Oh, I know I have nough, white, yellow, red, grey, black, blue, that's a lego rubicks cube waiting to happen!
And this would be more entertaining then just trying to build riduiculasly tall freestanding towers (my records have been limited by ceiling height) or ridiculasly long suspention bridges (using legos as cables and all) My record on that one was a 9 foot span that held a couple of pounds!
Of course it would not be as entertaining as building the lego airplanes as smashing them into my bedroom walls to se where all of the passengers ended up in my room!
I live right on the shore od lake Superior, and although only 1300 feet deep, there is strange stuff down there, and there are other places like Lake Tanganika, and Lake Baikal, that are incredibly deep, freshwater, and largely unexplored. Lake Tanganika may actually be an excellent research location considering that Africa happens to be ripping in half at that point.
How many people vote fo keeping Alvin alive as a more mobile research vessel, to research places other than the oceans, but some of the more confined bodies of water.
I have no problem spending money on computer hardware, but I balk at spending anything on software. More than half of the time it does not work the way would like so I get rid of it, and for that reason alone I refuse to pay for it. On the flipside of that arguement though, when I find something that I really do like I will buy it, even though I have a cracked copy.
If the software industry wants to put an end to piracy, maybe they could try putting out software that doesn't suck rocks once in a while. Although I know this would be tough for M$ to stomach, there are a lot of companies hat are coiming relatively close and just need to push quality to the last step to be respected and trusted.
It's really easy, all we have to do is Kill all the People! Well, Kill all of the people and replace them with trees, and other vegetation. The reason we are in the pickle that we are in is we are over running the planet. So my suggestion is to run right now to the nearest ammo shop, and buy up the most high powered assualt rifle you can find, with plenty of ammo, of course. Find a high spot, and then kill everyone in sight, finishing off with yourself of course, because any job worth doing is worth doing all of the way!
And if you can't bring yourself to kill others, or yourselves, then simply go to a nice large open area, near a high spot, and mill around for a while.
In the meantime I will continue my life up in teh woods, avoiding the usage of oil and other evils, being and enviromentally friendly as I can!
P.S. When I moved in I sent the Heating Oil usage in this house from 100 gallons a month to 10 gallons a months, through the burning of dead timber from the woods that was converting itself back to carbon dioxide anyway.
The more groups that we have looking for creative solutions for tasks, the more original, creative, and reveloutionary the solutions are going to become. If we are ever going to learn to exist outside of the limits of our own planet, and travel arcoss the massive distance between the stars we will first have to get more then just 4 bloated governments capable of entering space.
The first cras were slow, clunky and unreliable, now my car is fast, clunky and unreliable, look at the progress that can be made when we have more then one group finding solutions to simple problems!
It was a 1997 ford 15 passenger van with the 6.8L v10, the thing just took off, luckily we were west of Minot N. Dakota, so there was nothing to hit. With the brakes to teh floor the thing would barely get below 50mph, as it was it was well over 100 mph, even though the limiter was set at 85. we had to cut the engine off and drift to a stop with the van in neutral, and no power steering or brakes. Even after putting the van in park, and turning off the engine, and letting it sit, and making sure there were no stuck throttle linkages, when we restarted it after a few minutes it went straight to 6000 rpm! We sat on the side of the road for quite a while before we decided that we would chance driving that death mobile again, and we never again touched the cruise control.
PS. west of Minot North Dakota, you can safely drive 100 mph in emergencies because there are no towns, houses, farms, hills, turns, or trees.
The average vehicle only equires about 7-8 hp to maintain highway speed, and that includes running all of the little toys you are using inside the vehicle as well! If you strip that crap out, with the exception of what is required by law, a 10hp/7kw draw on the batteries should allow you to maintain 60 mph, I do have to admit that your 0-60 mph time may end up being a minute or 4 unless you happen to get a beneficial tailwind or convienantly placed hill.
neither, thank you very much, type in teh dark actually, and don't care that much about spelling anyway, it's the content that matters, not the imperfections in the presentation.
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I think that these battaries could be a great alternative for electric cars and other things that the science fiction world has promised us, if we couls make a battarie capable of producing 7,000 watts, with a capaciter storage bank so we could then draw 14kw for up to 15 seconds then I could replace the engine in my truck with a 10hp electric, boostable to 20hp for short periods of acceleration without much trouble, and since it is a truck I could handle having the battary weight in at as amuch as 800-1200 lbs and still have the truck be functional. Although ideally 20hp motor, 14kw continous, 28kw peak, and it wouldn't accelerate like one of those old VW diesel trucks coming home from the lumberyard.
I do suppose that teh cost factor would make these far more expensive then running gasoline, at least in the short term, so I suppose that I will avoid holding my breath until later.
I live in Duluth, Minnesota (great white north), and we are making a lot of progress througth tech kiosks and access points in touristy areas to become more and more of a wired city, unfortunatly duluth is geographically a huge city since it is about 50 miles from one end of town to the other despite that we only have about 85,000 people. Since I am in the hinterlands on one end I woul never be on an access point, and even if they did set one up it would only be able to serve about 20 houses. And since, despite being in town I am in the middle of nowhere I can't get wireless, dsl, or cable, and those phone wires hand hammered by Thor himself don't support anything faster then 28.8. Help!
Over the last 30 years (and a few odd days) of my life I have been extrordinarily healthy, I do occasionally get sick, but that should be expected, I smoke, I live in a part of the continental United States that is pretty colse to the tundra, nad I really (until recently) didn't eat well, on top of that I drink a lot, and spend time in large groups of people. The secret to my incredible disease resistance seems to have been not taking antibiotics, and just fighting the damn thing off by sitting at home eating chicken (or fake chicken) soup! If you use antibiotics for every cut every time you will end up with an immune system that no longer has the ability to fight off any infection! Despite what the pharmacutical companies tell us those old family recipies that worked for our great grandparents may be best, so find out what they were, or if thier dead now try google.
How did he manage to keep track of this on a M$ box without catching a few of those viruses? I have found the easiest way to avoid viruses is to delete or disable explorer and outlook, but as a M$ employee they might frown upon that. The comment about the 1.4 meg html email is th ereason I dont read html email, he eh, text only baby, because your not 1337 if you cant send a sub 150 byte email (including headers).
I have a firewall, and I watch what I do (I am the virus hunter, I can tell a virus from pico'ing the attachment) The firewall is a freebee, and I just run ad-aware because unfortunatly getting rid of explorer seems to cause fatal system errors (don't worry, it's not actually running). And in all reality I haven't had a spyware issue yet, just cookies. Does this mean that I am one of those fortunate few who understood IBM DOS, and APPLE DOS, PRODOS, FORTRAN, and all of the other stuff that I learned and thought I had forgotten, but somehow it inadvertantly helps me?
I fear the next addition on the list of fees could be a fee alowing the continuation of the carrying of 2600 hertz over the phone, not that most people would understand, but how many people would realize that the service that they are charging for has since been repolaced with a message bithing us out for 'attempting to compromise thier service' Hell they are charging us for use of the lines that they are running accross our properties for free, arrgghhhh.
Oh well, I am ranting, someone please stop me
Ahhh, opposable thumbs have sooooo many uses, way more then they tell you about in science class. I might also bring some wet-wipes, disenfectant, rubbing alcohol, and maybe some tequila for me (after all it has incredible inhibitance clearing qualities)
So, where would the best place to hitchhike be, after all, I do need to get back home to my home planet one of these days...
I am guessing that I will have to do a bit more than flash the driver (as if I was female anyway) to get a ride, arrgghhh. Maybe they follow the unspoken rules of the road (watch Dogma)!
One day the system up and crashed, I did answer, "May I have your user name... Thanks... Yes we are experiencing difficulties and are working to repair it, have a nice day" click.
lather, rince, repeat (234 times)
Another day...
"Do you have biometric authentication?"
"This is dialup, no, bye" click
"I had smoke coming out of my computer, is that bad?"
"yes, it's dead, bye" click
"I just got the internet and I was wondering where all the porn is at"
"It's 2/3rds of the internet, just search on google..."
"what's google?"
click
Sometimes I miss doing that job, and I was much better at hacky sack when I was talking to customers anyway! (except when I was laughing after getting the hack flung across the room by the ceiling fan)
anybody have the video pin outs for a amiga 500? I sent my athlon 2600 over to a friends house to do video editing and I want to see if I can get the damn thing to go online, or something like that. Yes, I know it's off topic, but hell, it's close
Most of this winter we didn't have enough snow to cover the grass, of course I got in a bad car accident, broke five ribs, got a concussion, and two days later we got 2 feet of snow! Luckily my roommate shoveled for me.
I, of course, sat in my window and watched him suffering with the shoveling while I chased pain-killers with beer. (not recommended, but damn fun)
Isn't the governments position that global warming doesn't exist? That will be interesting, I live in a semi-artic area of Minnesota and I have noticed that it is much warmer now then it was when I was a kid. I remember many mornings waiting out for the bus when it was twenty+ below zero, and now we only see it that cold on alternating years, what gives? I do have to admit that it got unusually cold for a few days this winter. It was difficult to even get my cigarette lit the day it was 35 below, I give props to the old Toyota though, it started just fine!
I work for a computer recycling busines, and new inkjet printers are immidiatly dismantled (often with great prejudice and furious use of air-gun). Older laser printers I will generally test, and dot-matrix Okidata printers I covet and hold dear to my heart on thier own personal pallet.
(If your looking for me I am the one with the "All Equipment must be DESTROYED" sign above my desk.)
If you have all of your frozen meals in those little plastic cylinders that they use at the bank, you could pick your poison, WHOOSH, it gets tubed to the microwave, cooks it, and then when it's done WHOOOSH! have it delivered to the little port that comes out by your computer! If done properly it could even the clean and reload the little cylinder that it delivers your food in!
All you will have to do then is mount all of this up in your fully networked bathroom and you will never have to move again.
Well, I try to make all of my connections to BNC (blond ~n~ cute). Unfortunatly my networking skills seem to be rather lacking, as I just can't seem to ping any of them. Maybe with the diamond token ring my success rate for pinging a BNC will improve. Otherwise I will have to go back to using ether again....
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Oh, I know I have nough, white, yellow, red, grey, black, blue, that's a lego rubicks cube waiting to happen!
And this would be more entertaining then just trying to build riduiculasly tall freestanding towers (my records have been limited by ceiling height) or ridiculasly long suspention bridges (using legos as cables and all)
My record on that one was a 9 foot span that held a couple of pounds!
Of course it would not be as entertaining as building the lego airplanes as smashing them into my bedroom walls to se where all of the passengers ended up in my room!
I live right on the shore od lake Superior, and although only 1300 feet deep, there is strange stuff down there, and there are other places like Lake Tanganika, and Lake Baikal, that are incredibly deep, freshwater, and largely unexplored. Lake Tanganika may actually be an excellent research location considering that Africa happens to be ripping in half at that point.
How many people vote fo keeping Alvin alive as a more mobile research vessel, to research places other than the oceans, but some of the more confined bodies of water.
I have no problem spending money on computer hardware, but I balk at spending anything on software. More than half of the time it does not work the way would like so I get rid of it, and for that reason alone I refuse to pay for it. On the flipside of that arguement though, when I find something that I really do like I will buy it, even though I have a cracked copy.
If the software industry wants to put an end to piracy, maybe they could try putting out software that doesn't suck rocks once in a while. Although I know this would be tough for M$ to stomach, there are a lot of companies hat are coiming relatively close and just need to push quality to the last step to be respected and trusted.
It's really easy, all we have to do is Kill all the People! Well, Kill all of the people and replace them with trees, and other vegetation. The reason we are in the pickle that we are in is we are over running the planet.
So my suggestion is to run right now to the nearest ammo shop, and buy up the most high powered assualt rifle you can find, with plenty of ammo, of course. Find a high spot, and then kill everyone in sight, finishing off with yourself of course, because any job worth doing is worth doing all of the way!
And if you can't bring yourself to kill others, or yourselves, then simply go to a nice large open area, near a high spot, and mill around for a while.
In the meantime I will continue my life up in teh woods, avoiding the usage of oil and other evils, being and enviromentally friendly as I can!
P.S. When I moved in I sent the Heating Oil usage in this house from 100 gallons a month to 10 gallons a months, through the burning of dead timber from the woods that was converting itself back to carbon dioxide anyway.
The more groups that we have looking for creative solutions for tasks, the more original, creative, and reveloutionary the solutions are going to become. If we are ever going to learn to exist outside of the limits of our own planet, and travel arcoss the massive distance between the stars we will first have to get more then just 4 bloated governments capable of entering space.
The first cras were slow, clunky and unreliable, now my car is fast, clunky and unreliable, look at the progress that can be made when we have more then one group finding solutions to simple problems!
It was a 1997 ford 15 passenger van with the 6.8L v10, the thing just took off, luckily we were west of Minot N. Dakota, so there was nothing to hit. With the brakes to teh floor the thing would barely get below 50mph, as it was it was well over 100 mph, even though the limiter was set at 85. we had to cut the engine off and drift to a stop with the van in neutral, and no power steering or brakes. Even after putting the van in park, and turning off the engine, and letting it sit, and making sure there were no stuck throttle linkages, when we restarted it after a few minutes it went straight to 6000 rpm! We sat on the side of the road for quite a while before we decided that we would chance driving that death mobile again, and we never again touched the cruise control.
PS. west of Minot North Dakota, you can safely drive 100 mph in emergencies because there are no towns, houses, farms, hills, turns, or trees.
The average vehicle only equires about 7-8 hp to maintain highway speed, and that includes running all of the little toys you are using inside the vehicle as well! If you strip that crap out, with the exception of what is required by law, a 10hp/7kw draw on the batteries should allow you to maintain 60 mph, I do have to admit that your 0-60 mph time may end up being a minute or 4 unless you happen to get a beneficial tailwind or convienantly placed hill.
neither, thank you very much, type in teh dark actually, and don't care that much about spelling anyway, it's the content that matters, not the imperfections in the presentation.
I think that these battaries could be a great alternative for electric cars and other things that the science fiction world has promised us, if we couls make a battarie capable of producing 7,000 watts, with a capaciter storage bank so we could then draw 14kw for up to 15 seconds then I could replace the engine in my truck with a 10hp electric, boostable to 20hp for short periods of acceleration without much trouble, and since it is a truck I could handle having the battary weight in at as amuch as 800-1200 lbs and still have the truck be functional. Although ideally 20hp motor, 14kw continous, 28kw peak, and it wouldn't accelerate like one of those old VW diesel trucks coming home from the lumberyard. I do suppose that teh cost factor would make these far more expensive then running gasoline, at least in the short term, so I suppose that I will avoid holding my breath until later.
I live in Duluth, Minnesota (great white north), and we are making a lot of progress througth tech kiosks and access points in touristy areas to become more and more of a wired city, unfortunatly duluth is geographically a huge city since it is about 50 miles from one end of town to the other despite that we only have about 85,000 people. Since I am in the hinterlands on one end I woul never be on an access point, and even if they did set one up it would only be able to serve about 20 houses. And since, despite being in town I am in the middle of nowhere I can't get wireless, dsl, or cable, and those phone wires hand hammered by Thor himself don't support anything faster then 28.8. Help!
Now if I had an internet connection strong enough t0 download them (28.8 sucks) I would be set, anyone want to convert it to a 32 bitrate mp3?
Over the last 30 years (and a few odd days) of my life I have been extrordinarily healthy, I do occasionally get sick, but that should be expected, I smoke, I live in a part of the continental United States that is pretty colse to the tundra, nad I really (until recently) didn't eat well, on top of that I drink a lot, and spend time in large groups of people. The secret to my incredible disease resistance seems to have been not taking antibiotics, and just fighting the damn thing off by sitting at home eating chicken (or fake chicken) soup! If you use antibiotics for every cut every time you will end up with an immune system that no longer has the ability to fight off any infection! Despite what the pharmacutical companies tell us those old family recipies that worked for our great grandparents may be best, so find out what they were, or if thier dead now try google.
How did he manage to keep track of this on a M$ box without catching a few of those viruses? I have found the easiest way to avoid viruses is to delete or disable explorer and outlook, but as a M$ employee they might frown upon that. The comment about the 1.4 meg html email is th ereason I dont read html email, he eh, text only baby, because your not 1337 if you cant send a sub 150 byte email (including headers).
I have a firewall, and I watch what I do (I am the virus hunter, I can tell a virus from pico'ing the attachment) The firewall is a freebee, and I just run ad-aware because unfortunatly getting rid of explorer seems to cause fatal system errors (don't worry, it's not actually running). And in all reality I haven't had a spyware issue yet, just cookies. Does this mean that I am one of those fortunate few who understood IBM DOS, and APPLE DOS, PRODOS, FORTRAN, and all of the other stuff that I learned and thought I had forgotten, but somehow it inadvertantly helps me?
I fear the next addition on the list of fees could be a fee alowing the continuation of the carrying of 2600 hertz over the phone, not that most people would understand, but how many people would realize that the service that they are charging for has since been repolaced with a message bithing us out for 'attempting to compromise thier service' Hell they are charging us for use of the lines that they are running accross our properties for free, arrgghhhh.
Oh well, I am ranting, someone please stop me
oops, me bad, hopefully they wont send those rollerblading hockey assholes after me for that
Ahhh, opposable thumbs have sooooo many uses, way more then they tell you about in science class. I might also bring some wet-wipes, disenfectant, rubbing alcohol, and maybe some tequila for me (after all it has incredible inhibitance clearing qualities)
So, where would the best place to hitchhike be, after all, I do need to get back home to my home planet one of these days...
I am guessing that I will have to do a bit more than flash the driver (as if I was female anyway) to get a ride, arrgghhh. Maybe they follow the unspoken rules of the road (watch Dogma)!
One day the system up and crashed, I did answer, "May I have your user name... Thanks... Yes we are experiencing difficulties and are working to repair it, have a nice day" click.
lather, rince, repeat (234 times)
Another day...
"Do you have biometric authentication?"
"This is dialup, no, bye" click
"I had smoke coming out of my computer, is that bad?"
"yes, it's dead, bye" click
"I just got the internet and I was wondering where all the porn is at"
"It's 2/3rds of the internet, just search on google..."
"what's google?"
click
Sometimes I miss doing that job, and I was much better at hacky sack when I was talking to customers anyway! (except when I was laughing after getting the hack flung across the room by the ceiling fan)
anybody have the video pin outs for a amiga 500? I sent my athlon 2600 over to a friends house to do video editing and I want to see if I can get the damn thing to go online, or something like that.
Yes, I know it's off topic, but hell, it's close
Most of this winter we didn't have enough snow to cover the grass, of course I got in a bad car accident, broke five ribs, got a concussion, and two days later we got 2 feet of snow! Luckily my roommate shoveled for me.
I, of course, sat in my window and watched him suffering with the shoveling while I chased pain-killers with beer. (not recommended, but damn fun)
Isn't the governments position that global warming doesn't exist? That will be interesting, I live in a semi-artic area of Minnesota and I have noticed that it is much warmer now then it was when I was a kid. I remember many mornings waiting out for the bus when it was twenty+ below zero, and now we only see it that cold on alternating years, what gives?
I do have to admit that it got unusually cold for a few days this winter. It was difficult to even get my cigarette lit the day it was 35 below, I give props to the old Toyota though, it started just fine!
I work for a computer recycling busines, and new inkjet printers are immidiatly dismantled (often with great prejudice and furious use of air-gun). Older laser printers I will generally test, and dot-matrix Okidata printers I covet and hold dear to my heart on thier own personal pallet.
(If your looking for me I am the one with the "All Equipment must be DESTROYED" sign above my desk.)
If you have all of your frozen meals in those little plastic cylinders that they use at the bank, you could pick your poison, WHOOSH, it gets tubed to the microwave, cooks it, and then when it's done WHOOOSH! have it delivered to the little port that comes out by your computer! If done properly it could even the clean and reload the little cylinder that it delivers your food in!
All you will have to do then is mount all of this up in your fully networked bathroom and you will never have to move again.
Well, I try to make all of my connections to BNC (blond ~n~ cute). Unfortunatly my networking skills seem to be rather lacking, as I just can't seem to ping any of them. Maybe with the diamond token ring my success rate for pinging a BNC will improve. Otherwise I will have to go back to using ether again....