for some reason there is just something inherently funny about chickens.
A plus is the picture. In the SE section is the catcher. At first glance it looked like a huge chickens foot is sticking out of conveyer side.
Another goodie is the PETA folks.
"We support using machines that reduce the panic, fear and horror of chickens," says Karen Davis of United Poultry Concerns, a Machipongo, Va., group that opposes eating chickens and also runs a sanctuary for a few lucky birds that manage to escape the farms (usually by falling off a truck)
"Being held upside down freaks out the birds," says Michael P. Lacy of the University of Georgia's poultry-science department. "As long as they are on their feet, they feel like they are in control, like people."
Oh man. There goes my idea for a âoechicken horrifierâ. âoeThe chicken will put the lotion in the basket or the chicken will get the hose.â We'll see whose in control here.
A sanctuary for fallen chickens? Dude, thatâ(TM)s like a waste of time and space. Plus they are probably all messed up from falling 10 feet from a speeding rig.
Whoâ(TM)s footing the vet bills?
Also, are there like a group of people who follow these trucks around all day hoping some hapless chicken will take a tumble and do they have to fight hillbillies and vagrants for them?
Oh wait, it gets better :
Early devices included the chicken vacuum, which sucked up birds and shot them through tubes to waiting trucks. But the birds tended to plug up the tubes and turn somersaults as they traveled inside the contraption. "We had too many die on us," recalls Buddy Burruss, vice president of operations at Tip Top Poultry Inc. of Marietta, Ga., which tested and quickly abandoned the pneumatic approach two decades ago.
Damn. You KNOW most of these first engineers were doing this for fun. Hell, most probably worked for free. I mean cummon, freakinâ(TM) live chicken cannons?!? Canâ(TM)t you just see these dudes on a Friday? âoeLetâ(TM)s see how far we can shoot a chickenâ : probably some of the most sweetest words ever uttered by man.
The technological breakthrough came from Europe, where the industry is under more pressure from animal welfare groups to reduce livestock suffering. Starting in the early 1980s, Britain's Silsoe Research Institute received about $200,000 a year from the government to design a humane harvesting machine. At Silsoe, Mr. Berry tried everything to force the birds to move under their own power. He flashed strobe lights in their eyes, hoping to startle them into action. He tried goosing them along with tiny jets of air. Nothing worked.
His eureka moment came after realizing that soft rubber fingers could be used to gently close around each bird, ushering it onto a conveyer belt -- a sort of Venus' flytrap for chickens. Techno-Catch of Kosciusko, Miss., uses the technology in its Chickat harvester and sees a U.S. market for 600 of the machines.
But then some chicken molester came along and spoiled the fun with his rubber fingers. $200k/yr ?! since the 80â(TM)s?! Thatâ(TM)s like $4 million minus the $10 strobe light from Radio Shack!! ( you know he already had the rubber fingers ).
Where was I on career day when this option came up? I missed this job posted on monster.com.
20 year contract. $200k/year. Applicant must be able to come up with a way to make chickens move. Experience with cannons and chicken horrifiers a plus.
I'd be like gone for 19 years and 11 months, then show up with a high pressure hose. Check please.
After the end of a project or if a drive went bad, the drive platter was physically removed from the hd, smashed and then finally burned! ( Ob. M.P. quote : "burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp" )
Better than what they used to do: destroy the ENTIRE PC too!
The XboxMediaPlayer for the Xbox allows you to use a modded Xbox to play
DivX, XVID, (S)VCD (MPEG-1/2), MP3 & other supported video/audio formats via
your TV so it can used as a multimedia jukebox. It also supports network
streaming via XStream.
A simple clean looking interface navigatible via remote control.
One converts exe's to run on the XBOX. And another is a non MS compiler. So
soon we will have all these apps available with out having to have a $25 mod
chip for the XBox.
I'm going to get two of these. One to replace my dead DVD player with the
media player.
The other for the ultimate MAME / emu. arcade machine I'm going to build.
Perfect solution for this application.
Inexpensive, TV out, small form factors, sound, 4 usb ports, remote controlable, good graphics and
networkable. I can't make a PC this cheap!
Since MS looses $$ on the hardware, let them subsidize your media system!
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Okay I'll give it a shot.
How about the classification of this problem?
If proving the there's no difference between 'hard' and 'not hard' IS itself not hard, then it should have been done by now...
If it is 'hard' and true then it's also 'not hard', but if it's not hard it should have been proven already.
So it must be false, or atleast an unprovable statement,(apologies to Godel, et al) everybody back to bed.
A plus is the picture. In the SE section is the catcher. At first glance it looked like a huge chickens foot is sticking out of conveyer side.
Another goodie is the PETA folks.
Oh man. There goes my idea for a âoechicken horrifierâ. âoeThe chicken will put the lotion in the basket or the chicken will get the hose.â We'll see whose in control here.
A sanctuary for fallen chickens? Dude, thatâ(TM)s like a waste of time and space. Plus they are probably all messed up from falling 10 feet from a speeding rig.Whoâ(TM)s footing the vet bills?
Also, are there like a group of people who follow these trucks around all day hoping some hapless chicken will take a tumble and do they have to fight hillbillies and vagrants for them?
Oh wait, it gets better :
Damn. You KNOW most of these first engineers were doing this for fun. Hell, most probably worked for free. I mean cummon, freakinâ(TM) live chicken cannons?!? Canâ(TM)t you just see these dudes on a Friday? âoeLetâ(TM)s see how far we can shoot a chickenâ : probably some of the most sweetest words ever uttered by man. But then some chicken molester came along and spoiled the fun with his rubber fingers. $200k/yr ?! since the 80â(TM)s?! Thatâ(TM)s like $4 million minus the $10 strobe light from Radio Shack!! ( you know he already had the rubber fingers ). Where was I on career day when this option came up? I missed this job posted on monster.com. I'd be like gone for 19 years and 11 months, then show up with a high pressure hose. Check please.We didn't bother with wiping the drives.
After the end of a project or if a drive went bad, the drive platter was physically removed from the hd, smashed and then finally burned!
( Ob. M.P. quote : "burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp" )
Better than what they used to do: destroy the ENTIRE PC too!
There are a few PVR open projects in early development.
Here are a few mentions :
Dreamix
Xbox Media Player
I have been considering the XBOX for just such a thing. You can get one for around $150 US.
XboxMediaPlayer A simple clean looking interface navigatible via remote control.Plus there is a MAME, NES, PSX, Atari 2600, c64 emulators ... than run on
it.
There are a few coming to fruition.
One converts exe's to run on the XBOX. And another is a non MS compiler. So soon we will have all these apps available with out having to have a $25 mod chip for the XBox.
I'm going to get two of these. One to replace my dead DVD player with the media player.
The other for the ultimate MAME / emu. arcade machine I'm going to build.
Perfect solution for this application.
Inexpensive, TV out, small form factors, sound, 4 usb ports, remote controlable, good graphics and networkable. I can't make a PC this cheap!
Since MS looses $$ on the hardware, let them subsidize your media system!
Plus you can play XBOX games on it too!I have been considering the XBOX for just such a thing. You can get one for around $150 US. XboxMediaPlayer The XboxMediaPlayer for the Xbox allows you to use a modded Xbox to play DivX, XVID, (S)VCD (MPEG-1/2), MP3 & other supported video/audio formats via your TV so it can used as a multimedia jukebox. It also supports network streaming via XStream. Plus a simple clean looking interface navigatible via remote control. Plus there are XBox a MAME, NES, PSX, Atari 2600, c64 emulators ...
There are a few projects coming to fruition.
One converts exe's to run on the XBOX. And another is a non MS compiler. So
soon we will have all these apps available with out having to have a $25 mod
chip for the XBox.
I'm going to get two of these. One to replace my dead DVD player with the
media player.
The other for the ultimate MAME / emu. arcade machine I'm going to build.
Perfect solution for this application. CHEAP, TV out, good graphics and
networkable. Plus you can play XBOX games on it too!
24.) Scientists Sequence Genomes of Malarial Parasite and Mosquito - Big news for people in Africa ... but I think they have a bigger problem ... its called AIDS!
But a big *huzza* for parisitesWe can finally begin to make some progress helping those poor unfortunate mosquitos!