--my criteria preferences are content and useability. Obviously I want the content I am seeking, but I dislike sites that use active scripting for links. C'mon, is this really necessary? Sucks. I cruise with javascript and images (most of the time) off for instance, I detest having to go turn it on and reload the page just to go to the next link, or freeking image buttons with no alt text so you can't see what they are supposed to link to. That's just freaking lazy on the webperson's fault. Pure lazy.
Besides that I don't mind ads at all, sometimes there's something I want to look at in an ad, I'll go there. I have animations set to run once, so that fixes that. If flash won't let me proceed, too bad, I trash the site, their loss. Rest of the time if it's something I'm not interested in I ignore it, same as television, it's never bothered me. Frankly, I appreciate the advertisers helping to pay for content. that's how it works, well, until the ISP's stop ridiculous restrictions on private hosting, and until it's as easy as installing one program to bypass using an isp at all and just lease the wire for joe user. It sure would be bogus to have to actively pay for every web page and log in with another cookie and etc, there's enough of that already. The only other thing that is mildly annoying are websites that assume everyone makes 100 grand a year and lives in some urban nirvanaland and is on a broadband connection with a multi gighz processor machine and some near-wallsized monitor, now THAT is annoying on an older slower computer. I know that a several year old computer is considered ancient now, but uhh, why is that again? what for? A website that's bloat-coded for just new and fast is the same as telling me I can't use the road unless I own a brand new ferrari, that elitist crap can go blow too. Screw that site. And the browser/os specific pages, puhleeze, go away, just say no to internet monopolies.
I guess that'senough of a rant, what I LIKE is decent modest sized pages, not too many graphics per page, no automagical plugins, I want to CHOOSE via clicking if I want some doo dad to run, and I want "truth in linkvertising", I want a link to take me to what is really claimed to be there,no more and no less, not a tease, popup, pop under, or other nonsense of that type. In other words, don't choose for me, let ME choose please.
--this will sure knock the world wide web on it's assets:
Specifically, the amendment bans "any written material, any image or any other representation of ideas or theories, which advocates, promotes or incites hatred, discrimination or violence, against any individual or group of individuals, based on race, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin, as well as religion if used as pretext for any of these factors."
--I can think of several large US sites off the top of my head that advocate genocide against muslims on a daily basis, just for one of many examples. There's lots more, just those stand out from their knee-jerk vileness. I got no use for the opposite either,insane ranting mad jihaders can byte my shorts. I don't like either of them, but they can have "their say", I say. That's their privelege and right far as I am concerned, I believe in "born with" rights for every human being, no matter what country they are in, and freedom of speech is a big one of those rights.
I promise to keep railing against the UN, globalism and goons in general, with am emphasis on US goons, as I live here. I don't know if they-the EU- class that as "hate speech" or not, I don't discriminate based on religion,color or whatnot. If you are a totalitarian goose stepping goon, whether you wear robes or a western suit or some "uniform" or jeans and sneakers, well, you can officially "get stuffed". You suck, bigtime. "You" is anyone who fits that description
--wonder how they will block sites, the europeans? Will this lead to at least three big nets now, the basic world wide net, an europaen-union net and the fascist goon mainland chinese net? What are they gonna do, cut the cables under the ocean?
No idea really, pretty weird concept, but governments mostly exist to perpetuate their own bureaucracy and their cash benefactors and patrons, so I guess they will keep restricitng it as far as they can with advanced tech. Big shame so many geeks will work for them and take the blood money.
..write a script to gently but firmly ask politiely that your visitors arriving using IE would have a better and more secure "total internet surfing experience" if they "upgraded their browsers" to "a better one" then provide some links to them.
Like, why keep taking it and taking it and taking it and taking it? Don't insult them, just show them a different thing that's "better" for them. Most people just slap don't know, the "internet"is "windows and explorer" because it came with their new conpooter and "microsoft" somehow "owns" the internet. We have to do everything we can to get this brainwashing reversed..
--don't know about anyone else, but I'd swap plugins for microsoft getting their butt kicked and told to un-bundle explorer. How many articles about pages not working except under explorer? And if they aren't stopped, palladium in the hardware, and who knows what other internet hijacking schemes they got cooking. I want the INTERNET not microsoftnet. Trading off plugins is a small price to pay and if these guys are taking the high ground over money, more power to them! And technically they could allow anyone else to use plugins, they could selectively just disallow microsoft and microsoft would just have to eat it , and wouldn't that be special! The 800 lb swaggering bully gorilla forced to go sit in the corner! cool! They do that, my cash donation to them is in the mail the next day.
--I am betting this is like cal energy crisis. artificially high prices brought about by artifically manipulated supply "numbers". Now I honestly don't know if the middleman bandwith "traders" exist or not like the "spot market" for the middleman profit leeches do with electricity and natural gas, but I am more than suspicious of this bandwith crunch and cost. Ya it's expensive, here's the solution, the cable/phone/whatever call them DATA companies are still protected monopolies most areas. If they got rid of the monopoly, then *perhaps* there would be some competition, especially "last mile". I mean really, home many cable television companies got their monopoly status back in the 70's? Their cables aren't paid for yet? How long are they going to be able to milk that excuse cash cow? And the local telcos? How long are they going to be paying for the same copper they ran back in 1948? Wazzup with that noise?
There needs to be an easier way to get fat pipes to people's homes and turn the internet "on" more, just like the interstate highway system finally made it feasible to drive cross country at a decent average speed and on decent roads, so do we need some better amount of bandwith AND people should not be restricted from hosting at home, that's just ridiculous. p2p and hosting restrictions is like the us post office or fed ex saying only packages in, no packages or letters out. That's nuts, so are these restrictions. But we won't KNOW until there's honesty in accounting back in US business, I go from a default position now they are all liars, cook the books, skim money and cry poverty. I am sorry to have that opinion, but recent revelations with big US corporate "ethics" and honesty leave a lot to be desired.
There's no way to discuss this rationally without VERIFIABLE numbers to use -bandwith/cost/middleman-whatever, all that we have to look at is vaporware accounting numbers. The ONLY verifiable number we have to look at is the end run highest retail price the individual pays, after that it gets into accounting voodoo.
--I know my old 69 bus ( 88's,.010, 6-pass, weber 2#, H-60's on the rear)used to float just swell from driving through flooded streets.. ahem... I wonder how hard it would be to really make one long term waterproof, weld the doors shut or make a superior locking system with rubber seals perhaps, then come up with some sort of carb snorkel and raised exhaust for it and also a power takeoff? heh heh, a bolt on paddle wheel deal for the real wheels, and bolt on rudders for the front would be the easiest, but PTO would be ideal, flip a lever somehow. Enter and leave through a hatch on the roof. You could have "normal" settings for daily driving for the doors, then "locked down water tight" once you got to the water, perhaps as simple as snugging some wingnuts maybe. dunno, doesn't seem that hard thinking about it.
Bug sized though, it just doesn't seem to be that much of an engineering leap to make a floatable bolt on body, that's the first major hurdle.
The american made ROKON do-anything "utility" motorcycle floats and is 100% watertight and will function/run in water as long as the carb gets air, so there's another option, perhaps a small trailerable set of pontoons for it to keep it upright in deep water and stable and useable. They already have a ton of bolt on farming options for them and other assorted doo dads. I saw one running once at a demo, a truly awesome point A to B machine for relatively cheap brand new bucks. I think it's under 5 grand for the full stomped chomped and romped version.
volkswagen had a functional device like this in WW2, called the schimmenwagen -excuse spelling, that is probably close. It was a variant on their kubbelwagen, sold in the US as "the thing", but had a rounded floatation body and I think a power take off prop that lowered into the water in the rear. I've seen pics of them, they look rather normal in a dune buggy sort of way, and would probably sell if someone made them or a mod for existing beetles. I know I would like one, being a jeep driver, the ability to just keep trucking in deep water has a certain appeal to me, calm water anyway. My experience with modded bugs (bajas) is such that they can already go around 90% of the places (something like that) that a normal stock CJ can go, and if they were amphibious, slick! I'd love to be able to drive to the lake here and just keep going, go fishing and diving, etc, without towing a boat or hauling a canoe. If VW was to bring them back, and use their superior diesel tech, even better, as long as the cost was not too outrageous. Don't really care about the ability to go 200 land or 50 water, normal highway speeds are adequate, and ten in the water is adequate.
--we are designed to be the free-est and most unique political system ever invented. The founders had a vision, that if it had been followed, 9-11 wouldn't have occurred. We have born with rights, not government granted priveleges. The first one is freedom of speech, the second is the right to keep and bear arms. I am using my first now to speak on the second, the 'guarantee", the "insurance" of our other born with rights.
These-the first ten known collectively as the 'bill of rights"- aren't "amendments" per se as amendments past #10 are, no, they are SUPPOSED to be inviolate, there are merely listed for clarification purposes, they may not be changed or altered, no code, law, piece of paper, published utterance, no government, plutocrat, politician, officer, bureaucrat,judge, cop, goon or any other assorted denizen of meddling are supposed to restrict, deny, "permit", regulate or otherwise offend these enumerated 10 BORN WITH NOT GOVERNMENT GRANTED RIGHTS.
It is NOT called "the bill of permissions that we can regulate on a political whim".
Webster is on record stzting that he wrote his first dictionary precisely for the fact of having an accurate record of word definitions so the original content would never be misconstrued.
The so called "government" with their "codes" uses a language outlined in a set of missives known as "black's law" dictionary. It is NOT the same. It exists, this is true, but it is in no way lawful or legitimate.
9-11 happened PRECISELY from government interference (if not collusion in exalted places) in the soverign citizens' enjoyment of said rights. It is THEIR FAULT that the pasengers and crew on those planes had no practical effective means of self defense to protect them from those criminals.
It is that simple.
The head of the NSA (and every single other governmental employee from the newest hired-on to the head of the executive branch) understands this or he does not. If he doesn't understand it, he's too incompetent for the job. If he understands it and doesn't support it by word and deed, he's a traitor, again, not fit for the job.
It is that simple. There's no wiggle room. The second you as a free soverign are demanded of a "permit", which is a "permission" to enjoy your born with rights, or you are outright denied one of your born with rights, it's an example of a fascist command ordered you by a fascist who is also a traitor, who's only claim to legitimacy is the threat or use of violent and coercive force.
It is that simple. If the illegitmate criminal junta that passes as "government" would follow our actual laws, we'd have a lot less problems. 9-11 would have been mostly a non event.
As to effectivness here's a short list of what might work and what probably won't, effective to useless(IMO):
personally handing over cash and/or showing them pictures of them in bed with three midgets, two underage kids, a great dane and a defrocked nun. Both is best. You'll get what you want.
normal hard money campaign contribution
soft money campaign contribution
well written short to the point snail mail letter, 1 page tops
fax
telephone call
do nothing, watch sports, wrestling or sitcoms on tv
spend all your time downloading mp3's and mooovees
take part in protests carrying signs and whatnot
e-mail
asking for the constitution back
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--I did that, as well. I lobbied against this madness. The federal government has usurped states rights, there's the obvious and on going carrot and the stick they use. Steal money and power at gunpoint, dole it back 50 cents on the dollar or less. That's the main problem.
As to the source code, again, another valid point, that's why I much prefer paper ballots.
One time in a much larger precinct where I used to live I got to be first in line in the morning, I was therefore the automatic ballot box inspector. You open the box, look in, verify it is EMPTY and untampered with. This is not possible now with the computerized voting, is it?
The Republic has been spiralling down, this is the last step of the rubber stamped and most likely hacked elections and is IT. We now live in a technofuedal society. It is neither a lawful representative republic nor even a 'democracy" as most people call it in slang fashion. It's a two class society of masters and serfs, the masters are finalizing their control via use of their badged and beribboned mercenaries and their co-opted bureaucrats.
The sheeps will pick up on it gradually as more "courtesy checkpoints" appear, when they are required to produce their internal passport, when they are required to be injected first with chemicals then active biologicals then microchips. It's coming. You are going to see a complete merge of "civilian" law enforcement and the military. You are going to see foreign mercenaries called "nato" troops used in domestic "law enforcement". You are going to see all the trappings of a nation like china, their poster boy model society the globalists want to emulate around the planet. You are going to see more and more the utter destruction of the private sector middle class as the US is "second worlded" with insane immigration policies and using tax breaks to encourage outsourcing of industry after industry. This bogus voting with computer will help make it happen, IMO.
I hold the criminal D and R's in the leadership levels along with traitorus international businessmen who fund them completely responsible for this fascism. Some are in on it, the rest are clueless and support via inertia and generation's long brainwashing.
Involved subject but those are my feelings based on a long period of time watching politics and social changes. In short, we've been hijacked, the stealth coup was successful. It's in the mopping up phase now.
I like technology,and so does bigbrother LOVE technology. Police startes need all the technology they can get, for population COMMAND and CONTROL. It's not waiting for it to happen, it's HERE now. Most people are looking to see when "martial law" is declared, when for all practical purposes it was many years ago now by the results we are seeing. It's this slow chipping away process the wags like to call the "boiling frog" principle, it works all too well it appears. there doesn't appear to be the number of frogs who can detect heat differences. Hopefully that might change soon, I don't know, this election proved to me that over 99.99% of the people honestly don't care, they'll just suck it up.
Aw shoot, I've forgotten now, was it animal house the movie? WHACK -thankyousir may I have another? WHACK thankyousir may I have another?
That's what's going on, IMO. You have to be pretty brainwashed to put up with that.
--instead of asking here per se, a better bet is to seek out your local home schooling organization and get some recommendations from "been there, done that, this is good and this isn't, etc" folks as you'll not only get the actual info, but it will come with the hoops that are needed to jump through that are specific to your location. These are a big variable it appears, state by state.
With that said the "no social life" bugaboo is a red herring that detractors use. Any kid can have a social life. I know families with public only educated, private bricks and mortar only educated, and home schooled. On a scale of adjusted-normal to weird I'd give the nod to the public school kids as being more or less less educated, less informed, and their only acceptable normal behavior seems to revolve around wearing the same clothes in a trendy manner. They learn to clique up. The public schools have changed a lot, they are more social engineering propoganda brainwashing centers then houses of education it seems. They learn to conform and be politically correct and to not "think", only parrot approved dogma.
Yes, I know this is a generalization, this is a general topic, obvviously exceptions exist in both spheres.
Good luck on your quest for real education. And google will find you course outlines if that's all you want. I've forgotten the name but I know there are complete k to 12 outlines available on CD's for reasonable, but I honestly have forgotten the name of them right now.
--in a way I agree with you, but let's take it back further. anti trust laws are a predictable extension following the even more immoral stance of legislating into reality the natural personhood of an artificial construct, said "corporations". "Corporations" are virtual constructs, the actual stuff done is done by named human beings. That's where the problem is, business OWNERS, real carbon based life forms, have "rights", corporations as such do not have rights except as they have been codified into the abortion the UCC is, and as such should be scrapped to zero. Originally they were NOT supposed to be either permanent nor given "human" status, like they do now. When that happened, the eventual monopolies with no or l;ittle risk to the humans behind them came about. Unfortunately, they use this cowardly method of doing business, ie, they hide behind the front of the person known as a corporation and cut their personal risk as they can blame whatever they want to on the 'corporation" diod such and such when in reality it is named humans making decisions and doing things in meatworld.
I'd be totally in agreement with you the exact second the laws were changed that no "corporation" had lawful status-level as a natural person like they do now. Until then, the next best method is to follow the charade and treat corporations as what they claim to be, natural persons, and put restrictions on them same as anyone else. I think it's a premier sucky way to do it, but it's what we have now.
I've never been in favor of actually taking "microsoft" to court, I always wanted to see named human beings taken to court for fraud and extortion. I actually could care less about microsoft inc. I am completely in favor of scrapping the current codes as relating to corporations and go back to the original plan, were "rights" only existed for indivdual human beings. man made copnstructs like assemblages of soverign states into a nation, states themselves, and private corporations should have no "rights", they should only have agreed to and strictly limited priveleges based completely on the code of conduct outlined in whatever a soverign individuals rights are, and nothing more. What we have now is 180 degrees from that, that's why there are so many p[roblems, accountability is out the window, it's almost impossible to hold the actions of human beings TO human beings when they are allowed to claim this faceless artificial construct called the corporation did such and such but they had no part in it.
It is obviously slightly more complex than this, but I've tried to explain it adequately. I would suggest if you are honestly interested in learning more, for you to research the history of corporations and what actual lawful "names" and what their "lawful" status is when you register a corporation. Now that's what's obscenely bogus. Get rid of that and we can go back to lawful and ethical business.
--hay bales would work as an emergency last ditch bumper, just get fresh ones every time, the older ones will absorb water and freeze solid maybe.
--when I was a kid seems like the sears wishbook had a sled that had dual handbrakes, both down was a sorta stop, or you used one or the other to steer with. They just looked like pivotable pieces of steel that dug in to the ground some, you hauled back, they swiveled down and dug in, left and right. I never had one though, we usually used picker bushes as brakes rather than the trees, lesser of two painful e-viles.
How about this, carefully measure it out, do one of those bridge jumpers bungee cords, so as you get near the bottom it takes up the slack and snatches ya back up hill some? That actually sounds like fun! Hey, I think this is a cool idea really!
--no, I don't, but I think in this day and age and with this creeping fascism we are seeing that the potential for elaborate and extensive vote rigging is such that this particular source code SHOULD be open source, or better yet, just scrap it. Nations large and small around the world use paper ballots, they work, take no skills to count in a dispute, the local people involved can do it easily. yes I know there is abuse and fraud in the past. deal is now, they are 1/2 way to the entire nation being susceptible to easy abuse, and no one would know. No one but the abusers. This is a BIG DEAL to me. I like computers, but not at the polls, no thankew.
Our voting system here was not broken, it didn't need fixing. Punch outs with hanging chads we didn't have, before we had fill in the circle with a pencil paper ballots, they always worked. This new computer system, you, me, no one else outside the "company", and certainly not the poll officials onsite have ANY IDEA whatsoever if this software came pre trojaned or rigged, what the real count is, nothing. It's trust with NO VERIFY. they suckered this in with "look how convenient this is!". Well, ya, next step in "convenience"is just to skip any voting at all, just rubber stamp in the latest premier. No thanks, I smell a rat. There's zero way to KNOW what the count is besides what the government and a private corporation says it is. NONE.
Don't know about you but the preceding two entities I don't trust with the nations vote, not without local human eyeballs oversite.
You tell me, mega coincidence or not, georgia first state in the nation full computerised voting, gee whizz, first time they use the system in a big way, an almost total repub sweep in a mostly dem voting state, first time since reconstruction days. All kinza guys that looked like normal shoo ins seem to lose. Now ain't that speeshul... just another one of them coinkydinks like anytime there's a political angle plane crash the "blackboxes"don't seem to work, like senator wellstone's plane.
Uh huh, yep, sure, oh ya-a-a-a-a that's what really happened.
I'm not a D nor an R, so I got no dog in that fight, but the aberration is just too cute for me. IMO, open source or no computerised voting, I'm one guy, that's my opinion, I used it and protested at my official polling site, the proper venue for me to do so. I called 'em on it, this vote is not secure, it's my civic duty to point it out, it's really that simple. The governance of my state and the nation is more important than some ten buck thing I buy, and my vote is worth it to me.
--I buy used at yard sales and thriftstores, I'll go a buck a disk, 2$ tops if it's something I really like, cassettes I'll go 50cent, and I let God and random chance pick the menus for me. If I run out of music, oh well, not gonna sweat it. I mostly do talk radio anyway.
The best deal for these big record companies is to make burn your own at the retail stores, you get a blank, pay by the song, mix and match, they'll make money all day long and no one will be whizzed, and the quality can be the best if they set up the kiosks correctly, and they could charge 5$ a diskfull and sell them morning noon and night.
If they fail to address the ridiculous cost they charge for ten songs on a 650 meg cd they just will continue to lose sales. 15 to 20 bucks for ten songs only 2 of which you want to hear is what causes downloading and copying for the most part, it's the audio equivalent of owning a v-8 with gas at 100$ a gallon, not a lot of driving would go on.
--I'll have to google for it but thanks for telling me they exist already. 100 clams is steep for a keyboard but it's worth a look to at least find the name of the thing, then maybe ebay for one.
--I hadn't thought of the small christmas lights but that might work. Right now I have a 12 volt fluorescent over the keyboard (we cruise on solar, every watt counts) and ideally I'd like led's but the christmas lights might throw enough light without being annoying. thanks.
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--that's basically what I asked for, the paper receipt of my vote, then the operating system source code. I was trying to get the official poll officer to understand that now there is zero way to do a recount that is verifiable, she kept insiting it was an accurate count guaranteed and all they had to do was run the machine again to get the couint. We went round and round on this for at least 15 minutes until I became convinced she had zero idea of what I was talking about even though she "knew all about computers uses them everyday". I said "we used to have paper ballots thatcould be counted by anyone", she replies "but we had a machine read them before", I say "yes, but in a dispute human beings could count the ballots easily", she said "it doesn't matter this new computer doesn't make any mistakes because theysayso" and etc, etc, and back and forth, MAN it was frustrating.
Hopefully as suggested they'll be some big lawsuit someplace with a disputed count and this whole no verification machine voting scam gets thrown out as a really bad idea. It's really a power grabbing major scam, I honestly believe this now.
But, I also think this is the long range "plan" to just completely have the ability to big brother rig elections, and this closed source computer nonsense makes it ridiculously easy to pull off for any domestic faction high level political badguys who are already "in control" of the exsisiting balloting process and want "total" control.
I also think that voter news service alleged computer exit polling "glitches" are a total lie, I bet they showed a number of cases across the nation where exit polls were so completely and obvious and overwhelmingly different from the "official" ballot counting that they quick pulled the plug on it to help coverup the rigging efforts. Basically a poll consists of binary yes and no answers when the poll is how you voted, it just ain't that hard a process to do. didja vote for dude A or B? Didjaa vote yes or no on referendum A or B? then it's just tallying those numbers and comparing them to a 100% total, that's it, you get the odds. And they are telling us it was "inaccurate". Triple phooie, they are forked tongued on this most likely. You could do this with a 10 buck calculator and analog phone lines. they've been doing exit polling forever, it ain't rocket science nor does it even remotely require massive computing power to get close enough to reality to be newsworthy. Somehow, this election has been massively rigged across the nation. Now this is a guess on my part, I have no proof per se and am speculating now, but I bet it's an accurate guess.
--thanks, figured it was a too good to be true deal. I've been looking for some sort of less expensive wireless option than satellite ISP. We are thinking about moving further out the boonies and I am concerned about any net connection at all, let alone a "broadband" thing. I could get by only surfing at night with the unlimited nights and weekends but a 20 meg cap with the 40 buck plan is sorta silly-I listen to net radio, that would wipe it out pretty quick- and the 100$ month unlimited is right up there with the satellites. I don't upload much or play online games so satellite latency isn't really an issue with me. I don't need to surf on the phone, just use it as a wireless modem to either my laptop or somehow my desktop. I know this is possible, I just don't want any gotchas, I know when I was talking to a verizon rep(our current cell provider) about internet connectivity it was confusing as the salesgirl described the USB cable as "the small square cable thing" so I was hesitant to believe they were truly offering, or it was capable of, if your isp supported it magically, unlimited net access at night,or should I say that you could use it as such with a different isp than their's, even though she insisted that was correct orally. Fine print on those contracts are always head scratchers.
--sorta confused here. Hmm common occurence. Anyway, at the top of the pricing I see the 300 anytime minutes deal unlimited nights and weekends, etc, but when you scroll to the bottom of the page it says 20 megs of data. Now what's the difference here? Is this one of those gotchas, you could accidentaly rack up thousands of dollars of charges surfing and not even realise it? And what about using their pcmcia card and the USB cable to connect to your already existing local dialup ISP? Would that work? Recently got a lowball kyocera that has this connectivity potential allegedly-saw the card and cable on the rack there but didn't buy it- and was wondering if it was worth it to get their card and cable and skip their network and just try my existing ISP, but this pricing deal has me worried.
--the only decent reason I have read here on slashdot(that I recall readily) is so far no multi processor support, that the medium and larger servers need. It seems to have a decent following on single chipped machines though.
I haven't tried it yet, been working my way through various flavors of this or that until I decide on a favorite. But I like the philosophy of turned off until you turn it on, that open bsd espouses.
--thanks woulda missed this story. neat pic. Sorta going hmmm over their allusion to it's size "same size as the one killed off the dinosaurs". In astrotech speek I guess this means "a whopper". The mother of all kabooms if one hit. Wonder what the energy level would be mesured as? what size earthquakes would it make, or tsunamis or whatever? The math is beyond me I'll admit, some place between gee whizz and aww %^&*t.
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--my criteria preferences are content and useability. Obviously I want the content I am seeking, but I dislike sites that use active scripting for links. C'mon, is this really necessary? Sucks. I cruise with javascript and images (most of the time) off for instance, I detest having to go turn it on and reload the page just to go to the next link, or freeking image buttons with no alt text so you can't see what they are supposed to link to. That's just freaking lazy on the webperson's fault. Pure lazy.
Besides that I don't mind ads at all, sometimes there's something I want to look at in an ad, I'll go there. I have animations set to run once, so that fixes that. If flash won't let me proceed, too bad, I trash the site, their loss. Rest of the time if it's something I'm not interested in I ignore it, same as television, it's never bothered me. Frankly, I appreciate the advertisers helping to pay for content. that's how it works, well, until the ISP's stop ridiculous restrictions on private hosting, and until it's as easy as installing one program to bypass using an isp at all and just lease the wire for joe user. It sure would be bogus to have to actively pay for every web page and log in with another cookie and etc, there's enough of that already. The only other thing that is mildly annoying are websites that assume everyone makes 100 grand a year and lives in some urban nirvanaland and is on a broadband connection with a multi gighz processor machine and some near-wallsized monitor, now THAT is annoying on an older slower computer. I know that a several year old computer is considered ancient now, but uhh, why is that again? what for? A website that's bloat-coded for just new and fast is the same as telling me I can't use the road unless I own a brand new ferrari, that elitist crap can go blow too. Screw that site. And the browser/os specific pages, puhleeze, go away, just say no to internet monopolies.
I guess that'senough of a rant, what I LIKE is decent modest sized pages, not too many graphics per page, no automagical plugins, I want to CHOOSE via clicking if I want some doo dad to run, and I want "truth in linkvertising", I want a link to take me to what is really claimed to be there,no more and no less, not a tease, popup, pop under, or other nonsense of that type. In other words, don't choose for me, let ME choose please.
--this will sure knock the world wide web on it's assets:
Specifically, the amendment bans "any written material, any image or any other representation of ideas or theories, which advocates, promotes or incites hatred, discrimination or violence, against any individual or group of individuals, based on race, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin, as well as religion if used as pretext for any of these factors."
--I can think of several large US sites off the top of my head that advocate genocide against muslims on a daily basis, just for one of many examples. There's lots more, just those stand out from their knee-jerk vileness. I got no use for the opposite either,insane ranting mad jihaders can byte my shorts. I don't like either of them, but they can have "their say", I say. That's their privelege and right far as I am concerned, I believe in "born with" rights for every human being, no matter what country they are in, and freedom of speech is a big one of those rights.
I promise to keep railing against the UN, globalism and goons in general, with am emphasis on US goons, as I live here. I don't know if they-the EU- class that as "hate speech" or not, I don't discriminate based on religion,color or whatnot. If you are a totalitarian goose stepping goon, whether you wear robes or a western suit or some "uniform" or jeans and sneakers, well, you can officially "get stuffed". You suck, bigtime. "You" is anyone who fits that description
--wonder how they will block sites, the europeans? Will this lead to at least three big nets now, the basic world wide net, an europaen-union net and the fascist goon mainland chinese net? What are they gonna do, cut the cables under the ocean?
No idea really, pretty weird concept, but governments mostly exist to perpetuate their own bureaucracy and their cash benefactors and patrons, so I guess they will keep restricitng it as far as they can with advanced tech. Big shame so many geeks will work for them and take the blood money.
..write a script to gently but firmly ask politiely that your visitors arriving using IE would have a better and more secure "total internet surfing experience" if they "upgraded their browsers" to "a better one" then provide some links to them.
Like, why keep taking it and taking it and taking it and taking it? Don't insult them, just show them a different thing that's "better" for them. Most people just slap don't know, the "internet"is "windows and explorer" because it came with their new conpooter and "microsoft" somehow "owns" the internet. We have to do everything we can to get this brainwashing reversed..
--don't know about anyone else, but I'd swap plugins for microsoft getting their butt kicked and told to un-bundle explorer. How many articles about pages not working except under explorer? And if they aren't stopped, palladium in the hardware, and who knows what other internet hijacking schemes they got cooking. I want the INTERNET not microsoftnet. Trading off plugins is a small price to pay and if these guys are taking the high ground over money, more power to them! And technically they could allow anyone else to use plugins, they could selectively just disallow microsoft and microsoft would just have to eat it , and wouldn't that be special! The 800 lb swaggering bully gorilla forced to go sit in the corner! cool! They do that, my cash donation to them is in the mail the next day.
--I am betting this is like cal energy crisis. artificially high prices brought about by artifically manipulated supply "numbers". Now I honestly don't know if the middleman bandwith "traders" exist or not like the "spot market" for the middleman profit leeches do with electricity and natural gas, but I am more than suspicious of this bandwith crunch and cost. Ya it's expensive, here's the solution, the cable/phone/whatever call them DATA companies are still protected monopolies most areas. If they got rid of the monopoly, then *perhaps* there would be some competition, especially "last mile". I mean really, home many cable television companies got their monopoly status back in the 70's? Their cables aren't paid for yet? How long are they going to be able to milk that excuse cash cow? And the local telcos? How long are they going to be paying for the same copper they ran back in 1948? Wazzup with that noise?
There needs to be an easier way to get fat pipes to people's homes and turn the internet "on" more, just like the interstate highway system finally made it feasible to drive cross country at a decent average speed and on decent roads, so do we need some better amount of bandwith AND people should not be restricted from hosting at home, that's just ridiculous. p2p and hosting restrictions is like the us post office or fed ex saying only packages in, no packages or letters out. That's nuts, so are these restrictions. But we won't KNOW until there's honesty in accounting back in US business, I go from a default position now they are all liars, cook the books, skim money and cry poverty. I am sorry to have that opinion, but recent revelations with big US corporate "ethics" and honesty leave a lot to be desired.
There's no way to discuss this rationally without VERIFIABLE numbers to use -bandwith/cost/middleman-whatever, all that we have to look at is vaporware accounting numbers. The ONLY verifiable number we have to look at is the end run highest retail price the individual pays, after that it gets into accounting voodoo.
--dude! good for ya'all with the new packages! hey, you almost in my 'hood, back down the mountain from ya...
--I checked your job listings already....rats....
--hummer is cool, let em keep guessing though
"Introducing.... the HUMMER BROWSER--go ANYPLACE on the olde intarweb, and have LOTSA FUN while ya do it"
--I know my old 69 bus ( 88's, .010, 6-pass, weber 2#, H-60's on the rear)used to float just swell from driving through flooded streets.. ahem... I wonder how hard it would be to really make one long term waterproof, weld the doors shut or make a superior locking system with rubber seals perhaps, then come up with some sort of carb snorkel and raised exhaust for it and also a power takeoff? heh heh, a bolt on paddle wheel deal for the real wheels, and bolt on rudders for the front would be the easiest, but PTO would be ideal, flip a lever somehow. Enter and leave through a hatch on the roof. You could have "normal" settings for daily driving for the doors, then "locked down water tight" once you got to the water, perhaps as simple as snugging some wingnuts maybe. dunno, doesn't seem that hard thinking about it.
Bug sized though, it just doesn't seem to be that much of an engineering leap to make a floatable bolt on body, that's the first major hurdle.
The american made ROKON do-anything "utility" motorcycle floats and is 100% watertight and will function/run in water as long as the carb gets air, so there's another option, perhaps a small trailerable set of pontoons for it to keep it upright in deep water and stable and useable. They already have a ton of bolt on farming options for them and other assorted doo dads. I saw one running once at a demo, a truly awesome point A to B machine for relatively cheap brand new bucks. I think it's under 5 grand for the full stomped chomped and romped version.
volkswagen had a functional device like this in WW2, called the schimmenwagen -excuse spelling, that is probably close. It was a variant on their kubbelwagen, sold in the US as "the thing", but had a rounded floatation body and I think a power take off prop that lowered into the water in the rear. I've seen pics of them, they look rather normal in a dune buggy sort of way, and would probably sell if someone made them or a mod for existing beetles. I know I would like one, being a jeep driver, the ability to just keep trucking in deep water has a certain appeal to me, calm water anyway. My experience with modded bugs (bajas) is such that they can already go around 90% of the places (something like that) that a normal stock CJ can go, and if they were amphibious, slick! I'd love to be able to drive to the lake here and just keep going, go fishing and diving, etc, without towing a boat or hauling a canoe. If VW was to bring them back, and use their superior diesel tech, even better, as long as the cost was not too outrageous. Don't really care about the ability to go 200 land or 50 water, normal highway speeds are adequate, and ten in the water is adequate.
browzilla
...no, wait....
surfnix
fred's browser
YABWWAHTOF --yet another browser when we already have tons of them
northgone--no really,this'll help obfuscate netscape evidence
XbrowzX --why, it's da rulez you need an x in there someplace, just because
interbrowznavplorerzilla
We*B*browzin
yomomsendmoney.browz
coca ~ cola
they can use my name, call it browzogger, I don'tcare
OK, these are from my friend plantlady on irc
speedzone
pumper
gadabout
hopper
These-the first ten known collectively as the 'bill of rights"- aren't "amendments" per se as amendments past #10 are, no, they are SUPPOSED to be inviolate, there are merely listed for clarification purposes, they may not be changed or altered, no code, law, piece of paper, published utterance, no government, plutocrat, politician, officer, bureaucrat,judge, cop, goon or any other assorted denizen of meddling are supposed to restrict, deny, "permit", regulate or otherwise offend these enumerated 10 BORN WITH NOT GOVERNMENT GRANTED RIGHTS.
It is NOT called "the bill of permissions that we can regulate on a political whim".
Webster is on record stzting that he wrote his first dictionary precisely for the fact of having an accurate record of word definitions so the original content would never be misconstrued.
The so called "government" with their "codes" uses a language outlined in a set of missives known as "black's law" dictionary. It is NOT the same. It exists, this is true, but it is in no way lawful or legitimate.
9-11 happened PRECISELY from government interference (if not collusion in exalted places) in the soverign citizens' enjoyment of said rights. It is THEIR FAULT that the pasengers and crew on those planes had no practical effective means of self defense to protect them from those criminals.
It is that simple.
The head of the NSA (and every single other governmental employee from the newest hired-on to the head of the executive branch) understands this or he does not. If he doesn't understand it, he's too incompetent for the job. If he understands it and doesn't support it by word and deed, he's a traitor, again, not fit for the job.
It is that simple. There's no wiggle room. The second you as a free soverign are demanded of a "permit", which is a "permission" to enjoy your born with rights, or you are outright denied one of your born with rights, it's an example of a fascist command ordered you by a fascist who is also a traitor, who's only claim to legitimacy is the threat or use of violent and coercive force.
It is that simple. If the illegitmate criminal junta that passes as "government" would follow our actual laws, we'd have a lot less problems. 9-11 would have been mostly a non event.
personally handing over cash and/or showing them pictures of them in bed with three midgets, two underage kids, a great dane and a defrocked nun. Both is best. You'll get what you want.
normal hard money campaign contribution
soft money campaign contribution
well written short to the point snail mail letter, 1 page tops
fax
telephone call
do nothing, watch sports, wrestling or sitcoms on tv
spend all your time downloading mp3's and mooovees
take part in protests carrying signs and whatnot
e-mail
--I did that, as well. I lobbied against this madness. The federal government has usurped states rights, there's the obvious and on going carrot and the stick they use. Steal money and power at gunpoint, dole it back 50 cents on the dollar or less. That's the main problem.
As to the source code, again, another valid point, that's why I much prefer paper ballots.
One time in a much larger precinct where I used to live I got to be first in line in the morning, I was therefore the automatic ballot box inspector. You open the box, look in, verify it is EMPTY and untampered with. This is not possible now with the computerized voting, is it?
The Republic has been spiralling down, this is the last step of the rubber stamped and most likely hacked elections and is IT. We now live in a technofuedal society. It is neither a lawful representative republic nor even a 'democracy" as most people call it in slang fashion. It's a two class society of masters and serfs, the masters are finalizing their control via use of their badged and beribboned mercenaries and their co-opted bureaucrats.
The sheeps will pick up on it gradually as more "courtesy checkpoints" appear, when they are required to produce their internal passport, when they are required to be injected first with chemicals then active biologicals then microchips. It's coming. You are going to see a complete merge of "civilian" law enforcement and the military. You are going to see foreign mercenaries called "nato" troops used in domestic "law enforcement". You are going to see all the trappings of a nation like china, their poster boy model society the globalists want to emulate around the planet. You are going to see more and more the utter destruction of the private sector middle class as the US is "second worlded" with insane immigration policies and using tax breaks to encourage outsourcing of industry after industry. This bogus voting with computer will help make it happen, IMO.
I hold the criminal D and R's in the leadership levels along with traitorus international businessmen who fund them completely responsible for this fascism. Some are in on it, the rest are clueless and support via inertia and generation's long brainwashing.
Involved subject but those are my feelings based on a long period of time watching politics and social changes. In short, we've been hijacked, the stealth coup was successful. It's in the mopping up phase now.
I like technology,and so does bigbrother LOVE technology. Police startes need all the technology they can get, for population COMMAND and CONTROL. It's not waiting for it to happen, it's HERE now. Most people are looking to see when "martial law" is declared, when for all practical purposes it was many years ago now by the results we are seeing. It's this slow chipping away process the wags like to call the "boiling frog" principle, it works all too well it appears. there doesn't appear to be the number of frogs who can detect heat differences. Hopefully that might change soon, I don't know, this election proved to me that over 99.99% of the people honestly don't care, they'll just suck it up.
Aw shoot, I've forgotten now, was it animal house the movie? WHACK -thankyousir may I have another? WHACK thankyousir may I have another?
That's what's going on, IMO. You have to be pretty brainwashed to put up with that.
--instead of asking here per se, a better bet is to seek out your local home schooling organization and get some recommendations from "been there, done that, this is good and this isn't, etc" folks as you'll not only get the actual info, but it will come with the hoops that are needed to jump through that are specific to your location. These are a big variable it appears, state by state.
With that said the "no social life" bugaboo is a red herring that detractors use. Any kid can have a social life. I know families with public only educated, private bricks and mortar only educated, and home schooled. On a scale of adjusted-normal to weird I'd give the nod to the public school kids as being more or less less educated, less informed, and their only acceptable normal behavior seems to revolve around wearing the same clothes in a trendy manner. They learn to clique up. The public schools have changed a lot, they are more social engineering propoganda brainwashing centers then houses of education it seems. They learn to conform and be politically correct and to not "think", only parrot approved dogma.
Yes, I know this is a generalization, this is a general topic, obvviously exceptions exist in both spheres.
Good luck on your quest for real education. And google will find you course outlines if that's all you want. I've forgotten the name but I know there are complete k to 12 outlines available on CD's for reasonable, but I honestly have forgotten the name of them right now.
--in a way I agree with you, but let's take it back further. anti trust laws are a predictable extension following the even more immoral stance of legislating into reality the natural personhood of an artificial construct, said "corporations". "Corporations" are virtual constructs, the actual stuff done is done by named human beings. That's where the problem is, business OWNERS, real carbon based life forms, have "rights", corporations as such do not have rights except as they have been codified into the abortion the UCC is, and as such should be scrapped to zero. Originally they were NOT supposed to be either permanent nor given "human" status, like they do now. When that happened, the eventual monopolies with no or l;ittle risk to the humans behind them came about. Unfortunately, they use this cowardly method of doing business, ie, they hide behind the front of the person known as a corporation and cut their personal risk as they can blame whatever they want to on the 'corporation" diod such and such when in reality it is named humans making decisions and doing things in meatworld.
I'd be totally in agreement with you the exact second the laws were changed that no "corporation" had lawful status-level as a natural person like they do now. Until then, the next best method is to follow the charade and treat corporations as what they claim to be, natural persons, and put restrictions on them same as anyone else. I think it's a premier sucky way to do it, but it's what we have now.
I've never been in favor of actually taking "microsoft" to court, I always wanted to see named human beings taken to court for fraud and extortion. I actually could care less about microsoft inc. I am completely in favor of scrapping the current codes as relating to corporations and go back to the original plan, were "rights" only existed for indivdual human beings. man made copnstructs like assemblages of soverign states into a nation, states themselves, and private corporations should have no "rights", they should only have agreed to and strictly limited priveleges based completely on the code of conduct outlined in whatever a soverign individuals rights are, and nothing more. What we have now is 180 degrees from that, that's why there are so many p[roblems, accountability is out the window, it's almost impossible to hold the actions of human beings TO human beings when they are allowed to claim this faceless artificial construct called the corporation did such and such but they had no part in it.
It is obviously slightly more complex than this, but I've tried to explain it adequately. I would suggest if you are honestly interested in learning more, for you to research the history of corporations and what actual lawful "names" and what their "lawful" status is when you register a corporation. Now that's what's obscenely bogus. Get rid of that and we can go back to lawful and ethical business.
--hay bales would work as an emergency last ditch bumper, just get fresh ones every time, the older ones will absorb water and freeze solid maybe.
--when I was a kid seems like the sears wishbook had a sled that had dual handbrakes, both down was a sorta stop, or you used one or the other to steer with. They just looked like pivotable pieces of steel that dug in to the ground some, you hauled back, they swiveled down and dug in, left and right. I never had one though, we usually used picker bushes as brakes rather than the trees, lesser of two painful e-viles.
How about this, carefully measure it out, do one of those bridge jumpers bungee cords, so as you get near the bottom it takes up the slack and snatches ya back up hill some? That actually sounds like fun! Hey, I think this is a cool idea really!
--no, I don't, but I think in this day and age and with this creeping fascism we are seeing that the potential for elaborate and extensive vote rigging is such that this particular source code SHOULD be open source, or better yet, just scrap it. Nations large and small around the world use paper ballots, they work, take no skills to count in a dispute, the local people involved can do it easily. yes I know there is abuse and fraud in the past. deal is now, they are 1/2 way to the entire nation being susceptible to easy abuse, and no one would know. No one but the abusers. This is a BIG DEAL to me. I like computers, but not at the polls, no thankew.
Our voting system here was not broken, it didn't need fixing. Punch outs with hanging chads we didn't have, before we had fill in the circle with a pencil paper ballots, they always worked. This new computer system, you, me, no one else outside the "company", and certainly not the poll officials onsite have ANY IDEA whatsoever if this software came pre trojaned or rigged, what the real count is, nothing. It's trust with NO VERIFY. they suckered this in with "look how convenient this is!". Well, ya, next step in "convenience"is just to skip any voting at all, just rubber stamp in the latest premier. No thanks, I smell a rat. There's zero way to KNOW what the count is besides what the government and a private corporation says it is. NONE.
Don't know about you but the preceding two entities I don't trust with the nations vote, not without local human eyeballs oversite.
You tell me, mega coincidence or not, georgia first state in the nation full computerised voting, gee whizz, first time they use the system in a big way, an almost total repub sweep in a mostly dem voting state, first time since reconstruction days. All kinza guys that looked like normal shoo ins seem to lose. Now ain't that speeshul... just another one of them coinkydinks like anytime there's a political angle plane crash the "blackboxes"don't seem to work, like senator wellstone's plane.
Uh huh, yep, sure, oh ya-a-a-a-a that's what really happened.
I'm not a D nor an R, so I got no dog in that fight, but the aberration is just too cute for me.
IMO, open source or no computerised voting, I'm one guy, that's my opinion, I used it and protested at my official polling site, the proper venue for me to do so. I called 'em on it, this vote is not secure, it's my civic duty to point it out, it's really that simple. The governance of my state and the nation is more important than some ten buck thing I buy, and my vote is worth it to me.
--I buy used at yard sales and thriftstores, I'll go a buck a disk, 2$ tops if it's something I really like, cassettes I'll go 50cent, and I let God and random chance pick the menus for me. If I run out of music, oh well, not gonna sweat it. I mostly do talk radio anyway.
The best deal for these big record companies is to make burn your own at the retail stores, you get a blank, pay by the song, mix and match, they'll make money all day long and no one will be whizzed, and the quality can be the best if they set up the kiosks correctly, and they could charge 5$ a diskfull and sell them morning noon and night.
If they fail to address the ridiculous cost they charge for ten songs on a 650 meg cd they just will continue to lose sales. 15 to 20 bucks for ten songs only 2 of which you want to hear is what causes downloading and copying for the most part, it's the audio equivalent of owning a v-8 with gas at 100$ a gallon, not a lot of driving would go on.
--I'll have to google for it but thanks for telling me they exist already. 100 clams is steep for a keyboard but it's worth a look to at least find the name of the thing, then maybe ebay for one.
--I hadn't thought of the small christmas lights but that might work. Right now I have a 12 volt fluorescent over the keyboard (we cruise on solar, every watt counts) and ideally I'd like led's but the christmas lights might throw enough light without being annoying. thanks.
--that's basically what I asked for, the paper receipt of my vote, then the operating system source code. I was trying to get the official poll officer to understand that now there is zero way to do a recount that is verifiable, she kept insiting it was an accurate count guaranteed and all they had to do was run the machine again to get the couint. We went round and round on this for at least 15 minutes until I became convinced she had zero idea of what I was talking about even though she "knew all about computers uses them everyday". I said "we used to have paper ballots thatcould be counted by anyone", she replies "but we had a machine read them before", I say "yes, but in a dispute human beings could count the ballots easily", she said "it doesn't matter this new computer doesn't make any mistakes because theysayso" and etc, etc, and back and forth, MAN it was frustrating.
Hopefully as suggested they'll be some big lawsuit someplace with a disputed count and this whole no verification machine voting scam gets thrown out as a really bad idea. It's really a power grabbing major scam, I honestly believe this now.
But, I also think this is the long range "plan" to just completely have the ability to big brother rig elections, and this closed source computer nonsense makes it ridiculously easy to pull off for any domestic faction high level political badguys who are already "in control" of the exsisiting balloting process and want "total" control.
I also think that voter news service alleged computer exit polling "glitches" are a total lie, I bet they showed a number of cases across the nation where exit polls were so completely and obvious and overwhelmingly different from the "official" ballot counting that they quick pulled the plug on it to help coverup the rigging efforts. Basically a poll consists of binary yes and no answers when the poll is how you voted, it just ain't that hard a process to do. didja vote for dude A or B? Didjaa vote yes or no on referendum A or B? then it's just tallying those numbers and comparing them to a 100% total, that's it, you get the odds. And they are telling us it was "inaccurate". Triple phooie, they are forked tongued on this most likely. You could do this with a 10 buck calculator and analog phone lines. they've been doing exit polling forever, it ain't rocket science nor does it even remotely require massive computing power to get close enough to reality to be newsworthy. Somehow, this election has been massively rigged across the nation. Now this is a guess on my part, I have no proof per se and am speculating now, but I bet it's an accurate guess.
The ramifications are obvious.
--thanks, figured it was a too good to be true deal. I've been looking for some sort of less expensive wireless option than satellite ISP. We are thinking about moving further out the boonies and I am concerned about any net connection at all, let alone a "broadband" thing. I could get by only surfing at night with the unlimited nights and weekends but a 20 meg cap with the 40 buck plan is sorta silly-I listen to net radio, that would wipe it out pretty quick- and the 100$ month unlimited is right up there with the satellites. I don't upload much or play online games so satellite latency isn't really an issue with me. I don't need to surf on the phone, just use it as a wireless modem to either my laptop or somehow my desktop. I know this is possible, I just don't want any gotchas, I know when I was talking to a verizon rep(our current cell provider) about internet connectivity it was confusing as the salesgirl described the USB cable as "the small square cable thing" so I was hesitant to believe they were truly offering, or it was capable of, if your isp supported it magically, unlimited net access at night,or should I say that you could use it as such with a different isp than their's, even though she insisted that was correct orally. Fine print on those contracts are always head scratchers.
--sorta confused here. Hmm common occurence. Anyway, at the top of the pricing I see the 300 anytime minutes deal unlimited nights and weekends, etc, but when you scroll to the bottom of the page it says 20 megs of data. Now what's the difference here? Is this one of those gotchas, you could accidentaly rack up thousands of dollars of charges surfing and not even realise it? And what about using their pcmcia card and the USB cable to connect to your already existing local dialup ISP? Would that work? Recently got a lowball kyocera that has this connectivity potential allegedly-saw the card and cable on the rack there but didn't buy it- and was wondering if it was worth it to get their card and cable and skip their network and just try my existing ISP, but this pricing deal has me worried.
thanks for your article, BTW
--the only decent reason I have read here on slashdot(that I recall readily) is so far no multi processor support, that the medium and larger servers need. It seems to have a decent following on single chipped machines though.
I haven't tried it yet, been working my way through various flavors of this or that until I decide on a favorite. But I like the philosophy of turned off until you turn it on, that open bsd espouses.
--thanks woulda missed this story. neat pic. Sorta going hmmm over their allusion to it's size "same size as the one killed off the dinosaurs". In astrotech speek I guess this means "a whopper". The mother of all kabooms if one hit. Wonder what the energy level would be mesured as? what size earthquakes would it make, or tsunamis or whatever? The math is beyond me I'll admit, some place between gee whizz and aww %^&*t.