Will probably be about that one -totally unknown-
"ride" at Epcot. You've seen it, you've probably been on it, it's got the largest number of people and it occurs just once a day. It's called the "River of People" and it takes place at closing time nightly. 50-100 thousand people all leave at the same time. And they all go through just one entrance pavillion.
Possible names for the feature film? "Lost in the crowd" or "Dude! Wheres my car II"
Billy Bass, you know that wall mounted goofy fish that sings? they're cheap. they're really cheap now. Go to Walgreens and ask if they have any left...
even comes complete with a red button.
---shudders at the thought of a museum with these as display guides.
"Hi KIDS!. Dead fish here.
This is the second exhibit in the Living Fossils series. And THAT is the Honorable Senator Dirksen over there on the...."
Over here in the REAL world , we have this huge autobahn-like thing called Interstate 75.
as far back as 1980 they began gluing these things called "Botts dots" on the roadway as indicators for motorists. A few placements are quite good: using blue dots to indicate a police call box, red ones to indicate "do not pass zones", why bother spending very much money on something thats going to get pounded by tons of vehicles for the rest of its service life?
Just use the color codes -or- agree on a standard.
the most recent dots I've seen were encased in a steel frame.
Can't wait to see the museum on the Kzinti Homeworld. I want to see how they display a stuffed human. The only human ever to invade the Kzinti royal palace and who tried to kill all inside the compound. (It was a revenge thing)
This was during the Man-Kzinti wars before Man became the victor.
And I wonder what revelations will be made of the altered genome that causes all humans to turn into "Protectors" --Tnuctipun?-
I have nothing but praise for my older E-Machine.
It's one of the Celeron 1.7 Ghz models that came with DDR memory (great improvement BTW)
a 40 Gig HD and a CD burner.
At this point in time, the only add-on I've made is to rip out the blank cover and install a
8x DVD burner (last month). The machine is as stable as any IBM/HP/Dell machine I've ever used
and it was DIRT CHEAP ($399) when I got it at C/C over two years ago.
Show me a better deal, and I'll look, but I've already got a decent, quick desktop with this one.
I don't upgrade often,(previous home machine was an AMD 333
socket 7 that was home-built and OC'd to 450Mhz)
but I have to rate E-machines a solid 9 on a 1 to 10 scale. I'm so happy.
Does anyone know if this works well with the new
AOL hardware being advertised by West Coast Choppers?
I really don't want to cause the end of the Universe by installing the two technologies together......
Listen, I know how to keep from getting capped....
When they come for you on your thirteenth birthday,
hide in the swampy place, and have the foresight to stay hidden from the TRIPODS!
You won't get capped!
Nah, I'll wait til I see it at BigLots.
Thats when we know for sure that this endeavour
is circling the shark tank (to merge two phrases
meant to describe utter failure: circling the drain and jumping the shark tank)
Thats where I got my Bonefone!!
At least you have a CD recorder.... in my day, we had to record the data in a open source called
"print" in one of hundreds of languages. And the medium was called "paper" and we used a chemical tool called "pencil" to "write" the data....
you young kids got it so easy.....
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The Caterpillar manloader is not real.
Caterpillar has no currently available equipment that looks like or operates like the manloader in the film.
I did see video back when they intro'd the movie, and the special effects designer did say they'd caused all kind of problems for Caterpillar.
People wanted to know where they could BUY one.
The special effects people constructed a mock-up
and then used CGI for the motion sequences.
Take a good look at those scenes again...that's not a very real looking Ripley driving the thing
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And on some of the other Japanese pages I found a link that says these guys use (shudder)
Windows 98 SE.
So much for security.....
Oh yes, and the small model they make for home security looks like its an Aibo-sized device carrying a VIA C3 with 256 Mb memory.
Price? I may be wrong, but I did see this
listed for the home unit called Banryu: 1,980,000 Y
and check out the link:
http://www.takanishi.mech.waseda.ac.jp/parallel/in dex_j.htm
and this movie!!
http://www.tmsuk.co.jp/jap/wl/WL_16_04.mpg
found a ENGLISH link to page:
on
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I usually get my paycheck cashed at a local lottery station that cashes checks on the side for a small (1%) fee. I've been working for a corparation that pays really well, and I routinely have a paycheck over a grand in size. That changed last week when the lottery station told all of it's customers that "due to new regulations that would incur greater cost to the lottery station, they will no longer cash checks over $1000." I'm now forced to deposit the check in a bank.
I hate banks.
I know, there are built-in safeguards for my money there, but I cannot help but remember the S&L scandal of a few years back. Lots of people dealt with those guys too, same way, and there were some who lost money by having positive account balances that were not protected by law (FDIC)(I think)
Seems our government thinks we all are suspicious.
Looks like it's time to rattle the cages of the politicians again, and come up with a way to track terrorist money that does not tick of the average american citizen.
I'm scared of the new governments zeal. The distiction between the US and the old USSR is getting smaller and smaller, and we all know how their brand of socialism turned out. Almost total bankruptcy.
I've been wrong before, but I'm seeing things now that I do not want to see. And I'm scared.
I am available for ALL telephone polls. Please call me.
If you do not know the number please look for it in your local telephone directory.
I do however have a small charge of $110 USD for each call that is made to my telephone that does not concern my personal or my family's day to day operations.
These charges will be on your next telephone billing statement.
Thank you and please continue to call me with any polling questions you have, I will gladly answer all of them.
Per the DRM, all information provided by me, the sole content provider and author of MY digital information, all records will be kept and forwarded to the RIAA for billing purposes to your organization's accounts payable department.
As the sole content provider, and since that information now travels down a digital telephone line, the DRM and the RIAA now protect me by law.
have a nice day.
Dateline January 16 2004:
"Mars is inhabited", announced The European Space Agency today. The agency was commenting on publication of photos that were released last week of suspicious shadows on the planetary surface. These shadows, as some believe, are apparently moving too quickly to be generated by the Sun.
The seven digital images were taken with the Beagle's only telephoto high resolution camera, one of six specially designed cameras aboard the lander.
No word is forthcoming about any of the other data being transmitted back though. The British scientific team has relaeased little information, citing national security issues under pressure from several of the nations involved....
Consider this: If the American people are so blind as to ignore the obvious problems with these e-voting machines, then they DESERVE whatever form of government corruption they end up with.
We have a valuable lesson to be learned here.
Fox news is beginning to pick up on this. Lets hope that the media bcomes quite loud in the coming months about the discrepancies and the "changes" made to these machines during and immediately after some recent elections.
If these machines could be hacked, or changed, then I would submit that they are NOT viable as an alternative to conventional voting machines, be they mechanical or punch-paper cards.
I would suggest that we keep the voting process as simple and straightforward as possible, and that we utilize our current methods for counting and recording the votes. No matter how complex it becomes, the voting process must be overseen by a responsible party, one that can be criminally prosecuted for fraud, should it become apparent.
Since no electronic method is 100% secure, I would suggest that we disallow those methods.
Now it's up to you, the people. Do you want someone else telling you how you voted before you vote?
Lets just do the unthinkable and encode the data
into a life form thats viable. Encrypt the data into the dna of a life-form you can raise multiple generations of. -OR- start at the molecular level and use a diamond or silica molecular database. (We'd have to make millions of
copies to ensure only one copie advances to the future, but hey, we're talkin molecules here, how much space are you gonna need?) redundancy, redundancy, redundancy.
I'd like a look at those accoustic "anti-noise" generators. You know the ones, those devices that do a real time noise measurement and produce a sound that is 180 degrees out of phase with the target noise, effectively creating silence from two sources of noise. Heck, they made one for a diesel bus that worked attached to the exhaust pipe and lowered the sound level by a huge amount.
There are aircraft pilot headphones that do the same, made for extreme noise environments like those in helicopters and exposed cockpit aircraft like older biplanes.
This is a simple way to silence those bad pwr supplies and cpu fans.
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ACTUALLY, it's supposed to be in Kentucky. Dont ask me how I know that...
Will probably be about that one -totally unknown- "ride" at Epcot. You've seen it, you've probably been on it, it's got the largest number of people and it occurs just once a day. It's called the "River of People" and it takes place at closing time nightly. 50-100 thousand people all leave at the same time. And they all go through just one entrance pavillion. Possible names for the feature film? "Lost in the crowd" or "Dude! Wheres my car II"
Billy Bass, you know that wall mounted goofy fish that sings? they're cheap. they're really cheap now. Go to Walgreens and ask if they have any left... even comes complete with a red button. ---shudders at the thought of a museum with these as display guides. "Hi KIDS!. Dead fish here. This is the second exhibit in the Living Fossils series. And THAT is the Honorable Senator Dirksen over there on the...."
Over here in the REAL world , we have this huge autobahn-like thing called Interstate 75. as far back as 1980 they began gluing these things called "Botts dots" on the roadway as indicators for motorists. A few placements are quite good: using blue dots to indicate a police call box, red ones to indicate "do not pass zones", why bother spending very much money on something thats going to get pounded by tons of vehicles for the rest of its service life? Just use the color codes -or- agree on a standard. the most recent dots I've seen were encased in a steel frame.
Can't wait to see the museum on the Kzinti Homeworld. I want to see how they display a stuffed human. The only human ever to invade the Kzinti royal palace and who tried to kill all inside the compound. (It was a revenge thing) This was during the Man-Kzinti wars before Man became the victor. And I wonder what revelations will be made of the altered genome that causes all humans to turn into "Protectors" --Tnuctipun?-
I have nothing but praise for my older E-Machine. It's one of the Celeron 1.7 Ghz models that came with DDR memory (great improvement BTW) a 40 Gig HD and a CD burner. At this point in time, the only add-on I've made is to rip out the blank cover and install a 8x DVD burner (last month). The machine is as stable as any IBM/HP/Dell machine I've ever used and it was DIRT CHEAP ($399) when I got it at C/C over two years ago. Show me a better deal, and I'll look, but I've already got a decent, quick desktop with this one. I don't upgrade often,(previous home machine was an AMD 333 socket 7 that was home-built and OC'd to 450Mhz) but I have to rate E-machines a solid 9 on a 1 to 10 scale. I'm so happy.
SHOW ME THE MONEY. NOW.
and I do NOT like the artwork.
Does anyone know if this works well with the new AOL hardware being advertised by West Coast Choppers? I really don't want to cause the end of the Universe by installing the two technologies together......
Listen, I know how to keep from getting capped.... When they come for you on your thirteenth birthday, hide in the swampy place, and have the foresight to stay hidden from the TRIPODS! You won't get capped!
Nah, I'll wait til I see it at BigLots. Thats when we know for sure that this endeavour is circling the shark tank (to merge two phrases meant to describe utter failure: circling the drain and jumping the shark tank) Thats where I got my Bonefone!!
At least you have a CD recorder.... in my day, we had to record the data in a open source called "print" in one of hundreds of languages. And the medium was called "paper" and we used a chemical tool called "pencil" to "write" the data.... you young kids got it so easy.....
The Caterpillar manloader is not real. Caterpillar has no currently available equipment that looks like or operates like the manloader in the film. I did see video back when they intro'd the movie, and the special effects designer did say they'd caused all kind of problems for Caterpillar. People wanted to know where they could BUY one. The special effects people constructed a mock-up and then used CGI for the motion sequences. Take a good look at those scenes again...that's not a very real looking Ripley driving the thing
And on some of the other Japanese pages I found a link that says these guys use (shudder) Windows 98 SE. So much for security..... Oh yes, and the small model they make for home security looks like its an Aibo-sized device carrying a VIA C3 with 256 Mb memory. Price? I may be wrong, but I did see this listed for the home unit called Banryu: 1,980,000 Y and check out the link: http://www.takanishi.mech.waseda.ac.jp/parallel/in dex_j.htm
and this movie!!
http://www.tmsuk.co.jp/jap/wl/WL_16_04.mpg
http://www.tmsuk.co.jp/eng/index.html
I usually get my paycheck cashed at a local lottery station that cashes checks on the side for a small (1%) fee. I've been working for a corparation that pays really well, and I routinely have a paycheck over a grand in size. That changed last week when the lottery station told all of it's customers that "due to new regulations that would incur greater cost to the lottery station, they will no longer cash checks over $1000." I'm now forced to deposit the check in a bank. I hate banks. I know, there are built-in safeguards for my money there, but I cannot help but remember the S&L scandal of a few years back. Lots of people dealt with those guys too, same way, and there were some who lost money by having positive account balances that were not protected by law (FDIC)(I think) Seems our government thinks we all are suspicious. Looks like it's time to rattle the cages of the politicians again, and come up with a way to track terrorist money that does not tick of the average american citizen. I'm scared of the new governments zeal. The distiction between the US and the old USSR is getting smaller and smaller, and we all know how their brand of socialism turned out. Almost total bankruptcy. I've been wrong before, but I'm seeing things now that I do not want to see. And I'm scared.
I am available for ALL telephone polls. Please call me. If you do not know the number please look for it in your local telephone directory. I do however have a small charge of $110 USD for each call that is made to my telephone that does not concern my personal or my family's day to day operations. These charges will be on your next telephone billing statement. Thank you and please continue to call me with any polling questions you have, I will gladly answer all of them. Per the DRM, all information provided by me, the sole content provider and author of MY digital information, all records will be kept and forwarded to the RIAA for billing purposes to your organization's accounts payable department. As the sole content provider, and since that information now travels down a digital telephone line, the DRM and the RIAA now protect me by law. have a nice day.
Last seen in orbit. huge reward. call xx-xxx-xxx-xxxx
Dateline January 16 2004: "Mars is inhabited", announced The European Space Agency today. The agency was commenting on publication of photos that were released last week of suspicious shadows on the planetary surface. These shadows, as some believe, are apparently moving too quickly to be generated by the Sun. The seven digital images were taken with the Beagle's only telephoto high resolution camera, one of six specially designed cameras aboard the lander. No word is forthcoming about any of the other data being transmitted back though. The British scientific team has relaeased little information, citing national security issues under pressure from several of the nations involved....
or do all the "robots" that come out of Sony's facility look like toys that were on sale at Biglots last year?
Consider this: If the American people are so blind as to ignore the obvious problems with these e-voting machines, then they DESERVE whatever form of government corruption they end up with. We have a valuable lesson to be learned here. Fox news is beginning to pick up on this. Lets hope that the media bcomes quite loud in the coming months about the discrepancies and the "changes" made to these machines during and immediately after some recent elections. If these machines could be hacked, or changed, then I would submit that they are NOT viable as an alternative to conventional voting machines, be they mechanical or punch-paper cards. I would suggest that we keep the voting process as simple and straightforward as possible, and that we utilize our current methods for counting and recording the votes. No matter how complex it becomes, the voting process must be overseen by a responsible party, one that can be criminally prosecuted for fraud, should it become apparent. Since no electronic method is 100% secure, I would suggest that we disallow those methods. Now it's up to you, the people. Do you want someone else telling you how you voted before you vote?
Lets just do the unthinkable and encode the data into a life form thats viable. Encrypt the data into the dna of a life-form you can raise multiple generations of. -OR- start at the molecular level and use a diamond or silica molecular database. (We'd have to make millions of copies to ensure only one copie advances to the future, but hey, we're talkin molecules here, how much space are you gonna need?) redundancy, redundancy, redundancy.
I'd like a look at those accoustic "anti-noise" generators. You know the ones, those devices that do a real time noise measurement and produce a sound that is 180 degrees out of phase with the target noise, effectively creating silence from two sources of noise. Heck, they made one for a diesel bus that worked attached to the exhaust pipe and lowered the sound level by a huge amount. There are aircraft pilot headphones that do the same, made for extreme noise environments like those in helicopters and exposed cockpit aircraft like older biplanes. This is a simple way to silence those bad pwr supplies and cpu fans.
I'm not going to say it..... I have standards.
Wait a minute. Wasn't Steve Jobs the Apple guy? He's run a business like this before. And I think it was Apple. Is my memory still par here?