Residents are unlikely to be baked as the frequencies in the two applications are entirely different.
Note the word "unlikely". If you were told that your TV was unlikely to fry your face if you sat in front of it, how close would you put one to yourself?
Note the distance between the place of testing this new technology ( Island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean ) and the creators of the technology. ( FRANCE )
Let's be blunt here. Wouldn't it be a lot cheaper to set up a town in France with this experimental thing-a-ma-bob first? Or does the possibility of a few cooked residence in France seem infinitely more difficult to keep from the media than in a village on an island in the Indian Ocean, which has no electricity controlled by France.
A few to many coicidences here...
I love this quote even more-
frequencies in the two applications are entirely different.
Sorry, but are there any engineers in the house that explain how different you can make a microwave frequency?
My laymans understanding is that the frequency has a great deal to do with the fact that it is a microwave in the first place. Visible light is a different frequency than x-rays for example...
Someone in the know fill me in on the obviously vague fudish smelling statements here...
no responsible studies that link microwave antennas to cancer.
So who now is this reputable and trustworthy source that says Microwave's don't cause cancer?
My uncle used to work at Litton testing microwave ovens for radiation leaks. He says the first thing to cook is your eyes. If your eyes get's cooked, who cares about cancer?
Microwaved blood will kill you. If your blood get's microwaved, just one less step of a transfusion, wouldn't you say?
Microwaves DO cause cancer - enjoy
http://www.laleva.cc/environment/microwave.html
One expert if you don't feel like the cut & paste.
BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF EXPOSURE
Exposure to microwave emissions also had an unpredictably negative effect upon the general biological welfare of humans. This
was not discovered until the Russians experimented with highly sophisticated equipment and discovered that a human did not even need to ingest the material substance of the microwaved food substances: that even exposure to the energy-field itself was sufficient to cause such adverse side effects that the use of any such microwave apparatus was forbidden in 1976 by Soviet state law.
The following are the enumerated effects:
1. A breakdown of the human "life-energy field" in those who were exposed to microwave ovens while in operation, with
side-effects to the human energy field of increasingly longer duration;
2. A degeneration of the cellular voltage parallels during the process of using the apparatus, especially in the blood and lymphatic areas;
3. A degeneration and destabilization of the external energy activated potentials of food utilization within the processes of human metabolism;
4. A degeneration and destabilization of internal cellular membrane potentials while transferring catabolic [metabolic breakdown] processes into the blood serum from the digestive process;
5. Degeneration and circuit breakdowns of electrical nerve impulses within the junction potentials of the cerebrum [the front
portion of the brain where thought and higher functions reside];
6. A degeneration and breakdown of nerve electrical circuits and loss of energy field symmetry in the neuroplexuses [nerve
centers] both in the front and the rear of the central and autonomic nervous systems;
7. Loss of balance and circuiting of the bioelectric strengths within the ascending reticular activating system [the system which
controls the function of consciousness];
8. A long term cumulative loss of vital energies within humans, animals and plants that were located within a 500-meter radius of the operational equipment;
9. Long lasting residual effects of magnetic "deposits" were located throughout the nervous system and lymphatic system;
10. A destabilization and interruption in the production of hormones and maintenance of hormonal balance in males and females;
11. Markedly higher levels of brainwave disturbance in the alpha, theta, and delta wave signal patterns of persons exposed to
microwave emission fields, and;
12. Because of this brainwave disturbance, negative psychological effects were noted, including loss of memory, loss of ability to concentrate, suppressed emotional threshold, deceleration of intellective processes, and interruptive sleep episodes in a statistically higher percentage of individuals subjected to continual range emissive field effects of microwave apparatus, either in cooking apparatus or in transmission stations.
unless you're anti-Intel because they have that agreement with microsoft.
*ahem* a slight reminder about a very interesting court appearance by the CEO (or somebody) from AMD on the behalf of MS... let me refresh your memory it ended something like this...
States Attorney: So what has motivated you to come forward with this information?
AMD Executive: That really nice rich man, Mr. Gates, told me to say it, and said he'd let me play ball in his sandbox if I did.
so, what were you saying about "agreements" with MS? Please fill me in, as I am a little out of the loop...
The theory of evolution's core of existence is based on the premis that it was accidental, otherwise you have to admit God exists in some form. Then you are not talking about evolution, but intelligent design.
The laws of chemistry likely had something to do with it. Either way it doesn't matter, evolution doesn't care how life got started; evolution merely takes over once it has.
What does evolution "care" about? How does a "theory" have feelings? Starting to sound a bit insane and ridiculous yet? These are even your own words... What's wrong with saying God made it? So maybe it did take him a long time to create things, what's wrong with saying it wasn't an accident?
Evolution doesn't work that way.
Really? How does evolution "work" then? I've just been told that it was mutations surviving, but that hardly accounts for the first instance of life, cause a mutation of chemicals no matter how elaborate will never create life in any experiment...
Evolution works by saving up what works for the next generation.
Now wait a second, now you are saying there is some kind of logic involved with evolution? You are saying that the _theory_ of evolution (theory meaning _unproven_ )has some kind of methodology which then implies intelligence, which then implies a being, therefore a creator...
It's funny how the story of evolution has changed so much since it's "creation" when the ubsurdity of it is pointed out... Darwin did not even know how a basic cell funtioned, much less DNA, if he had, he most likely would not have even dreamed up his "theory"...
Will you allow my text generator to save something that looks slightly like a hello world program and use that for the next round?
Evolution by it's very nature had no ability to "decide" anything, so no, that would not be allowed. See how stupid this is? It would never happen...
As far as your link goes to some general evolution site, just put in some specific links to real data, not more theory from other people...
There are only 9, so it should be very easy to replicate this code in a manner that it is usable.
Last rule on this one, you can't copy and paste the code out of the text file or program, cause then the creator is taking a hand in the creation of the code, which is against the _theory_ of evolution.
No, if statements to help the code generator, as this would intelligent design and not evolution.
Run the code as long as you want and run as fast as you want...
Proof of Evotion Test 2
Spit out random letters from the alpha bet, spell ONE comprehensible sentence.
Proof of Evotion Test 3
HTML test. Spit out text with extra brackets <> and make ONE properly formatted html page. With or without content.
Proof of Evotion Test 4
Get any application, script, program, that does not currently replicate itself, to do so by injecting random code into it...
As the theory of evolution has assumed that self replication is such a normal and basic function of one celled animals, then we should be able to replicate that process with random code very easily, as since our scripts and apps are very simple comparatively speaking, this task should not take billions of years, especially since there is a creator to the random code...
Final rules
If you get one of these to prove to work, try and get your computer to randomly execute the code, without
Saving it as an executable/readable file (then the creator would be taking a hand in things and mucking with computer evolution)
Opening or inserting the text into any application to read or digest the material.
Replicate the material in any way (as even the most basic life forms could replicate themselves, so think how simple that one thing is... so this happening randomly should be a snap)
Run these as fast as you want for as long as you want, if you ever get a result that even comes close, post it on slashdot, as it will certainly be news worthy...
Note: These are very specific tests with tons of limits to make this a very simplified test, so these should be able to be accomplished in a very short time period with the speed of modern computers, and should be able to give lots of solid support for the theory of evolution.
I'm not a creationist, but I fully support their right to believe whatever they want to believe, as long as they don't shove it down my throat.
Last I heard it's the other way around. It seems if you believe in creation you are attacked in this country, hardly the other way around...
Every evidence (every one) supporting evolution has been debunked time and time again.
The supposed "cave man" tooth found in Kanasas: a pig tooth.
The supposed "baby cave man" found in Alaska: A pigmy monkey. (all bones found spread over 2 acres of area, not all together like reported, a common deceptive techique in evolution propaganda.)
The drawings of the fetuses of fish, chicken and human looking similar at a certain stage: All forgeries and hallucinations of a scientist that really wanted there to be evidence of evolution when there just isn't any..
Just ask a mathmetician what the chances are of life happening by accident. I think the number is 10 to the 23rd power, and from a mathimatical standpoint (not crocery here, but true math and science) that anything past 10 to the 6th, is impossible, and will never ever happen...
Also, try and show how DNA, millions of chemical strands, a literal set of computer style machine code that describes how to make a human, is accidental.
PROOF OF EVOLUTION TEST
Take a random text generator, make one in whatever language you want. And have it spit out random text solid for an entire month.
If you can get it to even make a "hello world" in ANY programming language under the sun, I will hand you 10 dollars.
The problem is that even if one got in there some where, it would still be surrounded by garbage and would never work...
So, now mondern computers could no way ever even in a million years accidentally make the most basic of computer code examples, how do you explain evolution as even a remotely sane reason for life?
If this goes national think how much fatter people will have to get to keep up with the fuel requirements of the entire nation? Billions of gallons of used, vile and totally repugnant left over french fry goo has to come from some where...
also, "hey, we must be close to a restaurant, I smell food!" will become, "I can't tell if we are close to a restaruant, cause it everything smells like food!"
"It can cut through everything I threw at it, it was beautiful. I watched it all day long, cutting random shapes from a mandelbrot generator I coded in Pascal... what an experience..."
Social Security is a pawn for collections. All the money from SS was originally secured and not spent. The democrats in congres in a Christams evening or New Years (can't recall which) some 30 years ago voted that the SS money should be transfered to the general fund, and has since been spent as fast as it comes in...
As far as the EPA goes, there is no law against keeping and maintaining a farm of animals. That is exactly what a friend of mine had. The problem was that animal rights extremeists freaked out and called the EPA about how he was "mis-treating" his animals.
At the time everything he was doing was perfectly legal. He ran the farm, scientists and doctors used samples of the blood from the animals to make a serum that allowed human beings to be frozen indefinitely. (the military has synthetic stuff, but only works for a short time)
The scientific and health ramifications for such a product could have been limitless. Many, many diseases could be cured by freezing the body, as this serum allowed the blood to continue flowing like anti-freeze. Some hibernating animals have this kind of funtionality in their own systems.
The EPA came in and without a court hearing of any kind, shut down their business... This was in the 70's btw...
And since there was no public court hearing (who would stand by and let that happen with the kind of research they were doing?) there is no public record of it happening...
After reading this in this time period, I jumped back to 2257, and looked up a paper in 2004, he goes to jail after a very short (but entertaining) court hearing... where the judge was reported to have asked the defendant...
"So, if you are from the future, who is the president?" The defendant replied, "Ronald Reagan!" To which the Judge replied "Ha! The actor?"
You have a valid point about keeping on top of getting a rebate, but ask yourself this-
"How much money is my time worth to do all this stuff to get the rebate?"
Are any of these reabates actually worth $100 even? For a $100 rebate I may spend some time, but what get's me here is that all I have to do is a work a couple more hours at my real job, get $100 or more, and go buy the something without a care of a rebate...
If your rebate is less than $50, I would have to say you end up wasting your life's precious time worrying about money that may or may not come, when you could have simply bought the cheaper product, waited for a price dip (happens frequently in computer world), buy same brand but slower/older model (I do this with CPU's, HD's, RAM, etc... and save TONS) and then a rebate is practically worthless...
I personally have never recieved one rebate check out of perhaps a dozen submissions for them... this seems to jive with most people here, and the effort it seems to take to really get a rebate, really may not be worthwhile...
The ONLY spam (and I mean only) I get is via my email account in WHOIS... I have a default mail drop, so some times it get's sent to some garbage name at my url... and of course I get it...:P
But you can't remove your email address from your registrar cause then they can't contact you, the best you can do is change the email address periodically and block all previous addresses as spam, but then what if you get a legitimate email?
Any answers for clearing your email account of garbage spammers when you can't (or don't want to) change your registrar contact email address?
ha, I got an offer for a credit card with a limit of $7 billion the other day, I could of bought Universal Music... I just thought it was a poor choice... I'm going for the real deal."
The EPA is just as much a gestapo as any other government organization. I personally know man that had his business completely shut down with no court's or rights allowed to him by the EPA.
Now, I am not sure how the EPA plays into global warming, but from you text here -
...the US Govt's own sceintists confirmed that global warming exists and is caused by a boatload of human activites...
It is a well known fact that volcanoes, forest fires and natural elements on the planet put out many thousands of tons more pollution into the atmosphere than all the human pollution ever has or ever can come close too.
The sky was red in Minnesota from forest fires in Montana a few years back, sorry, no city pollution comes close to that.
Another rarely noted pollution cause is the fires started by Iraq in the first Gulf War in the early 90's. I don't have the statistics anymore, but I'd safely bet the ammount of oil/pollution put into the air in that little bit of time was more pollution the US has put out in 20 years from it's own industry and cars... correct me if I am wrong, but I've seen data, if there's data showing otherwise, I'd like to see it.
So based on this theory, Iraq needs to sign the Kyoto treaty more than the US does... especially if they keep up their poor track record.
Perhaps even better than just removing the low/no activity projects, just put them in a special directory called "inactive projects" that could be searched out by the curious or whoever... Removing them completely may be deterant to using sourceforge...
Years ago (4) I was impressed when my neighbor got his HP printer picked up at his house, fixed by HP and sent back to his door step.
HP is cool! I said.
I buy a deskjet. 842c! I run out of ink in a week with my wimpy half cartridge that came with it.
HP stinks.
I refill all my colors and black appropriately (therfore spending as much as the printer cost) and I buy some nice HP photo paper, and the prints are brilliant!
HP rocks!
I find out you can't refill the latest ink cartridges.
HP stinks.
I find out I have an old printer and I can refill my cartridges!
I love "metric time" as much as the next guy, but I wouldn't trust any review that equates 47 seconds with 0.47 minutes.
It actually reads 3 min 47 seconds on the bar, but the hash marks show it as 3.78 min, which is entirely accurate. There is nothing wrong with this graph.
Has any of the wrench geeks here actually read these articles?
My automotive mentor couldn't even read, but he was able to double the gas mileagle of a 4 barrel v8 with a couple of gaskets and a screen...
I have produced a device that boils the gasoline before entering a modified carborator on a VW (dangerous, stupid, yes...I won't do it again) and I was able to get it to run on fumes, while normally with an unmodified carborator just stepping on the accelerator would literally squirt a thick stream of gas down the intake! (keep in mind this is even on a vw beetle engine...)
Any basic mechanic knows that if you add oxygen to your system you will improve performance drastically. And the internal combustion engine is widely known as an incredibly inefficient system. A steam powered engine that is hermetically sealed and uses modern technology will far out perform any modern internal combustion engine and also burn feul much better.
A steam engine can burn it's fuel and atmospheric preasures therefore get a much cleaner and more effient combustion than is possible under preasure. Also you could have a car that could run on 10 different types of feul all at once, including kerosene(which I will note is used in the designs of a mars lander vehicle because of the power/weight ratio of the feul), gasoline, hydrogen, etc...
Of course if you are really looking to cut your gas costs, get rid of your need for gasoline altogether with a pegasus unit. In world war II when all the feul was being used for war a device was made that coverted peatmoss, wood chips or pressed sawdust pellets into a burnable gas for the internal combustion engine. Off the top of my head the ratio was 50% normal air and 50% gas from the pegasus unit.
The pegasus unit was basically a large furnace in a trash can lookiing thing that you mounted on the back of your car or truck, the hard fuel would be lit on fire at the base and as it burned up the gas was sent through a hose directly to the carberator. Thousands and thousands of vehicles (I've even seen photos of large trucks with these units) were setup with pegasus units.
Modern steam engines would awesome, the got an engine in the 70s to heat up in 7 seconds in 20 below zero temperatures, as that was one problem with steam engines in the past. They are super quite and a _ton_ of torque... etc...
All this electric garbage makes me sick, who cares about feul cells? They are for elitist pig corporations bent on making a technology that the normal person can't provide for themselves. In the 50s congress sought after an alternative to the internal combustion engine, steam power was the best option presented by far, but lobbying from 'Detroit' screwed it over...
In regards to whether or not adding hydrogen to an internal combustion engine would help? Of course it would, you might as well tap some of the tons of wasted energy of an internal combustion engine, the alternator is pumping out the amps, why not use them?
Obviously you can't run a vehicle entirely this way without gasoline, but as an additive it will vastly improve the combustion you do get, but of course to really see better performance you would have to modify your carborator or feul injection system to lower the fuel output, otherwise you will more likely only see just more power...
About 10 years ago Denver modified some of their public buses to run on hydrogen (internal combustion engines). The only reason it seems that feul cells are so hot is because of global/local preassure to lower emmissions and also someone has to make Hydrogen for you, guess who that will be... here's a few hints , Exxon, Shell, BP, etc... yup, they will burn oil to make hydrogen so you happy people can drive hydrogen feul cell cars... just dumb.
Where do you think the power is going to come from to make hydrogen? You have Nuclear, coal and hydro-electric... If we went with steam powered cars, if you were clever, you could use garbage, wood, recycled newspapers, peatmoss, hydroge
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Note the word "unlikely". If you were told that your TV was unlikely to fry your face if you sat in front of it, how close would you put one to yourself?
Note the distance between the place of testing this new technology ( Island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean ) and the creators of the technology. ( FRANCE )
Let's be blunt here. Wouldn't it be a lot cheaper to set up a town in France with this experimental thing-a-ma-bob first? Or does the possibility of a few cooked residence in France seem infinitely more difficult to keep from the media than in a village on an island in the Indian Ocean, which has no electricity controlled by France.
A few to many coicidences here...
I love this quote even more- frequencies in the two applications are entirely different.
Sorry, but are there any engineers in the house that explain how different you can make a microwave frequency?
My laymans understanding is that the frequency has a great deal to do with the fact that it is a microwave in the first place. Visible light is a different frequency than x-rays for example...
Someone in the know fill me in on the obviously vague fudish smelling statements here...
So who now is this reputable and trustworthy source that says Microwave's don't cause cancer?
My uncle used to work at Litton testing microwave ovens for radiation leaks. He says the first thing to cook is your eyes. If your eyes get's cooked, who cares about cancer?
Microwaved blood will kill you. If your blood get's microwaved, just one less step of a transfusion, wouldn't you say?
Microwaves DO cause cancer - enjoy
http://www.laleva.cc/environment/microwave.html
One expert if you don't feel like the cut & paste.
BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF EXPOSURE
Exposure to microwave emissions also had an unpredictably negative effect upon the general biological welfare of humans. This was not discovered until the Russians experimented with highly sophisticated equipment and discovered that a human did not even need to ingest the material substance of the microwaved food substances: that even exposure to the energy-field itself was sufficient to cause such adverse side effects that the use of any such microwave apparatus was forbidden in 1976 by Soviet state law.
The following are the enumerated effects:
1. A breakdown of the human "life-energy field" in those who were exposed to microwave ovens while in operation, with side-effects to the human energy field of increasingly longer duration;
2. A degeneration of the cellular voltage parallels during the process of using the apparatus, especially in the blood and lymphatic areas;
3. A degeneration and destabilization of the external energy activated potentials of food utilization within the processes of human metabolism;
4. A degeneration and destabilization of internal cellular membrane potentials while transferring catabolic [metabolic breakdown] processes into the blood serum from the digestive process;
5. Degeneration and circuit breakdowns of electrical nerve impulses within the junction potentials of the cerebrum [the front portion of the brain where thought and higher functions reside];
6. A degeneration and breakdown of nerve electrical circuits and loss of energy field symmetry in the neuroplexuses [nerve centers] both in the front and the rear of the central and autonomic nervous systems;
7. Loss of balance and circuiting of the bioelectric strengths within the ascending reticular activating system [the system which controls the function of consciousness];
8. A long term cumulative loss of vital energies within humans, animals and plants that were located within a 500-meter radius of the operational equipment;
9. Long lasting residual effects of magnetic "deposits" were located throughout the nervous system and lymphatic system;
10. A destabilization and interruption in the production of hormones and maintenance of hormonal balance in males and females;
11. Markedly higher levels of brainwave disturbance in the alpha, theta, and delta wave signal patterns of persons exposed to microwave emission fields, and;
12. Because of this brainwave disturbance, negative psychological effects were noted, including loss of memory, loss of ability to concentrate, suppressed emotional threshold, deceleration of intellective processes, and interruptive sleep episodes in a statistically higher percentage of individuals subjected to continual range emissive field effects of microwave apparatus, either in cooking apparatus or in transmission stations.
*ahem* a slight reminder about a very interesting court appearance by the CEO (or somebody) from AMD on the behalf of MS... let me refresh your memory it ended something like this...
States Attorney: So what has motivated you to come forward with this information?
AMD Executive: That really nice rich man, Mr. Gates, told me to say it, and said he'd let me play ball in his sandbox if I did.
so, what were you saying about "agreements" with MS? Please fill me in, as I am a little out of the loop...
The theory of evolution's core of existence is based on the premis that it was accidental, otherwise you have to admit God exists in some form. Then you are not talking about evolution, but intelligent design.
The laws of chemistry likely had something to do with it. Either way it doesn't matter, evolution doesn't care how life got started; evolution merely takes over once it has.
What does evolution "care" about? How does a "theory" have feelings? Starting to sound a bit insane and ridiculous yet? These are even your own words... What's wrong with saying God made it? So maybe it did take him a long time to create things, what's wrong with saying it wasn't an accident?
Evolution doesn't work that way.
Really? How does evolution "work" then? I've just been told that it was mutations surviving, but that hardly accounts for the first instance of life, cause a mutation of chemicals no matter how elaborate will never create life in any experiment...
Evolution works by saving up what works for the next generation.
Now wait a second, now you are saying there is some kind of logic involved with evolution? You are saying that the _theory_ of evolution (theory meaning _unproven_ )has some kind of methodology which then implies intelligence, which then implies a being, therefore a creator...
It's funny how the story of evolution has changed so much since it's "creation" when the ubsurdity of it is pointed out... Darwin did not even know how a basic cell funtioned, much less DNA, if he had, he most likely would not have even dreamed up his "theory"...
Will you allow my text generator to save something that looks slightly like a hello world program and use that for the next round?
Evolution by it's very nature had no ability to "decide" anything, so no, that would not be allowed. See how stupid this is? It would never happen...
As far as your link goes to some general evolution site, just put in some specific links to real data, not more theory from other people...
Philosophy prooves nothing, hard facts do.
Proof of Evotion Test 1
The easiest of all. Take all the text from this script.
----------
function sayHello(){
echo hello;
}
sayHello();
-------
Proof of Evotion Test 2
Proof of Evotion Test 3
Proof of Evotion Test 4
Final rules
If you get one of these to prove to work, try and get your computer to randomly execute the code, without
Note: These are very specific tests with tons of limits to make this a very simplified test, so these should be able to be accomplished in a very short time period with the speed of modern computers, and should be able to give lots of solid support for the theory of evolution.
Last I heard it's the other way around. It seems if you believe in creation you are attacked in this country, hardly the other way around...
Every evidence (every one) supporting evolution has been debunked time and time again.
The supposed "cave man" tooth found in Kanasas: a pig tooth.
The supposed "baby cave man" found in Alaska: A pigmy monkey. (all bones found spread over 2 acres of area, not all together like reported, a common deceptive techique in evolution propaganda.)
The drawings of the fetuses of fish, chicken and human looking similar at a certain stage: All forgeries and hallucinations of a scientist that really wanted there to be evidence of evolution when there just isn't any..
Just ask a mathmetician what the chances are of life happening by accident. I think the number is 10 to the 23rd power, and from a mathimatical standpoint (not crocery here, but true math and science) that anything past 10 to the 6th, is impossible, and will never ever happen...
Also, try and show how DNA, millions of chemical strands, a literal set of computer style machine code that describes how to make a human, is accidental.
PROOF OF EVOLUTION TEST
Take a random text generator, make one in whatever language you want. And have it spit out random text solid for an entire month.
If you can get it to even make a "hello world" in ANY programming language under the sun, I will hand you 10 dollars.
The problem is that even if one got in there some where, it would still be surrounded by garbage and would never work...
So, now mondern computers could no way ever even in a million years accidentally make the most basic of computer code examples, how do you explain evolution as even a remotely sane reason for life?
-v
Well, they did argue once... (true story, but no resource to back it up, atm)
Senator: So you say the earth is standing on a turtle?
Turtle Lady: Yes
Senator: Then what is the turtle standing on?
Turtle Lady: Another turtle.
Senator: Ok, then what is that turtle standing on?
Turtle Lady: (pauses) Another turtle.
Senator: Then what is that turtle standing on?
Turtle Lady: (a bit flustered) Another turtle!
Senator: Pray tell, madam, and what is that turtle standing on?
Turtle Lady: (completely irate) IT'S JUST TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN!!
If this goes national think how much fatter people will have to get to keep up with the fuel requirements of the entire nation? Billions of gallons of used, vile and totally repugnant left over french fry goo has to come from some where...
also, "hey, we must be close to a restaurant, I smell food!" will become, "I can't tell if we are close to a restaruant, cause it everything smells like food!"
Reminds me of an old TV commericial...
"It can cut through everything I threw at it, it was beautiful. I watched it all day long, cutting random shapes from a mandelbrot generator I coded in Pascal... what an experience..."
"So, where is your laser cutting printer?"
*sob* "I bought aluminum siding!" *sob*
Social Security is a pawn for collections. All the money from SS was originally secured and not spent. The democrats in congres in a Christams evening or New Years (can't recall which) some 30 years ago voted that the SS money should be transfered to the general fund, and has since been spent as fast as it comes in...
As far as the EPA goes, there is no law against keeping and maintaining a farm of animals. That is exactly what a friend of mine had. The problem was that animal rights extremeists freaked out and called the EPA about how he was "mis-treating" his animals.
At the time everything he was doing was perfectly legal. He ran the farm, scientists and doctors used samples of the blood from the animals to make a serum that allowed human beings to be frozen indefinitely. (the military has synthetic stuff, but only works for a short time)
The scientific and health ramifications for such a product could have been limitless. Many, many diseases could be cured by freezing the body, as this serum allowed the blood to continue flowing like anti-freeze. Some hibernating animals have this kind of funtionality in their own systems.
The EPA came in and without a court hearing of any kind, shut down their business... This was in the 70's btw...
And since there was no public court hearing (who would stand by and let that happen with the kind of research they were doing?) there is no public record of it happening...
-v
After reading this in this time period, I jumped back to 2257, and looked up a paper in 2004, he goes to jail after a very short (but entertaining) court hearing... where the judge was reported to have asked the defendant...
"So, if you are from the future, who is the president?"
The defendant replied, "Ronald Reagan!"
To which the Judge replied "Ha! The actor?"
You have a valid point about keeping on top of getting a rebate, but ask yourself this-
"How much money is my time worth to do all this stuff to get the rebate?"
Are any of these reabates actually worth $100 even? For a $100 rebate I may spend some time, but what get's me here is that all I have to do is a work a couple more hours at my real job, get $100 or more, and go buy the something without a care of a rebate...
If your rebate is less than $50, I would have to say you end up wasting your life's precious time worrying about money that may or may not come, when you could have simply bought the cheaper product, waited for a price dip (happens frequently in computer world), buy same brand but slower/older model (I do this with CPU's, HD's, RAM, etc... and save TONS) and then a rebate is practically worthless...
I personally have never recieved one rebate check out of perhaps a dozen submissions for them... this seems to jive with most people here, and the effort it seems to take to really get a rebate, really may not be worthwhile...
-v
Thanks, that's an interesting idea, :) Of course sounds like a lot of work, but hey, if it reduces the spam then I can't complain. :)
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The ONLY spam (and I mean only) I get is via my email account in WHOIS... I have a default mail drop, so some times it get's sent to some garbage name at my url... and of course I get it... :P
But you can't remove your email address from your registrar cause then they can't contact you, the best you can do is change the email address periodically and block all previous addresses as spam, but then what if you get a legitimate email?
Any answers for clearing your email account of garbage spammers when you can't (or don't want to) change your registrar contact email address?
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ha, I got an offer for a credit card with a limit of $7 billion the other day, I could of bought Universal Music... I just thought it was a poor choice... I'm going for the real deal."
Really, how many post on slashdot are done with a CE device?
*whew*, for a second there I thought the warez sites were in danger.
Now, I am not sure how the EPA plays into global warming, but from you text here -
It is a well known fact that volcanoes, forest fires and natural elements on the planet put out many thousands of tons more pollution into the atmosphere than all the human pollution ever has or ever can come close too.
The sky was red in Minnesota from forest fires in Montana a few years back, sorry, no city pollution comes close to that.
Another rarely noted pollution cause is the fires started by Iraq in the first Gulf War in the early 90's. I don't have the statistics anymore, but I'd safely bet the ammount of oil/pollution put into the air in that little bit of time was more pollution the US has put out in 20 years from it's own industry and cars... correct me if I am wrong, but I've seen data, if there's data showing otherwise, I'd like to see it.
So based on this theory, Iraq needs to sign the Kyoto treaty more than the US does... especially if they keep up their poor track record.
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Perhaps even better than just removing the low/no activity projects, just put them in a special directory called "inactive projects" that could be searched out by the curious or whoever... Removing them completely may be deterant to using sourceforge...
Years ago (4) I was impressed when my neighbor got his HP printer picked up at his house, fixed by HP and sent back to his door step.
HP is cool! I said.
I buy a deskjet. 842c! I run out of ink in a week with my wimpy half cartridge that came with it.
HP stinks.
I refill all my colors and black appropriately (therfore spending as much as the printer cost) and I buy some nice HP photo paper, and the prints are brilliant!
HP rocks!
I find out you can't refill the latest ink cartridges.
HP stinks.
I find out I have an old printer and I can refill my cartridges!
HP rocks!
54 sec/ 60 sec = .9 minutes... This graph is entirely correct.
I love "metric time" as much as the next guy, but I wouldn't trust any review that equates 47 seconds with 0.47 minutes.
It actually reads 3 min 47 seconds on the bar, but the hash marks show it as 3.78 min, which is entirely accurate. There is nothing wrong with this graph.
no worries, it's actually 49% 2k/xp vs %44 (98,95,nt) today. :)
:)
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Has any of the wrench geeks here actually read these articles?
My automotive mentor couldn't even read, but he was able to double the gas mileagle of a 4 barrel v8 with a couple of gaskets and a screen...
I have produced a device that boils the gasoline before entering a modified carborator on a VW (dangerous, stupid, yes...I won't do it again) and I was able to get it to run on fumes, while normally with an unmodified carborator just stepping on the accelerator would literally squirt a thick stream of gas down the intake! (keep in mind this is even on a vw beetle engine...)
Any basic mechanic knows that if you add oxygen to your system you will improve performance drastically. And the internal combustion engine is widely known as an incredibly inefficient system. A steam powered engine that is hermetically sealed and uses modern technology will far out perform any modern internal combustion engine and also burn feul much better.
A steam engine can burn it's fuel and atmospheric preasures therefore get a much cleaner and more effient combustion than is possible under preasure. Also you could have a car that could run on 10 different types of feul all at once, including kerosene(which I will note is used in the designs of a mars lander vehicle because of the power/weight ratio of the feul), gasoline, hydrogen, etc...
Of course if you are really looking to cut your gas costs, get rid of your need for gasoline altogether with a pegasus unit. In world war II when all the feul was being used for war a device was made that coverted peatmoss, wood chips or pressed sawdust pellets into a burnable gas for the internal combustion engine. Off the top of my head the ratio was 50% normal air and 50% gas from the pegasus unit.
The pegasus unit was basically a large furnace in a trash can lookiing thing that you mounted on the back of your car or truck, the hard fuel would be lit on fire at the base and as it burned up the gas was sent through a hose directly to the carberator. Thousands and thousands of vehicles (I've even seen photos of large trucks with these units) were setup with pegasus units.
Modern steam engines would awesome, the got an engine in the 70s to heat up in 7 seconds in 20 below zero temperatures, as that was one problem with steam engines in the past. They are super quite and a _ton_ of torque... etc...
All this electric garbage makes me sick, who cares about feul cells? They are for elitist pig corporations bent on making a technology that the normal person can't provide for themselves. In the 50s congress sought after an alternative to the internal combustion engine, steam power was the best option presented by far, but lobbying from 'Detroit' screwed it over...
In regards to whether or not adding hydrogen to an internal combustion engine would help? Of course it would, you might as well tap some of the tons of wasted energy of an internal combustion engine, the alternator is pumping out the amps, why not use them?
Obviously you can't run a vehicle entirely this way without gasoline, but as an additive it will vastly improve the combustion you do get, but of course to really see better performance you would have to modify your carborator or feul injection system to lower the fuel output, otherwise you will more likely only see just more power...
About 10 years ago Denver modified some of their public buses to run on hydrogen (internal combustion engines). The only reason it seems that feul cells are so hot is because of global/local preassure to lower emmissions and also someone has to make Hydrogen for you, guess who that will be... here's a few hints , Exxon, Shell, BP, etc... yup, they will burn oil to make hydrogen so you happy people can drive hydrogen feul cell cars... just dumb.
Where do you think the power is going to come from to make hydrogen? You have Nuclear, coal and hydro-electric... If we went with steam powered cars, if you were clever, you could use garbage, wood, recycled newspapers, peatmoss, hydroge