My tactic with the women is to start asking them what they are wearing and tell them they have a sexy voice. I usually get hung up on (just like in real life!), but every now and then I almost get one into a session of free phone sex. Those people must be incredibly bored in their jobs.
If it's a guy I pull a Jim Florentine and start talking about how lonely and depressed I am, or I act retarded (just like in real life!) and confused just to waste their time. They bail olut, but I never had anyone call back angry because I'm a decent voice actor. I think they feel bad sometimes.
...but how valuable *IS* a list of 50 million people who dislike sales calls so much they bothered to log in and sign up? Is that really a lucrative target market?
This is, as everyone says, about profit. So for what reason would any potential seller view this list as anything but what it is: a list of people unlikely to deliver any profit, and thus should be avoided as they wish?
Alpha and Omega: The Search for the Beginning and End of the Universe by Charles Seife. Seife is a mathematician turned writer and science journalist. It was published just a couple months ago, and describes the third revolution in cosmology currently underway.
I kept seeing articles on dark energy and the fact that the expansion of the universe was accelerating, so I bought this book to get back in touch. Easily one of the clearest explanations of current cosmology. I now understand the standard model of matter about as well as any layman can ever hope to.
In 1996, Carlson, who California law enforcement officials believe placed anti-African Americans, anti-Jewish and anti-Latino leaflets into supermarket products
Someone I work with found one of those. I remember there was a flurry of news articles for about three days and then nothing. I don't recall if he was caught at the time.
Nice to see he's moved his hate into the new milennium. Leaflets are so 20th century.
I keep running into 3rd-4th year Physics majors who think that you're not doing real Physics unless you write and solve equations.
Authors of electrical engineering texts, especially in the Communications field, are like this. I recall when I was teaching myself the Viterbi algorithm, and I went through book after book until I finally found a clear verbal description. My reaction was, "Oh, is that all it is? Why didn't those other authors just say that!" That single verbal description (with a couple diagrams) allowed me to go from zero to a C++ sim to a VHDL implementation to my current project of writing a program that generates the VHDL for custom Viterbi cores. None of the pages of equations did a thing for me.
Maybe it's my shortcoming, but I get lost in those pages of equations. One problem is that each author uses their own terminology and symbology. They spend a paragraph on the how and then 400 pages deriving performance bounds. Give me 400 pages on how and an Appendix with a table of performance bounds.
I think there might be some contest prize in the EE academic world for who can construct the largest matrix equation to describe a handful of flip-flops and gates. They seem to come from mostly a pure academic background, and never actually had to realize anything on an FPGA or make a DSP perform their wonky decoding method at any usable rate. For example, the hardware world is still having to play tricks and games to get practical turbo decoders to work, and try to find a commercial Viterbi core that's more than radix-2 or greater than constraint length 9.
...looking at how people go to great lengths to discourage pigeons from soiling public art and other objects, the pigeon-thwarting bronze statue actually has practical application. Sounds better than those rotating "antennas" they put on the top of some billboards.
I'd like to see the result if the site wasn;t/.ed.
One interesting proposed idea was to turn these launches from spaceports into paid-entry "events" - with different competitors competing for the best performance etc.
For best viewing, I recommend a steel and concrete bunker, preferably in another state.
Not sure I'd pay to be in the immediate vicinity when Salvage 1 goes on it's maiden voyage. I wish 'em well, but I'll watch the video tape, I think.
Is it me or does this just measure the wavelength, and then use a number from the microwave label which already has "c" encoded into it? It seems a bit of a cheat.
One idea would be that external sources have to contend with the aluminum shell of the airplane and receivers designed (somewhat) to handle intefering signals.
Devices inside the airplane could couple directly into internal wiring. Perhaps someone with experience in airplane assembly can illuminate us on how well the wire harnesses are shielded.
Its amazing what geeks want to do with OTHER people's money.
Hey, it's amazing what the politcos actually DO with other people's money. At least the space program provides returns beyond an ideologically enslaved underclass/voting block.
That's an oddly broad statement. Microwaves at the correct frequency can be absorbed by water molecules and cause the water to heat up, hence we have microwave ovens.
Heat in and of itself does not have to involve microwaves. You may be thinking of infrared radiation?
Whatever happened to the microwave clothes dryer? They had a prototype working a few years back, and then it disappeared. Seemed like a neat idea.
As long as the exercise doesn't involve going back to the stone age I agree.
Now, now. Don't knock the stone age. For one thing, relationships were much easier back then, the Flintstones notwithstanding. Instead of an expensive car, all you needed was a club.
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If it's a guy I pull a Jim Florentine and start talking about how lonely and depressed I am, or I act retarded (just like in real life!) and confused just to waste their time. They bail olut, but I never had anyone call back angry because I'm a decent voice actor. I think they feel bad sometimes.
Fun, but I still signed up for the DNC list.
This is, as everyone says, about profit. So for what reason would any potential seller view this list as anything but what it is: a list of people unlikely to deliver any profit, and thus should be avoided as they wish?
It just has to be.
No, really, it does.
When I boot my computer at work, it loads up Windows. Make it stop!
Alpha and Omega: The Search for the Beginning and End of the Universe by Charles Seife. Seife is a mathematician turned writer and science journalist. It was published just a couple months ago, and describes the third revolution in cosmology currently underway.
I kept seeing articles on dark energy and the fact that the expansion of the universe was accelerating, so I bought this book to get back in touch. Easily one of the clearest explanations of current cosmology. I now understand the standard model of matter about as well as any layman can ever hope to.
Um.
Oh! In Soviet Russia, the clust- ah forget it... the moment has passed. :(
Someone I work with found one of those. I remember there was a flurry of news articles for about three days and then nothing. I don't recall if he was caught at the time.
Nice to see he's moved his hate into the new milennium. Leaflets are so 20th century.
Hey! I joke! Clam down!
Authors of electrical engineering texts, especially in the Communications field, are like this. I recall when I was teaching myself the Viterbi algorithm, and I went through book after book until I finally found a clear verbal description. My reaction was, "Oh, is that all it is? Why didn't those other authors just say that!" That single verbal description (with a couple diagrams) allowed me to go from zero to a C++ sim to a VHDL implementation to my current project of writing a program that generates the VHDL for custom Viterbi cores. None of the pages of equations did a thing for me.
Maybe it's my shortcoming, but I get lost in those pages of equations. One problem is that each author uses their own terminology and symbology. They spend a paragraph on the how and then 400 pages deriving performance bounds. Give me 400 pages on how and an Appendix with a table of performance bounds.
I think there might be some contest prize in the EE academic world for who can construct the largest matrix equation to describe a handful of flip-flops and gates. They seem to come from mostly a pure academic background, and never actually had to realize anything on an FPGA or make a DSP perform their wonky decoding method at any usable rate. For example, the hardware world is still having to play tricks and games to get practical turbo decoders to work, and try to find a commercial Viterbi core that's more than radix-2 or greater than constraint length 9.
I dunno... it's like the Field of Dreams except with statues and pigeons. If you erect it, they will come.
I'd like to see the result if the site wasn;t /.ed.
I have worked steadily every single day of my life since I was four years old. That coal mine taught me to be a man, and it put hair on my chest.
For best viewing, I recommend a steel and concrete bunker, preferably in another state.
Not sure I'd pay to be in the immediate vicinity when Salvage 1 goes on it's maiden voyage. I wish 'em well, but I'll watch the video tape, I think.
How much for him to be the first to get blowed up real good in a private spacecraft?
Yeah, I'm jealous of vapid pretty boys who get everything they want from a befuddled society. Deal with it.
Bah. I built a SimCity once where the power grid survived a back to back alien attack and earthquake. Dem Russkies got nothin' on me.
Well... change NEEDS to DEMAND and you're back to free market captialism. ;-)
Is it me or does this just measure the wavelength, and then use a number from the microwave label which already has "c" encoded into it? It seems a bit of a cheat.
I must just be more buffed and cooler than everyone else. :-) Bow to me!
And if you want a more obscure reference, it's Return Of The Giant Hogweed all over again. :-o
Tell that to a Venusian. :-) All things are relative.
God damn, but I'm a geek! :-o
Go ahead. Envision it.
Envision it, dammit!
Fine! Don't! See if I care!
Hmph!
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Linux powered T-Birds?
I hear there's this amazing new stuff called "metal" that has amazing shielding properties.
Devices inside the airplane could couple directly into internal wiring. Perhaps someone with experience in airplane assembly can illuminate us on how well the wire harnesses are shielded.
Hey, it's amazing what the politcos actually DO with other people's money. At least the space program provides returns beyond an ideologically enslaved underclass/voting block.
That's an oddly broad statement. Microwaves at the correct frequency can be absorbed by water molecules and cause the water to heat up, hence we have microwave ovens.
Heat in and of itself does not have to involve microwaves. You may be thinking of infrared radiation?
Whatever happened to the microwave clothes dryer? They had a prototype working a few years back, and then it disappeared. Seemed like a neat idea.
Now, now. Don't knock the stone age. For one thing, relationships were much easier back then, the Flintstones notwithstanding. Instead of an expensive car, all you needed was a club.