What next - somebody trying to evaluate the efficacy of NaCl in trapping avians when applied to their aft flight surfaces?
To test the efficacy of salting a bird's wings in order to trap it, I put a 25 lbs. bag of Morton Salt on the wings of a sparrow, a duck, and then a canary. The birds were in each case successfully trapped. Also, they were completely flattened. Interestingly, the muted quack the duck made did not echo.
There's more possibilities for the future than that. It only takes a handful of motivated people to drastically alter a civilization. People have had a taste of liberty over the past few centuries, and I don't think any backward regression will be long tolerated. Big corporations are dying all the time (sometimes a good thing, sometimes a bad thing); goverments grow, stagnate and die too.
you're forgetting that SCO's attourney Mark Heise also now claim the GPL is "invalid". So they in fact do threaten earlier Linux distros with their PR campaign at least.
Actually, some scientists of the Manhattan project did indeed get themselves killed from assemblies of fissionable material going slightly supercritical. Scientists through the ages have poisoned, electrocuted, drowned, shot, burned, disemboweled and blown up themselves.
I don't want to sound rude either, but
"Elections in Brazil are a joke. Everyone knows who will win in advance. Racism is rampant. African-Brazilians are treated as second class citizens. Life is cheap. Women give birth on sinks in public hospitals. The sick die waiting in hospital queues before they see a doctor. The police is corrupt and crimminal. The education system is in tatters. People are starving to death in some of the poorer states in Brazil. Our leaders have no respect for human rights and have no sense of social justice," -- Guilherme Vergueiro, African Brazilian activist
heh, on my way to my parent's house in Brookfield (8 miles west of Chicago), I had to stop for over 30 minutes at Maple Avenue and Brookfield at 1:00pm on August 31, while the #$%&# Burlington Northern / Sante Fe railroad company BROKE THE LAW AND HELD UP TRAFFIC, AS USUAL!!!!!!!!
the chances for something that exists to exist are exactly 1 in 1. I believe in design with a Designer too, but I wouldn't use statistics to argue my case.
and remember the "rail-road robber barons" won --- the railroad right-of-ways are still here, and they can block the traffic in most American cities for long periods of time.
the are synthetic in the meaning of "made artificially", not in other definition of the word "not genuine".
Diamonds from the ground always have impurities, "inclusions", that can show up under sufficient magnification. The cool thing about these man-made carbon crystals is that there are no visible inclusions under any amount of magnification. So which kind of jewelry would a person want, a $7,000 VSI (very small inclusion) one-carat natural gem, or a $1000 5 caret monster that is UTTERLY FLAWLESS under any optical magnification.
Maybe there are countries that *need* controlling, because their "goverments" are stupid and evil, and the citizens suffer and die because of it. Sure, tell me I'm elitist because there's not one person within a hundred miles of where I'm sitting whose belly is bloated from starvation, not one woman within a hundred miles being gang-raped by my country's military, not one leper whose rotted body parts are being eaten by flies, etc.etc. Sure, my system is no better than theirs; I've no right to criticize or make their system a little more like mine!
I like the advice I heard that "your company's web site is like your front lobby. You wouldn't let your marketing people design your front lobby, would you?"
All the cheesy crap and glitz on many business home pages make an otherwise serious enterprise look like a burlesque show.
use of a personal cellphone camera to catch a criminal
heck, we've already seen use of a personal cellphone result in missile and smart bomb targeting.
But here at home I for one think our police can do more good old fashioned legwork, rather than erode our rights and privacy by spying on us and our data. Another amendment to the Constitution might be the answer.
I've never understood the mentality of having exactly the same type of weapon as the enemy, and having more of them. Just because your enemy has developed biowarfare, does that mean you need it? Instead, for example, couldn't you just develop good suits and breathing gear, while continuing to improve your say nuclear or chemical or near-lightspeed hand held projectile launcher.
aaahh, but then the "blocking" is observed to be EXACTLY proportional to the mass (as observed for past 200 years), *not* the density of the object.....THAT is the problem.
hmm, maybe a good idea for an electric stove, but put that on the blue natural gas flame & you'll be burning some diamond (somewhere between 900 - 1100 degrees C it'll start to go) and making graphite of out some of the rest.
Over 200 years ago massive objects were observed to attract each other and deflect a torsion balance in a direction at a right angle to the earth's gravitational field. So your interesting hypothesis (and I do like it) needs some modification.
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ewww, I've horrified myself with the thought of what kind of cruft is in your keyboard.
What next - somebody trying to evaluate the efficacy of NaCl in trapping avians when applied to their aft flight surfaces?
To test the efficacy of salting a bird's wings in order to trap it, I put a 25 lbs. bag of Morton Salt on the wings of a sparrow, a duck, and then a canary. The birds were in each case successfully trapped. Also, they were completely flattened. Interestingly, the muted quack the duck made did not echo.
There's more possibilities for the future than that. It only takes a handful of motivated people to drastically alter a civilization. People have had a taste of liberty over the past few centuries, and I don't think any backward regression will be long tolerated. Big corporations are dying all the time (sometimes a good thing, sometimes a bad thing); goverments grow, stagnate and die too.
you're forgetting that SCO's attourney Mark Heise also now claim the GPL is "invalid". So they in fact do threaten earlier Linux distros with their PR campaign at least.
yeah, powdered iron is very flammable and can even be explosive if suspended in air - yikes!
don't forget the magnesium; otherwise you're only going to get 2200 degrees
Actually, some scientists of the Manhattan project did indeed get themselves killed from assemblies of fissionable material going slightly supercritical. Scientists through the ages have poisoned, electrocuted, drowned, shot, burned, disemboweled and blown up themselves.
I don't want to sound rude either, but "Elections in Brazil are a joke. Everyone knows who will win in advance. Racism is rampant. African-Brazilians are treated as second class citizens. Life is cheap. Women give birth on sinks in public hospitals. The sick die waiting in hospital queues before they see a doctor. The police is corrupt and crimminal. The education system is in tatters. People are starving to death in some of the poorer states in Brazil. Our leaders have no respect for human rights and have no sense of social justice," -- Guilherme Vergueiro, African Brazilian activist
heh, on my way to my parent's house in Brookfield (8 miles west of Chicago), I had to stop for over 30 minutes at Maple Avenue and Brookfield at 1:00pm on August 31, while the #$%&# Burlington Northern / Sante Fe railroad company BROKE THE LAW AND HELD UP TRAFFIC, AS USUAL!!!!!!!!
the chances for something that exists to exist are exactly 1 in 1. I believe in design with a Designer too, but I wouldn't use statistics to argue my case.
and remember the "rail-road robber barons" won --- the railroad right-of-ways are still here, and they can block the traffic in most American cities for long periods of time.
** sniffs plastic cap ** Ahhhh, June...a good month
the are synthetic in the meaning of "made artificially", not in other definition of the word "not genuine".
Diamonds from the ground always have impurities, "inclusions", that can show up under sufficient magnification. The cool thing about these man-made carbon crystals is that there are no visible inclusions under any amount of magnification. So which kind of jewelry would a person want, a $7,000 VSI (very small inclusion) one-carat natural gem, or a $1000 5 caret monster that is UTTERLY FLAWLESS under any optical magnification.
it is a thousand times better, but not perfect.
Maybe there are countries that *need* controlling, because their "goverments" are stupid and evil, and the citizens suffer and die because of it. Sure, tell me I'm elitist because there's not one person within a hundred miles of where I'm sitting whose belly is bloated from starvation, not one woman within a hundred miles being gang-raped by my country's military, not one leper whose rotted body parts are being eaten by flies, etc.etc. Sure, my system is no better than theirs; I've no right to criticize or make their system a little more like mine!
I like the advice I heard that "your company's web site is like your front lobby. You wouldn't let your marketing people design your front lobby, would you?"
All the cheesy crap and glitz on many business home pages make an otherwise serious enterprise look like a burlesque show.
Did you ride the big endian of the train, or the little endian?
they had to be removed from the stock 1982 DeLoreans because the resulting fire trails violated emissions standards
It took some time to explain to the government that the "bad guys" already have access to strong encryption
you must mean those damn Canadians
use of a personal cellphone camera to catch a criminal
heck, we've already seen use of a personal cellphone result in missile and smart bomb targeting.
But here at home I for one think our police can do more good old fashioned legwork, rather than erode our rights and privacy by spying on us and our data. Another amendment to the Constitution might be the answer.
I've never understood the mentality of having exactly the same type of weapon as the enemy, and having more of them. Just because your enemy has developed biowarfare, does that mean you need it? Instead, for example, couldn't you just develop good suits and breathing gear, while continuing to improve your say nuclear or chemical or near-lightspeed hand held projectile launcher.
Make the core of the weapon easily removable and thus periodically "rechargable"
aaahh, but then the "blocking" is observed to be EXACTLY proportional to the mass (as observed for past 200 years), *not* the density of the object.....THAT is the problem.
hmm, maybe a good idea for an electric stove, but put that on the blue natural gas flame & you'll be burning some diamond (somewhere between 900 - 1100 degrees C it'll start to go) and making graphite of out some of the rest.
Over 200 years ago massive objects were observed to attract each other and deflect a torsion balance in a direction at a right angle to the earth's gravitational field. So your interesting hypothesis (and I do like it) needs some modification.