guy who designed that torture box, and make him do a few pulls.
Here's to never having to do another precritical checkoff!
Yes, the system worked as designed. The offended party (a person who is arguably a VIP) was treated as an average person, and obtained a clandestine audio recording of his treatment. This audio recording was egregious enough to prompt the ACLU to proceed.
Now, let's take my niece as an example. She's not a frequent flyer, isn't used to being in a position of power, isn't used to dealing with abusive uniformed persons, and wouldn't have a clue that the TSA wasn't allowed to treat her like an object.
The average person would have had no recourse. This type of abuse happens every day. There are websites for frequent flyers which are full of horror stories of travelers undergoing much worse.
The system worked in that a VIP was able to get resolution.
I, for one, will no longer read webpages served up by his companies if Google no longer can provide his material in search results.
I get almost all of my news from google news aggregation, and then click on links which strike my interest. If Google doesn't give me the link, then I'm probably not going there.
Sorry Rupert! Bad Mogul! [swat with newspaper, preferably one of his own]
Yes, and that Intel motherboard with the ATI chipset was an absolute disaster. Silly me, I bought one of those because it was very low cost. Well, the time I spent troubleshooting it was not worth the savings in dollars.
D101GGC? Something like that... Luckily, that was the end of ATI providing chipsets for Intel. Of course then ATI was bought out by AMD, which meant no more ATI chipsets.
Um, that's probably not a good idea, at least not if the movie follows the book too closely. The level of violence and sex in the bible would result in ratings of at least R, with portions being XXX. For examples, check out http://www.nobeliefs.com/DarkBible/DarkBibleContents.htm
As an end user of JMP, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank him for his ultra-cool program. There are times when you need to do something simple, such as graph X vs Y while color coding each point by Z. Try doing that in Excel, and experience frustration (it can be done with macros, but not elegantly). In JMP, such graphs are easily done using the COLOR BY function on the menu. So simple, yet so powerful.
JMP is my favorite graphing program, even more than being my favorite stats program.
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Man, and just yesterday I had mod points. Too funny.
There are too many links for this topic, so here's my quickie google search. Pick your article! https://www.google.com/search?q=tsa+liquid+drink+eyedropper
Best wishes on your upcoming therapy, I hope it works for you.
I wish I hadn't used up the last of my mod points a little while ago... I'd mod you up.
Or Wifie is watching TV (with ads for feminine products). In walks Hubby, and the next commercial is for divorce lawyers. Screaming commences.
There's just so many ways for this camera concept to go badly...
Added to that problem is that there are areas on the submarine that no-one can access after the ship is constructed, due to installed piping and wiring blocking access. I remember on one sub, there was a beer bottle visible in the outboard frame leftover from new-con, but there was absolutely no way to get to it to remove it without crazy amounts of cutting. If a fire spreads to these inaccessible areas, you're screwed.
Fighting a fire on a submarine sucks.
Of course, sometimes it's my own fault... once I was silly enough to post on an eBay forum. The forum automatically attached my email (ebay@mydomain.com). Within a matter of minutes, I started getting huge amounts of spam for listiing software, and "Your ebay account has been blocked, please click this link andlogin to verify your account" type of crap. 6+ years later, I'm still getting spam to that account, but it automatically get captured by a filter and sent straight to the trash folder.
The one I haven't figured out is how to filter by characterset. For some reason, I get tons of russian spam to various random accounts at my domain, all of which Google catches and tosses into my spam folder. Since I don't speak russian, if I could just filter on some common russian words (watch, viagra, cialis, penis, manly, etc) I could keep my spam folder even less cluttered.
One of the comments on the Youtube video summs it up perfectly. That was the most *nominal* launch in history. Everything worked as designed. Beautiful! Congrats to the entire team.
If the Post Office business model depends on people being willing to accept bulk advertising as an unavoidable nuisance, then their business is in trouble. If opt-out laws get passed, then it'll really put a dent in their profits. I hate spam, and I don't care if it's on paper or electronic. If I can avoid it, I will.
I don't overestimate the abilities of the general public. I live in Arizona, and my non-technical sister is in Oregon. When she needed a wireless router, I configured one and sent it to her with simple instructions. Just to be safe, I taped over the reset button. lYesterday, she and her husband bought a Kindle, and couldn't get it to connect, even with the SSID and password on a paper taped to the top of the router. So her husband removed the tape and pressed and held the reset button. Which cleared all the router settings. They are shipping the router back to me in Arizona to reconfigure it, but it's a stark reminder that the average consumer is a consumer of technology without any understanding of how it works. And they can cause themselves a lot of problems by randomly pushing buttons.
For a car analogy, the 'average user' is able to fill the gas tank and drive it, but not able to change their own oil or troubleshoot a failing O2 sensor.
I just bought a new house in Phoenix Arizona, and the biggest improvements I've made are:
1. Insulating the metal garage door. I bought some 1 1/2 inch thick styrofoam board from Home Depot, cut it to fit the inside of the door, popped them in place, and sprayed expanding foam into the cracks. Now I'm not losing all the air conditioning to the outside. This means my electric bill is smaller, which means I have more money for other stuff!
2. If you live in an area with poor quality water, install a water softener and Reverse Osmosis (RO) unit to purify the water. Here in Arizona, the water is very hard (lots of calcium), and has a nasty taste. The water softener means that there's not as much soap scum in the showers and less scale buildup on the water fixtures and tubs and showers. This means less time spent scrubbing (yay!). The RO unit takes the nasty tapwater, and filters it. The filtered water is stored in a 3 gallon tank, and is dispensed at the kitchen sink and the front door of the fridge. The refrigerator ice cubes no longer have that awful flavor, and instead are pure and tasteless.
For me, these two improvements have been the biggest bang for the buck, because they directly affect other parts of my life. Your choices may be different, but think about what sorts of changes will make your life more pleasant for a long time to come. An iPad on the wall will look 'quaint' in 8 years, but a fresh glass of icewater will still taste sweet. I did the 120 inch screen and 1080p projector in the Man Cave, but it's not as big an improvement in my life as having clean water.
On your other comment about the "properly sized ceramic bullet:"
1. Bullets are made of soft materials (such as copper or lead). This material must be softer than the material of the barrel, so that the bullet material deforms as it enters the rifled portion of the barrel. This provides a seal around the perimeter of the bullet, and minimizes gasses leaking between the bullet and the barrel. The bullet deformation to match the rifling is what causes the bullet to rotate (imparting the spin, which stabilizes the bullet in flight).
2. Ceramic is a very hard, very brittle material. It does *not* deform. If you tried to force a ceramic bullet through a rifled barrel, you'd get broken shards out the muzzle. Ceramic is much harder than steel, so you'd destroy the barrel almost immediately.
Having said that, it's possible to use a ceramic bullet by using a sabot round. http://www.sabotreloadingpro.com/ The sabot acts as a buffer between the (undersized) bullet and the barrel, preventing bullet to barrel contact. Of course, using a sabot allows using pretty much anything as a 'bullet'.
Last month I flew thru LAX. Since I had a 4 hour layover before my flight to Hong Kong, I decided to decline the scan. The TSA herder made me repeat it a couple of times, and then loudly called out for a "male pat-down." There was a young lady behind me in line. She watched me waiting for my escort to the patdown area, and exclaimed that she didn't know opt-out was an option and that she wanted to opt-out too!
Oh, and the TSA guy who showed up to do my pat-down was very professional about it. At first he took his cue from the herder, and was sounding as if I were doing something suspicious. After chatting for a minute, he relaxed and just did the frisk and sent me on my way.
Sigh. Have you ever held a glock? What material do you suppose the slide (you know, that thingy on the top that goes back and forth each time it goes bang) is made of? That's right... Steel. Which is a metal. How about the barrel? Oh yeah, that's steel too. Recoil spring? I'll give you a hint... steel. Should I go on?
But you're half right... the frame is made of... polymer. A fancy name for plastic. So if you separated the slide from the frame, and took all the little movable metal parts out of the frame, then the frame probably wouldn't set off the metal detector (the little metal inserts molded into the frame are probably too small to set off the walk-thru metal detector).
Summary: Glocks (and all other mainstream guns) have major parts made of metal. More metal than a belt buckle. If a beltbuckle sets of the metal detector, so will a gun. Even a glock.
http://xkcd.com/386/
I think some of the military jobs (which you would think would have decent sleep schedules) are absolutely crazy. My first underway on a submarine, I was port-and-starboard watches with another guy. That means I stood watch for 6 hours, then he stood watch for 6 hours, then I stood watch for 6 hours, etc. For a couple of months.
Theoretically, you were sleeping during those 6 off hours, but in actuality you were doing drills, evolutions, training, field-day (cleaning), maintenance, studying for qualifications, etc. There were times when I'd be up for a day plus, running only on caffeine. Of course, when you did get off watch and had time to sleep, you were so wired that it was hard to wind down.
I was a Nuclear Reactor Operator on submarines. Do you think that's a job where people should be working who've been kept awake working for >24 hours straight? It happens. All the time. Not during battle, or even during any conflict, but just doing a workup for an outside group to evaluate the submarine performance in peacetime.
The next underway, I was on the more traditional submarine schedule of working 18 hour rotation. That's 6 hours on watch, followed by 6 hours of maintenance, and then 6 hours off, and then back on watch. But again, those 6 hours off about half the time coincided some scheduled department or shipwide event (evolutions/drills/field-day/etc). Occasionally, I'd end up missing two sleep periods in a row due to scheduling, so I'd be running a nuclear reactor after being up and working for 36 hours straight.
I used to snicker when I'd hear about pilots getting mandatory time off for sleep before they could fly again. What a cushy job!
Appropriate captcha: slacken
Just after Katrina, my employer sent a bunch of us volunteers down to Louisiana/Georgia/Texas with networking equipment, laptops, and VOIP phones (all donated to the Red Cross). We were embedded into the Red Cross volunteer system, and transported and set up banks of phones and laptops in the relief shelters.
People were able to call their relatives and send emails to let people know that they were alive and arrange to be reunited with separated family members. You can't imagine what it's like to see a mother who was separated from her kids when they were pulled off a roof by boats, when she finally finds out where they are and that they are OK.
Remember those voucher credit cards that were handed out to help people buy basic necessities? Intel, Cisco, and Avaya provided the infrastructure, equipment and volunteers to issue those cards.
One interesting side story: When we arrived in the Baton Rouge fairgrounds with our boxes of networking equipment, we found that there was already a trailer set up with network access for people to use. It turns out that a Good Samaritan had wandered to the fairgrounds to see if he could help, and noticed there wasn't any networking infrastructure. He called the tech support line for his ISP, and asked if the ISP could help out. The ISP tech support guy sent the request up his chain (in the middle of the night), and within a couple of hours the ISP had live networking available at the fairgrounds. The Good Samaritan brought some computers from home, and set up a table with computers available for use. When newscrews arrived later, they were able to just piggyback on the network connection. By the time we arrived, the network was running smoothly and with plenty of donated computers. Spontaneous networking!
Unfortunately, the food situation in Baton Rouge wasn't quite as smooth... the big chain restaurant that had received the order for dinner for several thousand people decided not to accept the Red Cross money, but didn't bother to let the Red Cross know. The Red Cross volunteers started pooling their credit cards and money to figure out how to pay for dinner for all the hungry people. Talk about caring people...
Red Cross Disaster Relief people are wonderful. If you want to be one, google for Red Cross Disaster Relief. When we were in Montgomery Alabama doing our networking, there were volunteers arriving by the busload. Most had only a backpack of personal possessions (soap, toothbrush, change of clothes, etc). These people weren't there for the money (it's volunteer labor), or the glory. It's hot sweaty work, dealing with stressed out displaced people, some of whom are very angry and frustrated. The volunteers were there to help out.
I'm glad I got the chance to help after Katrina, and I hope to be able to volunteer again in the future.
Thank You to Intel, Cisco, and Avaya for allowing us employees the opportunity to volunteer.
The second hardest part of doing the source pull was trying to read the silly little numbered beads on the cable.
The hardest part was unbolting and rebolting the freakin' coverplate over the sourcebox. Stupid stupid design. And of course the silly gasket material that was just glued to the back of the coverplate... and never stayed glued. I always wished I could meet the guy who designed that torture box, and make him do a few pulls.
Here's to never having to do another precritical checkoff!
Yes, the system worked as designed. The offended party (a person who is arguably a VIP) was treated as an average person, and obtained a clandestine audio recording of his treatment. This audio recording was egregious enough to prompt the ACLU to proceed.
Now, let's take my niece as an example. She's not a frequent flyer, isn't used to being in a position of power, isn't used to dealing with abusive uniformed persons, and wouldn't have a clue that the TSA wasn't allowed to treat her like an object.
The average person would have had no recourse. This type of abuse happens every day. There are websites for frequent flyers which are full of horror stories of travelers undergoing much worse.
The system worked in that a VIP was able to get resolution.
I, for one, will no longer read webpages served up by his companies if Google no longer can provide his material in search results.
I get almost all of my news from google news aggregation, and then click on links which strike my interest. If Google doesn't give me the link, then I'm probably not going there.
Sorry Rupert! Bad Mogul! [swat with newspaper, preferably one of his own]
Based on a recent video on slashdot, the datacenter needs to be located other than in a flood plain.
Yes, and that Intel motherboard with the ATI chipset was an absolute disaster. Silly me, I bought one of those because it was very low cost. Well, the time I spent troubleshooting it was not worth the savings in dollars. D101GGC? Something like that... Luckily, that was the end of ATI providing chipsets for Intel. Of course then ATI was bought out by AMD, which meant no more ATI chipsets.
And I say, "Rock On!"
Um, that's probably not a good idea, at least not if the movie follows the book too closely. The level of violence and sex in the bible would result in ratings of at least R, with portions being XXX. For examples, check out http://www.nobeliefs.com/DarkBible/DarkBibleContents.htm
Geekboy on the left needs to stop backwashing into his iced tea. The level in his glass keeps jumping up and down randomly.
As an end user of JMP, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank him for his ultra-cool program. There are times when you need to do something simple, such as graph X vs Y while color coding each point by Z. Try doing that in Excel, and experience frustration (it can be done with macros, but not elegantly). In JMP, such graphs are easily done using the COLOR BY function on the menu. So simple, yet so powerful. JMP is my favorite graphing program, even more than being my favorite stats program.