People from planets in the Plural Zed sectors should not travel on space liners, as they are inherently incapable of staying in the same universe.
This is also why the Earth reappeared in So Long and Thanks For All The Fish and Mostly Harmless- because it was only destroyed in three, rather than five, dimensions.
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Hell, tell them that without a good firewall, (Osama || Saddam || tooth fairy) will break into their computers and terrorists will win. (That method seemed to work well with the average Joe Sixpack for a different, more lethal cause).
Funny, I've been trying to convince people we need to firewall the country due to the terrorist threat, and all I get is called racist.
And my grandfather (once he was 35 and his hereditary tolerance level disappeared) was always on his second drink: he could see the empty bottle in front of him and the one in his hand. One-two- must be on my second drink.
But no one lies more than a sober man with an agenda.
Ain't it the truth. I'd be WAY more satisfied with Bush if they had to prop him up to give a speech. It'd at least be entertaining that way. This way (incompetent sober man with an agenda) is just plain sad.
The 555 is nearing its 30st year in production now. You can get a full blown microcontroller for the same price. There is almost no reason ever to use it. So you do not have to feel guilty - your teacher should for using such obselete parts as reference.
Well, admitedly, this was nearly 10 years ago now that I took that class.
If you really need a discrete timer, use something from the 74HCxxx series.
I'll look into it, thanks.
And besides: The hack on the site must be the most clumsy electronic hack ever. Bad electronic design, extremely awkward realisation. (More tape anyone?)
It amazes me that it actually worked- with no resistance and no capacitance, they might as well have skipped the 555 timer and just jumped the shutter button....
but no, this is just based on the same old 555 I always had problems working with in logic class- "Damnit Jim, I'm a software student, not a hardware hacker".
As it says in the manual- not intended for use in heavy traffic. That is, it'd be a couple of seconds late in responding- I thought you meant like on my commute between Portland and Salem in Oregon, where the traffic clears out and many people exceed the speed limit by 15-40 MPH, weaving around the rest of traffic as if it was standing still. Under that situation- the range finder would go from "car ahead must brake" to "nothing ahead, infinite range" when you changed lanes- thus acelerating back up to pre-programed cruise speed.
Are you kidding France/Russia were practically begging for it the only member of the UN Security counsil with a Veto who was a firm no was the US.
Who gives a rip about the UN Secuirity Council? The real politics involved were the US electorate, aka, sheeple. It would have been political suicide to remove sanctions while Saddam Hussien was still in power.
I think this is a cool feature in terms of gadgetry, but I would rather my car not respond according to the way some yahoo in front of me is driving. I tend to change lanes if someone in front of me is slowing down, rather than slow down with them.
You are EXACTLY the right type of driver for this gadget- the car starts slowing down, you change lanes, and as soon as you do, the car returns to the pre-programmed speed. Standard defensive driving dictates that you speed up while changing lanes- and this device mimics the behavior.
In Asimov's "The End Of Eternity" where the time machine was really just an infinite series of a single room that existed in different times, the whole thing was powered by taping into the infinite energy potential of Nova Sol- a few million years into the future.
Ok spunky, how does the war in Iraq benefit any oil compnay more than lifting sancations would have..
Simple- it was politically impossible to lift sanctions while Saddam Hussien was still in power- the point of the Iraq war was to make the lifting of sanctions possible.
And the Suni, and Kurds are tru Christians?
No, but THEY HAVE OIL! And thus are Blessed by the Lord! Those Pagans in the Sudan don't have any OIL! They're not blessed, they're just the average run of the mill pagans who need to get out of the way of companies being run by True Christians (tm). Haven't you read Landover Baptist's newsletter recently?:-)
Twice geosynchronous orbit. The "endpoint station" in the theoretical construction is actually at the middle of the cable- with a huge counterweight twice as high.
The majority of the How is elimination of duplicate work- if there's one big fault in the Kerry-Edwards health plan, it's that it will put the HMOs out of business entirely, causing the layoffs of literally millions of workers whose only role in the health care industry currently is filling out, checking, and filing forms. They'll do this by eliminating Health Insurance as we know it, and going to a single payer plan. The estimate is that this is enough to cut the total health care costs down to about $750 billion from $1 Trillion- enough to cut everybody's bill by $1000 and still insure an extra 40 million people.
Now whether you believe that plan will work or not, is up to you.
I wonder is GWB really a "recovering alcoholic"? I thought they went to meetings. I know he has claimed to be, when he was claiming jesus saved him.
Good point- I wonder if this is like my major argument with Evangelical Christianity- the saved-at-a-single-prayer thing. To me, as a Catholic, conversion is a lifetime experience (even when you are born into a religion), it take time. As the grandchild of an alcoholic, I also realize that "recovery" and "relapse" are two sides of the same coin, it doesn't take much to push back over that edge into a life of sin even if you're "Saved". To me it's entirely unrealistic to be a "recovered" alcoholic, or for that matter, a "Saved Christian".
2. Bush likes war on the cheap, hates actually hiring Americans to supply or staff the military. And all of our divisions are in Iraq and Afghanistan (hint to any Chinese out there, now would be an excellent time to invade the United States, we have no military here at all anymore).
3. Those people in the Sudan aren't True Christians (tm) and so they don't matter.
I'll second this- I'm the grandchild of an alcoholic, and the misuse of sexuality DOES continue into the 2nd generation down. Among my cousins, we had incest, several single mothers, and a couple of lesbians who had been molested as children.
God I hate the 20 second limit on posting. It only takes me 12 seconds to type Nebraska, typing really slowly.
But it looks like it could still be anyone's race- less than 20 Electoral College Votes separate the candidates in the lates polls, and at least three states (Ohio, Pensylvania, and Florida) have more than 20 EVs and are in a statistical dead heat.
In other news, my home state of Oregon is back in solid Kerryville- so I might end up voting Libertarian yet.
Thus, the obvious thing to do would be for the PSTN companies to be the ones rolling out the cable (on existing copper) and WiMAX service. There's always money to be made as the last-mile provider of information.
Do you honestly think that it is a bad thing if robots/computers can do the work of 25% to 75% people?
No, but it will require a basic redesign of our economic system.
Would you be happy working a job that you knew didn't have to be done by you?
Only if it was required for my survival.
Sure, it looks bad on the surface. People wouldn't be getting paychecks because of this new technology. But what if it meant that food became so cheap that feeding those people became almost free. What if it meant that their houses and clothing and anything else they needed could be created cheaply by robots?
Then the price of land would quickly rise to over $1 million/acre, unless something was done, and massive numbers of people would die of exposure and starvation for not being allowed to earn anything at all.
You would hold back this kind of progress?
No, I'm just saying it needs to be handled *carefully* and that neither of our current political parties is up to the task.
If a robot wants to do my job for me, im fine with it. I'll be out by the pool if it needs me.
Sounds good to me- and the idea is that if these things can be created this cheaply, then there is *no* reason not to use taxes to create them, and make food, clothing, shelter, clean water, and medical care (the basic 5 needs of humanity) free. All else is luxury- and occasional working can provide that.
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No it isn't- it's South Carolina. Nearly as bad, but far more green.
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People from planets in the Plural Zed sectors should not travel on space liners, as they are inherently incapable of staying in the same universe.
This is also why the Earth reappeared in So Long and Thanks For All The Fish and Mostly Harmless- because it was only destroyed in three, rather than five, dimensions.
Hell, tell them that without a good firewall, (Osama || Saddam || tooth fairy) will break into their computers and terrorists will win. (That method seemed to work well with the average Joe Sixpack for a different, more lethal cause).
Funny, I've been trying to convince people we need to firewall the country due to the terrorist threat, and all I get is called racist.
And my grandfather (once he was 35 and his hereditary tolerance level disappeared) was always on his second drink: he could see the empty bottle in front of him and the one in his hand. One-two- must be on my second drink.
But no one lies more than a sober man with an agenda.
Ain't it the truth. I'd be WAY more satisfied with Bush if they had to prop him up to give a speech. It'd at least be entertaining that way. This way (incompetent sober man with an agenda) is just plain sad.
And, if you're doing a binary counter, it makes a great timer circuit if you're able to get the capacitance and resistance right (I never was).
The 555 is nearing its 30st year in production now. You can get a full blown microcontroller for the same price. There is almost no reason ever to use it. So you do not have to feel guilty - your teacher should for using such obselete parts as reference.
Well, admitedly, this was nearly 10 years ago now that I took that class.
If you really need a discrete timer, use something from the 74HCxxx series.
I'll look into it, thanks.
And besides: The hack on the site must be the most clumsy electronic hack ever. Bad electronic design, extremely awkward realisation. (More tape anyone?)
It amazes me that it actually worked- with no resistance and no capacitance, they might as well have skipped the 555 timer and just jumped the shutter button....
but no, this is just based on the same old 555 I always had problems working with in logic class- "Damnit Jim, I'm a software student, not a hardware hacker".
As it says in the manual- not intended for use in heavy traffic. That is, it'd be a couple of seconds late in responding- I thought you meant like on my commute between Portland and Salem in Oregon, where the traffic clears out and many people exceed the speed limit by 15-40 MPH, weaving around the rest of traffic as if it was standing still. Under that situation- the range finder would go from "car ahead must brake" to "nothing ahead, infinite range" when you changed lanes- thus acelerating back up to pre-programed cruise speed.
Are you kidding France/Russia were practically begging for it the only member of the UN Security counsil with a Veto who was a firm no was the US.
Who gives a rip about the UN Secuirity Council? The real politics involved were the US electorate, aka, sheeple. It would have been political suicide to remove sanctions while Saddam Hussien was still in power.
I think this is a cool feature in terms of gadgetry, but I would rather my car not respond according to the way some yahoo in front of me is driving. I tend to change lanes if someone in front of me is slowing down, rather than slow down with them.
You are EXACTLY the right type of driver for this gadget- the car starts slowing down, you change lanes, and as soon as you do, the car returns to the pre-programmed speed. Standard defensive driving dictates that you speed up while changing lanes- and this device mimics the behavior.
you've got a long (infinite) time to wait.
In Asimov's "The End Of Eternity" where the time machine was really just an infinite series of a single room that existed in different times, the whole thing was powered by taping into the infinite energy potential of Nova Sol- a few million years into the future.
Ok spunky, how does the war in Iraq benefit any oil compnay more than lifting sancations would have..
:-)
Simple- it was politically impossible to lift sanctions while Saddam Hussien was still in power- the point of the Iraq war was to make the lifting of sanctions possible.
And the Suni, and Kurds are tru Christians?
No, but THEY HAVE OIL! And thus are Blessed by the Lord! Those Pagans in the Sudan don't have any OIL! They're not blessed, they're just the average run of the mill pagans who need to get out of the way of companies being run by True Christians (tm). Haven't you read Landover Baptist's newsletter recently?
Twice geosynchronous orbit. The "endpoint station" in the theoretical construction is actually at the middle of the cable- with a huge counterweight twice as high.
This problem can be conquored with adequate shielding- and thus isn't really a problem.
The majority of the How is elimination of duplicate work- if there's one big fault in the Kerry-Edwards health plan, it's that it will put the HMOs out of business entirely, causing the layoffs of literally millions of workers whose only role in the health care industry currently is filling out, checking, and filing forms. They'll do this by eliminating Health Insurance as we know it, and going to a single payer plan. The estimate is that this is enough to cut the total health care costs down to about $750 billion from $1 Trillion- enough to cut everybody's bill by $1000 and still insure an extra 40 million people.
Now whether you believe that plan will work or not, is up to you.
I wonder is GWB really a "recovering alcoholic"? I thought they went to meetings. I know he has claimed to be, when he was claiming jesus saved him.
Good point- I wonder if this is like my major argument with Evangelical Christianity- the saved-at-a-single-prayer thing. To me, as a Catholic, conversion is a lifetime experience (even when you are born into a religion), it take time. As the grandchild of an alcoholic, I also realize that "recovery" and "relapse" are two sides of the same coin, it doesn't take much to push back over that edge into a life of sin even if you're "Saved". To me it's entirely unrealistic to be a "recovered" alcoholic, or for that matter, a "Saved Christian".
1. The Sudan doesn't have any oil.
2. Bush likes war on the cheap, hates actually hiring Americans to supply or staff the military. And all of our divisions are in Iraq and Afghanistan (hint to any Chinese out there, now would be an excellent time to invade the United States, we have no military here at all anymore).
3. Those people in the Sudan aren't True Christians (tm) and so they don't matter.
Not if you leave anything that does not fit your political message on the cutting room floor its not.
Yep, sounds like standard documentary making to me- every documentary I've ever seen did this.
I'll second this- I'm the grandchild of an alcoholic, and the misuse of sexuality DOES continue into the 2nd generation down. Among my cousins, we had incest, several single mothers, and a couple of lesbians who had been molested as children.
Nebraska?
God I hate the 20 second limit on posting. It only takes me 12 seconds to type Nebraska, typing really slowly.
But it looks like it could still be anyone's race- less than 20 Electoral College Votes separate the candidates in the lates polls, and at least three states (Ohio, Pensylvania, and Florida) have more than 20 EVs and are in a statistical dead heat.
In other news, my home state of Oregon is back in solid Kerryville- so I might end up voting Libertarian yet.
You'd think they'd be used to change by now- private industry has required their workers to be used to change for 40 years.
Thus, the obvious thing to do would be for the PSTN companies to be the ones rolling out the cable (on existing copper) and WiMAX service. There's always money to be made as the last-mile provider of information.
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they don't simply expand the pie. Let the PSTN system become broadband, let somebody else handle voice calling.
Do you honestly think that it is a bad thing if robots/computers can do the work of 25% to 75% people?
No, but it will require a basic redesign of our economic system.
Would you be happy working a job that you knew didn't have to be done by you?
Only if it was required for my survival.
Sure, it looks bad on the surface. People wouldn't be getting paychecks because of this new technology. But what if it meant that food became so cheap that feeding those people became almost free. What if it meant that their houses and clothing and anything else they needed could be created cheaply by robots?
Then the price of land would quickly rise to over $1 million/acre, unless something was done, and massive numbers of people would die of exposure and starvation for not being allowed to earn anything at all.
You would hold back this kind of progress?
No, I'm just saying it needs to be handled *carefully* and that neither of our current political parties is up to the task.
If a robot wants to do my job for me, im fine with it. I'll be out by the pool if it needs me.
Sounds good to me- and the idea is that if these things can be created this cheaply, then there is *no* reason not to use taxes to create them, and make food, clothing, shelter, clean water, and medical care (the basic 5 needs of humanity) free. All else is luxury- and occasional working can provide that.