Every envelope should have a stamped code on the back for every time it passes through a sorter. No database of every item, no database of every scanned address; just a rubber stamp machine.
Sure would like to know if this is the loot raped from Forry Ackerman, as a result of his forced bankruptcy. If so, I couldn't touch the stuff, even if it had Raquel Welch's personal Orgasmatron.
http://members.eisa.net.au/~johben57/fjacker.htm l
Since Washington DC was post-revolutionary, there's nothing from the Revolution to see, but the SAR (Sons of the American Revoution) restorated a revolutionary rabble-rouser's drinking pit, just by Battery Park and not a few blocks from Ground Zero.
Oh, yeah, forgot... you guys don't have guns, to speak of, any more.
We can fix that.
While in Portland, there are at least two places to shoot full auto.. yeah, baby, rock'n'roll. Rent the Tommy gun or assault rifle of your choice, buy the bricks of ammo and have away.
Fairly Honest Don's Machine Gun Parlor 2020 NW Aloclek Dr Suite #110 Hillsboro, OR 97124 Phone: (503) 640 0750 Fax: (503) 648 8376 http://www.fairlyhonestdons.net/index.htm
Then, there's the Public Safety Training Center of Clackamas Community College, just about a mile south of our new Krispy Kreme (oooh, doughnuts) on SE 82nd. http://www.cccpstc.org/map.htm http://www. cccpstc.org/armory.htm http://www.krispykreme.com /
Regrettably, rumpcarrot neglected to mention the Church of Elvis is, sadly, closed.
But, Portland's worth the visit, especially because of easy access by the finest busline in America http://www.greentortoise.com/
Once here, you _can_ visit the Oregon Navy. http://www.omsi.edu/visit/submarine/
Near Portland, there's the Spruce Goose http://www.sprucegoose.org/ and fourty-three other aircraft on display.
While here, you can stretch your budget by staying at the Portland Hostel http://www.portlandhostel.org/
And, on your way North to Vancouver & Victoria, there's the Seattle Music Experience, built by a geek for geeks http://www.emplive.com/ http://www.tripadv isor.com/Attraction_Review-g6087 8-d146840-Reviews-Experience_Music_Project_Museum- Seattle_Washington.html
But, before you leave town, stop off at a McMenamin's for a pint of real beer and what Harlan Ellison called 'the last honest burger in America'. http://mcmenamins.com/
I still have the first (Fuji) bike I ever built, but it's there only for two-stage (bike-bus) travel, because I love my recumbent.
It may be harder to pedal uphill, but the feeling of control which comes from the semi-reclined seating position gives me much more confidence that I won't become street pizza because some damfool in an SUV craters me.
As Neil Stephenson said about urban biking, if you rely on the other guy to avoid you, you're toast (sic). With a 'bent, I have eye contact with drivers, which makes a tremendous difference in maintaing a 'bubble' of protective space around me.
I had never expected to be bike commuting at 50, but the recumbent bike makes that 12-mile commute a joyous sport.
Look at these pix and then tell me which causes less wind resistance and which can be maintained longer with less stress: http://www.hostelshoppe.com/images/tech/d f_vs_vola e.jpg
1) Was the shooter a minor? Sure sounds like it. Minors have no business in an urban environment using weapons unsupervised.
2) If his daddy didn't teach him the manual of arms for the weapon (including the lack of a magazine safety), he should not have been touching it.
3) What was the kid doing with a weapon around a four-year-old?
4) How did the kid get the weapon? Was it in a locked container? If there are minors around, and it was not, then daddy's too dumb to breed, and should have his parenthood license revoked.
5) The "$2 safety feature" will balloon the price of the weapon because of R&D & litigation costs. Some weapons, also, cannot be designed to accomodate such an 'idiot-proofing' device. Besides, there's always a better grade of idiot ready to demonstrate your idiot-proofing device is not ready for prime time.
Conclusion: The primary safety device for any weapon is the grey matter between the user's ears.
Sales tax? The _most_ regressive and _easiest_ to cheat tax? Pfui!
There's no mechanism to collect a sales tax, so the startup costs would consume the first year's collections alone.
Oregon's problem is the discounted corporate income tax... that, and the ridiculous kicker law which should have gone to a Rainy Day Fund.
If corporations are going to have a corporate shield in litigation, they can darn well pay for the privilege, with the same rate I pay my income tax at.
We all sit around the campfires at USENET's comp.dcom.telecom and talk about CLECs (Competitive Local Exchange Carriers, what this fellow is inquiring about) all day, and all of the night.
Pardon me for being clueless, but I don't see in this concept a description of what happens when a posting from a listserv or other e-mail list goes to a new subscriber. Mail bounces back to the listserv, right?
Well, the first e-mail to a news subscriber is often the e-mail required to confirm subscription. No reply, and the subscriber is plonked.
Sounds suboptimal to me.
So, you whitelist the listserv machines... until one of them has to change IP addresses. Whoops! No umpteen bazillions of e-mail messages go no where.
I'm sure that listserv admin would find the idea suboptimal about this time.
Echostar's DISH TV satellite systems have several PVRs, sold by them for US use and by Bell ExpresVue for Canadian use. Both have the 30-sec skip feature by just pressing the UP button on the remote.
Oh, and the DISH PVRs don't have the ability to 'phone home' with viewing data, as they run just fine when unplugged from a phone line.
RADcon in Pasco, WA, added a LAN party and was moderately pleased with its success. http://www.radcon.org/index.php?buttons= meetings
THE PRIOMISED LAN in Portland, OR, was last year - no info on it.
When looking for bandwidth, hope you will consider wireless ISPs. I've used them at OryCon http://www.orycon.org for several years with no problems. (The convention hotel charges usurious amounts for bandwidth.)
Amateur Radio, especially ARES/RACES (Emergency Services folks).
Fidelity is irrelevant, given the itsy bitsy bandwidth. As long as there's two changes to the software, every EC (Emergency Communicator) ham in the country would want one.
1. Rewind-and-playback during record ('what did he say?').
2. Monitoring over speaker and headset while recording.
K7AAY, Portland OR
1. Ken MacLeod is the finest 'new' SF author to be had today, bar none. He takes the finest concepts of SF and stands them on their ear in a believable yet certainly not-your-father's-politics matrix. Kinda like Ursula LeGuin at her best before she descended in whiny pretentious mushy crap. He has two interlinked trilogies, yet each book stands well on its own.
http://www.salon.com/books/feature/1999/07/27/ma cl eod_interview/ called him "the greatest living Trotskyist libertarian cyberpunk science-fiction humorist."
2. Lois McMaster Bujold is the Heinlein of our generation. No foolin', she writes about _people_ who just happen to be in the future, and does the finest job of writing romantically about the hope of the future.
http://www.dendarii.com/
3. John Ringo does the best job of hard-science, military SF page-turners since, oh, say, that Clancy fellow. However, he's been there and done that (Airborne!) and also does war commentary for FOX.
http://www.johnringo.com/
4. The latter two authors appear in the Baen Free Library http://baen.com/library which makes 44, count them, 44 free e-books in unencrypted formats (RB, RTF, HTML, PDB and Microsoft Reader) for PCs, Macs and PDAs of all kinds. Now, Jim Baen (former editor of GALAXY and owner of his own publishing house, Baen Books) ain't a dummy; he knows once you start reading Ringo and Bujold, you will be hanging around his websiote, looking to buy the next fix... but, a (mostly) harmless habit, if I do say so myself. I can quit any time, really I can.
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Every envelope should have a stamped code on the back for every time it passes through a sorter. No database of every item, no database of every scanned address; just a rubber stamp machine.
Sure would like to know if this is the loot raped from Forry Ackerman, as a result of his forced bankruptcy. If so, I couldn't touch the stuff, even if it had Raquel Welch's personal Orgasmatron.
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http://members.eisa.net.au/~johben57/fjacker.ht
http://www.evercel.com/features.html
makes a better, lighter battery - was there a reason besides initial cost why it was not used?
http://www.evercel.com/features.html makes a better,lighter battery - was there a reason besides initial cost why it was not used?
More Portlandic stuff
o nart/wash parkart.htm
G RAMS/SOS/4 KIDS/arthist/portlan.htm
America's deepest subway station
http://www.trimet.org/max/blueline/stati
Second largest hollow copper statue (second only to Lady Liberty)
http://www.heritagepreservation.org/PRO
Fraunce's Tavern.
Since Washington DC was post-revolutionary, there's nothing from the Revolution to see, but the SAR (Sons of the American Revoution) restorated a revolutionary rabble-rouser's drinking pit, just by Battery Park and not a few blocks from Ground Zero.
Oh, yeah, forgot... you guys don't have guns, to speak of, any more.
.
. cccpstc.org/armory.htmm /
We can fix that
While in Portland, there are at least two places to shoot full auto.. yeah, baby, rock'n'roll. Rent the Tommy gun or assault rifle of your choice, buy the bricks of ammo and have away.
Fairly Honest Don's Machine Gun Parlor
2020 NW Aloclek Dr Suite #110 Hillsboro, OR 97124
Phone: (503) 640 0750 Fax: (503) 648 8376
http://www.fairlyhonestdons.net/index.htm
Then, there's the Public Safety Training Center of Clackamas Community College, just about a mile south of our new Krispy Kreme (oooh, doughnuts) on SE 82nd.
http://www.cccpstc.org/map.htm
http://www
http://www.krispykreme.co
Regrettably, rumpcarrot neglected to mention the Church of Elvis is, sadly, closed.
v isor.com/Attraction_Review-g6087 8-d146840-Reviews-Experience_Music_Project_Museum- Seattle_Washington.html
But, Portland's worth the visit, especially because of easy access by the finest busline in America
http://www.greentortoise.com/
Once here, you _can_ visit the Oregon Navy.
http://www.omsi.edu/visit/submarine/
Near Portland, there's the Spruce Goose
http://www.sprucegoose.org/
and fourty-three other aircraft on display.
While here, you can stretch your budget by staying at the Portland Hostel
http://www.portlandhostel.org/
And, on your way North to Vancouver & Victoria, there's the Seattle Music Experience, built by a geek for geeks
http://www.emplive.com/
http://www.tripad
But, before you leave town, stop off at a McMenamin's for a pint of real beer and what Harlan Ellison called 'the last honest burger in America'.
http://mcmenamins.com/
DE weps would be sued for close-in anti-missile defense, replacing the Gatlings used for this last defense in current designs.
I still have the first (Fuji) bike I ever built, but it's there only for two-stage (bike-bus) travel, because I love my recumbent.
d f_vs_vola e.jpg
It may be harder to pedal uphill, but the feeling of control which comes from the semi-reclined seating position gives me much more confidence that I won't become street pizza because some damfool in an SUV craters me.
As Neil Stephenson said about urban biking, if you rely on the other guy to avoid you, you're toast (sic). With a 'bent, I have eye contact with drivers, which makes a tremendous difference in maintaing a 'bubble' of protective space around me.
I had never expected to be bike commuting at 50, but the recumbent bike makes that 12-mile commute a joyous sport.
Look at these pix and then tell me which causes less wind resistance and which can be maintained longer with less stress:
http://www.hostelshoppe.com/images/tech/
Which speaks for itself. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=Naked+coe d+quidditch&spell=1
Not to mention the literature of future freedom:
L.Neil Smith, et al.
(Start with THE PROBABILITY BROACH, Tor 2001 edition)
http://www.lneilsmith.com/lnsbooks.html
http://www.lneilsmith.com/
1) Was the shooter a minor? Sure sounds like it. Minors have no business in an urban environment using weapons unsupervised.
2) If his daddy didn't teach him the manual of arms for the weapon (including the lack of a magazine safety), he should not have been touching it.
3) What was the kid doing with a weapon around a four-year-old?
4) How did the kid get the weapon? Was it in a locked container? If there are minors around, and it was not, then daddy's too dumb to breed, and should have his parenthood license revoked.
5) The "$2 safety feature" will balloon the price of the weapon because of R&D & litigation costs. Some weapons, also, cannot be designed to accomodate such an 'idiot-proofing' device. Besides, there's always a better grade of idiot ready to demonstrate your idiot-proofing device is not ready for prime time.
Conclusion: The primary safety device for any weapon is the grey matter between the user's ears.
Too dumb to breed.
Sales tax?
The _most_ regressive and _easiest_ to cheat tax?
Pfui!
There's no mechanism to collect a sales tax, so the startup costs would consume the first year's collections alone.
Oregon's problem is the discounted corporate income tax... that, and the ridiculous kicker law which should have gone to a Rainy Day Fund.
If corporations are going to have a corporate shield in litigation, they can darn well pay for the privilege, with the same rate I pay my income tax at.
http://www.islandone.org/LEOBiblio/SPBI116.HTMt tp://www.launchloop.com
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We all sit around the campfires at USENET's comp.dcom.telecom and talk about CLECs (Competitive Local Exchange Carriers, what this fellow is inquiring about) all day, and all of the night.
Stop by and visit us, we're mostly friendly.
Pardon me for being clueless, but I don't see in this concept a description of what happens when a posting from a listserv or other e-mail list goes to a new subscriber. Mail bounces back to the listserv, right?
Well, the first e-mail to a news subscriber is often the e-mail required to confirm subscription. No reply, and the subscriber is plonked.
Sounds suboptimal to me.
So, you whitelist the listserv machines... until one of them has to change IP addresses. Whoops! No umpteen bazillions of e-mail messages go no where.
I'm sure that listserv admin would find the idea suboptimal about this time.
Nice idea, but No Slack, as far as I can see.
Try plastic polish from an auto parts store, originally designed to clear scratches off the cover over the speedometer.
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band should not be overlooked. http://www.rosebudus.com/dozen/discography.html
http://www.ralf.org/~colomon/vocalese/lhr.html has much useful info on LHR discography
Echostar's DISH TV satellite systems have several PVRs, sold by them for US use and by Bell ExpresVue for Canadian use. Both have the 30-sec skip feature by just pressing the UP button on the remote.
Oh, and the DISH PVRs don't have the ability to 'phone home' with viewing data, as they run just fine when unplugged from a phone line.
RADcon in Pasco, WA, added a LAN party and was moderately pleased with its success.= meetings
http://www.radcon.org/index.php?buttons
THE PRIOMISED LAN in Portland, OR, was last year - no info on it.
When looking for bandwidth, hope you will consider wireless ISPs. I've used them at OryCon
http://www.orycon.org
for several years with no problems. (The convention hotel charges usurious amounts for bandwidth.)
Amateur Radio, especially ARES/RACES (Emergency Services folks). Fidelity is irrelevant, given the itsy bitsy bandwidth. As long as there's two changes to the software, every EC (Emergency Communicator) ham in the country would want one. 1. Rewind-and-playback during record ('what did he say?'). 2. Monitoring over speaker and headset while recording. K7AAY, Portland OR
1. Ken MacLeod is the finest 'new' SF author to be had today, bar none. He takes the finest concepts of SF and stands them on their ear in a believable yet certainly not-your-father's-politics matrix. Kinda like Ursula LeGuin at her best before she descended in whiny pretentious mushy crap. He has two interlinked trilogies, yet each book stands well on its own.
a cl eod_interview/
http://www.salon.com/books/feature/1999/07/27/m
called him "the greatest living Trotskyist libertarian cyberpunk science-fiction humorist."
2. Lois McMaster Bujold is the Heinlein of our generation. No foolin', she writes about _people_ who just happen to be in the future, and does the finest job of writing romantically about the hope of the future.
http://www.dendarii.com/
3. John Ringo does the best job of hard-science, military SF page-turners since, oh, say, that Clancy fellow. However, he's been there and done that (Airborne!) and also does war commentary for FOX.
http://www.johnringo.com/
4. The latter two authors appear in the Baen Free Library
http://baen.com/library
which makes 44, count them, 44 free e-books in unencrypted formats (RB, RTF, HTML, PDB and Microsoft Reader) for PCs, Macs and PDAs of all kinds. Now, Jim Baen (former editor of GALAXY and owner of his own publishing house, Baen Books) ain't a dummy; he knows once you start reading Ringo and Bujold, you will be hanging around his websiote, looking to buy the next fix... but, a (mostly) harmless habit, if I do say so myself. I can quit any time, really I can.
Many other respectable types beside Fast Eddie Teller thought it would work. See PROJECT ORION by Dyson for details.