Uhmm you can do this within terminal.
Go to the Terminal menu and select Window Settings. Grab Keyboard from the drop-down.
Click the Add button and select Home from the topmost drop-down.
For the Modifier select None.
The Action drop-down should be set to Send string to shell.
In the box type Cmd-LeftArrow.
Click OK.
Rinse and repeat for the End key.
I believe one of the "costs" of a patent should be that you are required to open source patented code once your patent has expired.
Important point. Why is it that software patents are special?
Let me illustrate my point.
If I was to gain a patent for physical object x. i would need to provide not only a description but also my plans and a working model of the object. Hence, my competitors can pull up my patent and see what I've done, but not copy it precisely because it is patented.
Why are software patents special in that only a technical description is necessary? I think they should also provide a sample of the code to prove its implimentation. Therefore when the patent expires (20 years or so) anyone could use the code.
It might make a company think twice before patenting software!
Uhmm... no. Sarge remains sarge, woody remains woody and sid remains sid. The new unstable gets a new name. I believe the pre-woody stables were called potato, slink, and hamm respectively
I was driving along Tuesday listening to NPR and all of a sudden rap started coming out my radio.
I thought this was odd, because it cut in suddenly and clear as a bell.
I then noticed that the closer I came to the Cadillac in front of me the clearer the signal became, and at certain distance from the car NPR would cut back in.
I just thought it was some new annoying technology that I hoped wouldn't catch on too soon.
It's a great way for kids to annoy other people with their music without the cops catching on and citing them for noise ordinances.
So you're saying criminals are sub-human and therefore don't deserve descent human dignities.
I agree rape is problem everywhere, but I can't understand why we can't tackle both issues as a society, and what your comment has anything to do with sending spammers to prison.
One group doesn't suffer less because we ignore the other group. They are exclusive issues of each other, and need to be dealt with in different ways.
Your illogic escapes me.
The fact remains, most people are aware of the soul-destroying issue of rape of non-criminals, and that's not a laughing matter.
But people somehow can think it's funny when it happens in prison. Not just once, mind you, but over and over again to the same individual.
Wouldn't you agree that rape causes emotional trauma?
On the outside of prisons, this kind of thing usually only happens once to person. (Note the word "usually," there are of course exceptions to any statement.)
In prison, a person is usually raped several times. Which do you think would cause a person more pain physically and emotionally? Especially, in prison where the prisoner will probably never see his torturer punished for the act. All because society thinks it's a funny issue.
Can you imagine how bitter and cynical a person could become under such circumstances?
Now take that emotionally bruised and battered individual and place them back in society. Do you think that person is going to be able to hold down a job? Probably not, and they will proably end up commiting crime again. It's called the poverty-crime cycle.
In the end both issues are important, but more can be done in the short and long term to help keep the incarcerated from raping each other, than can be done to keep free people attacking other free people. Mostly because a prison is a small self-contained world where the inmates are being watched 24-7, and the outside world is immense and it's impossible for the police to watch everybody all the time.
You shouldn't be applauding prison rape. I don't care what a person did, they don't deserve to be ass raped till they bleed, or become Bubba's for protection.
In particular spam is annoying but does getting ass raped really fit the crime? Put yourself in their shoes, your a small geeky guy faced with 5 to 7 and your choice is hook up with someone and get it up the ass by one person, or not and the whole prison will gang-rape you. Phsycologically, you've lost all control in your life and you begin to despair and lose hope. If you're lucky your suicide attempt succeeds, because if the prison guards suspect that you attempted suicide to get away from the general population, they will throw you back to wolves, where you can die a slow painfull, tortured death from the nightly ass-poundings you receive.
There were lazy people before the invention of welfare, its removal would change nothing in that respect. Its removal would only insure to punish those honestly seeking employment. It's almost impossible to find a good paying job when your holding down two other jobs to feed your family.
Finally, the funny thing about "us" is it's inclusive until you use it in conjunction with the word "them", and "them" are always a negative group of people you don't want to be included in.
You assume you have nothing in common with "them" until you lose your job in a bad economy, and then you have everthing in common. Including the self-righteous hatred of the rich.
Envy is the new populism.
That goes hand-in-hand with the Greed and Avarice of the rich. Mostly, it depends on which side of the fence your standing on.
Frankly, I believe, nobody starve and nobody should be homeless, and everyone should have access to an education. The democratic government's role is to take care of its citizens.
Consider that, simple economics states that it is unhealthy if not impossible over the long run for an economy to have full employment.
As a government:
What do you do with those unemployed?
Is it fair to let them starve and die?
What about orphans, widows or the disabled?
Maybe, we could go back to the 19th century and put children to work in dangerous sweatshops, and once you lose arm or leg it was pretty much a life pan-handling or slow starvation death.
The truth is that government welfare, spurs on the economy and taxes on corporations makes for stronger corporations.
The lie that Americans have bought hook, line and sinker is that welfare reciepients are lazy and sit at home and watch daytime telivision all day, and while some of these people do exist, the truth is that the average welfare reciepient is on welfare for an average of only three years, and is ashamed of being on welfare.
And honestly the lazy fat-asses would still be lazy-fatasses without government assistance, they would just be hungry lazy-fatasses. You can't legislate them out of existence.
"Because then you have anarchy, which might be fun in concept, but the reality is, whoever has the biggest weapon and the fewest moral compunctions wins. "
Seems like that's what we have now. Its just the ones with the biggest weapons and fewest moral compunctions feign legitimacy.
That's only because International market anarchy created by free trade, and the natural world-wide anarchy of independent government/states allows this kind of thing to happen.
My problem with outsourcing to countries like China, and India is that American workers can't compete, and never will be able to.
With ~ 1.2 billion ppl in China, and ~ 1 billion in India, it's a question of supply and demand. Companies that locate factories or outsource in either country can pay whatever they want, and abuse the workers any way they please, because they have a virtually unlimited supply of labor.
So basically, this is how it works. Living wage and better jobs leave the US, leaving the newly unemployed unable to help support the US economy. Those jobs go to countries where wages are extrememly low and will remain stable for the next century because of population.
In those countries, the wages are too low and the working conditions not conducive to self-sustained economy growth. Basically, no consumer-class is being created. Hence, the argument that we are "spreading the wealth" or "creating economies that we can sell to" are moot if not disengenious.
Meanwhile, in the US, an as of yet non-existent "new industry" is supposed come along to create "new! better!" jobs, than the ones previously displaced by outsourcing to other countries. Contenders for the "NEW and IMPROVED" job creation engine are:
The previously mentioned and dicounted increased global trade (hint: currently our biggest trade defecit is with China.)
And BioTech which is still about 5-10 years from any major breaktrough. (but who's to say we can't outsource gene-sequencing. Doh!)
Finally, the political realities in those countries are firmly anti-labor, pro-business, and without organized labor and/or enforced government protections for the laborers overseas there can be no uppward pressure on wages and working conditions.
In those countries the only answer to labor exploitation will unfortunately be civil war witch only creates more poverty, more terrorism and more exploitation.
Unrestricted free trade can become a good thing for the US and the world if implimented slowly over decades, (unfortunately, having a country whose leadership changes every four years doesn't help, as it's not conducive to long term stategies.) but that would eventually create equallities between economies, and businesses wouldn't be able to take advantage of the currently encouraged inequallities.
Basically, the CEO's want to make their companies look good at the expense of the world-wide, future and present, middle class, or more to the point are too short-sighted to see where we're headed.
Yes, but any sub-process of the original process fails to run as Administrator, or what have you.
Try this, while logged in as an unpriviledged user: 1) Go to c:\winnt\system32. 2) Right click on appwiz.cpl (Add/Remove Programs.) 3) Select "Run as..." 4) Type in an administrative username or password. 5) Now attempt to uninstall a program.
It won't let you, because the uninstaller runs as the unpriviledged user.
The su program doesn't have that issue.
Hence, in Windows you really do have to log in as Administrator to do admin tasks.
I've had two crappy jobs.
In one, I had to clean out the oil filter bags at the Ball can factory. It involved climbing into a greasy box at the top of all the machinery,3 floors up, and the hottest part of the factory, about 110* F. The box is approximately 10' deep by 30' by foot wide by 6 foot tall, and pitch black inside. So you step into one of the many hatches on the side. The first thing you notice is that there is no floor. The second thing is it's a long way down the ductwork, and probably ends in machinery that will maim you if fall didn't kill you. Next, all you had to walk on are 1 inch steel bars that run from one end to the next and all you have to hold on to are similar bars near the top. After that you notice the slippery greasy goo of the oil and its byproducts coating everything, and making it that much more treacherous. After a short bit of time the fumes start to get to you making you dizzy. And if that didn't make it dangerous enough, I had to unhook the bags weighing roughly 50-75lbs. each, carry them one handed back to the opening and drop them into a waiting plastic bag on the ground floor, and go back crawl into the box and start all over again, 50 times, each time becoming more and more coated with greasy, smelly slime.
This is also the same place where you climb into the scrap aluminum room which is about 10' wide x 30' deep and about 20' tall, which is full almost to the top with razor sharp bits of aluminum and aluminum dust, and use a snow shovel to fill canvas bags full of the shit, so the cannery can recycle it.
At another job at the local coal-burning power plant. I had the unfortunate job of cleaning up the coal dust and debris around the plant. The power plant and it's machinery were old, and often would jam up and spill mounds of coal into the building. If the jam went unnoticed for any length of time it could easily fill up 10 whole stories of the building. No joke, and to clear them out they hired teams of people to shovel the stuff into wheel barrows where it was moved to shafts that fed the machinery. Coal dust is everywhere and most people that worked this job were stupid and wouldn't wear a protective mask. (Frankly, the masks were uncomfortable, but it's still better than getting black lung.) Anyway, in this job invariably you'd come home covered head to toe in coal dust and soaked to the bone with water, it was back breaking work, and you tried to finish the job before the sun came up because otherwise it would easily reach 130* F with massive humidity. Did I fail to mention the fire hoses used to wash things.
Now you could be assigned anywhere in the plant, but the worst place, was this pit about 100' below where the trains unloaded they're coal into a bin that had a conveyor that carried the coal up to the top a tall mountain of coal.
In this pit, it's dark. The only light is from a few scattered dim argon lights set in the wall casting a strange orange hue to everything. The sound of trains roaring above and unloading the coal into the bin is near deafening. The floor is flooded 3 foot thick with water and coal dust that needs to be shoveled up, and everything is either coal black or rust brown. The raucous sound, orange lighting, sweltering heat, back-breaking work, wet misery, coal dust and extremely high humidity all coalesced to form a pretty good approximation of Hell, and because of the similarity the Pit seemed to such the life and hope right out of your chest. It doesn't get much more demoralizing than that.
Now I work doing end-user tech support at a high school. I have my own office, and get to spend at least some of my time posting on/. I don't complain much.
Mr. Bivens - "Government's big roles in the future are to make sure global demand matches supply, and to provide social insurance schemes to make sure the living standards of the workers being left behind aren't sacrificed on the altar of global progress."
That sound suspiciously like sociallism to me.
Guess what? Marx was right. Capitalism does beget socialism, esp. in a Democratic Society, and the ruling class and rich want to assure their place in the world, and stave it off.
Sociallism can be brought about peacefully through Democracy, but the rich won't allow it.
Basically, how will the brainwashed masses vote when unemployment reaches 33%?
Which is why the Bushies and Diebold are in bed together. With globalization occuring, the extreme right(read, the rich) can expect to be out of elected positions for a long time.
To stay in power they need to hijack Democracy, or else lose to the people.
My children will inherit some extremely dark times.
I don't have cable. Not because I'm poor, but because nobody needs to watch that much TV.
It rots the brain.
Also, I've heard many stories from landlords about deadbeat tenants who might have not paid in months, but they have cable-television with all the channels still.
Maybe, the much of the poor stay generally poor because they sit in front of the tube, instead of furthering themselves, and making better use of their time.
Of course the rich and tyranical prefer it that way!
Frankly, short of PBS I wouldn't mind if they did away with broadcast television.
This is why, first chance I get I'm moving to Canada! I only need 20 more points!
The ironic thing is that Canadian's have more freedoms, but live in socialistic society (UnAmerican), and don't have guaranteed freedoms written into their constitution.
"McBride: Everyone just says we're a company going out of business, and throwing a Hail Mary pass, but once we get to court, those who say that will look as strange as the Iraqi information minister on TV saying the infidels are defeated and did not get into Baghdad."
He equates Linux supporters to the Saddam's repressive regime!
I think he's got it backwards.
There's probably a disconnect somewhere in my logic, but I think that
positioning and size of the counter weight will be crucial.
The original idea is that the
counter-weight is placed in geosyncronous orbit and therefore exerts
only minimal forces on the cable, and the cable will support its own
weight.
Until you place a load on the cable, and this is where my problem
begins.
When a climber starts up the cable, there's a problem with the weight
of the climber and payload and rotational acceleration. It is
rotational acceleration and weight that will cause to counterweight
move down and eastward as the climber will resist the increased
velocity required to move away from the earth pulling on the cable and
finally moving the counterweight. The climber goes slowly up the cable,
but the cable is rooted on both ends and and forces felt on one end are
also felt on the other, in fact the forces aren't equal at both ends at
any given point on the cable but roughly the middle. (I beleive there
is a bow type woodworking clamp based on this very principle, a small
force apllied over a large distance at one end of the bow increases the
force applied to the object at the other end of the bow mechanism.)
The weight meanwhile is moving down and east, from all these
forces.; How long before counter weight crashes to earth, or the
ribbon snaps from tension?
Now obviously there are two answers to
the problem, both with the similiar problems of their own.
One is to increase the mass of the counter weight. A more massive
weight would be more feasable, because it would move less, but;
jets would have to be placed on it to maintain geosyncronous orbit,
because there aren't any forces up or down on the counter weight in
that orbit, any force, however small, will accelerate the object. One
remedy for this is for every trip up make sure there is an equally
massive trip back down again. What goes must come down. You only lose
energy on friction.
The second answer is to place the weight further out, thus
counteracting any downward pull on the cable. It will still tak an
eastward tach upon climbing, but from the climber module on out the
calble would be mosltly straight. The counter weight still moves down a
bit, but easily reagains its perpendicular stance upon the climber
reaching the top ( it would probably take on a pendulum motion at this
point as it finds its way back to equilibrium.)
The problem is if the weight were to be placed too far out, the
centripetal forces would have to be supported by the cable, all the
time, and the cable has to support the climber and ensuing forces from
climbing in addition to centripetal forces.
So the tensile strength of the cable
is what determines the size and distance of the counter weight, and the
size and speed of the payload.; Are carbon nanotubes, going
to be able to withstand all these forces over roughly 10,000km? I'm
massivley skeptical.
One Note: The exact opposite happens on the way down. A decrease in
velocity, and an increase in weight. Not to mention your working
against centripetal force on the way back, forces are reversed.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes. Remember Cybernaut? Ga, that's horrible stuff!
Uhmm you can do this within terminal. Go to the Terminal menu and select Window Settings. Grab Keyboard from the drop-down. Click the Add button and select Home from the topmost drop-down. For the Modifier select None. The Action drop-down should be set to Send string to shell. In the box type Cmd-LeftArrow. Click OK. Rinse and repeat for the End key.
Maybe you were thinking of WayBack?
Important point. Why is it that software patents are special?
Let me illustrate my point.
If I was to gain a patent for physical object x. i would need to provide not only a description but also my plans and a working model of the object. Hence, my competitors can pull up my patent and see what I've done, but not copy it precisely because it is patented.
Why are software patents special in that only a technical description is necessary? I think they should also provide a sample of the code to prove its implimentation. Therefore when the patent expires (20 years or so) anyone could use the code.
It might make a company think twice before patenting software!
Uhmm... no. Sarge remains sarge, woody remains woody and sid remains sid. The new unstable gets a new name. I believe the pre-woody stables were called potato, slink, and hamm respectively
There was the tether that held the shadow sqares in sync that fell to the ground.
That might be what you are thinking of.
This already happened to me!
I was driving along Tuesday listening to NPR and all of a sudden rap started coming out my radio.
I thought this was odd, because it cut in suddenly and clear as a bell.
I then noticed that the closer I came to the Cadillac in front of me the clearer the signal became, and at certain distance from the car NPR would cut back in.
I just thought it was some new annoying technology that I hoped wouldn't catch on too soon.
It's a great way for kids to annoy other people with their music without the cops catching on and citing them for noise ordinances.
Small world.
A program called virtual places allowed you to surf the web and meet people 9 years ago.
And then AOL bought it and killed it.
...and did you notice that most people who posted negatively, posted AC?
So you're saying criminals are sub-human and therefore don't deserve descent human dignities.
I agree rape is problem everywhere, but I can't understand why we can't tackle both issues as a society, and what your comment has anything to do with sending spammers to prison.
One group doesn't suffer less because we ignore the other group. They are exclusive issues of each other, and need to be dealt with in different ways.
Your illogic escapes me.
The fact remains, most people are aware of the soul-destroying issue of rape of non-criminals, and that's not a laughing matter.
But people somehow can think it's funny when it happens in prison. Not just once, mind you, but over and over again to the same individual.
Wouldn't you agree that rape causes emotional trauma?
On the outside of prisons, this kind of thing usually only happens once to person. (Note the word "usually," there are of course exceptions to any statement.)
In prison, a person is usually raped several times. Which do you think would cause a person more pain physically and emotionally? Especially, in prison where the prisoner will probably never see his torturer punished for the act. All because society thinks it's a funny issue.
Can you imagine how bitter and cynical a person could become under such circumstances?
Now take that emotionally bruised and battered individual and place them back in society. Do you think that person is going to be able to hold down a job? Probably not, and they will proably end up commiting crime again. It's called the poverty-crime cycle.
In the end both issues are important, but more can be done in the short and long term to help keep the incarcerated from raping each other, than can be done to keep free people attacking other free people. Mostly because a prison is a small self-contained world where the inmates are being watched 24-7, and the outside world is immense and it's impossible for the police to watch everybody all the time.
You shouldn't be applauding prison rape. I don't care what a person did, they don't deserve to be ass raped till they bleed, or become Bubba's for protection.
In particular spam is annoying but does getting ass raped really fit the crime? Put yourself in their shoes, your a small geeky guy faced with 5 to 7 and your choice is hook up with someone and get it up the ass by one person, or not and the whole prison will gang-rape you. Phsycologically, you've lost all control in your life and you begin to despair and lose hope. If you're lucky your suicide attempt succeeds, because if the prison guards suspect that you attempted suicide to get away from the general population, they will throw you back to wolves, where you can die a slow painfull, tortured death from the nightly ass-poundings you receive.
That's not even funny.
It's a serious issue.
To learn more:
http://www.spr.org
There were lazy people before the invention of welfare, its removal would change nothing in that respect. Its removal would only insure to punish those honestly seeking employment. It's almost impossible to find a good paying job when your holding down two other jobs to feed your family.
Finally, the funny thing about "us" is it's inclusive until you use it in conjunction with the word "them", and "them" are always a negative group of people you don't want to be included in.
You assume you have nothing in common with "them" until you lose your job in a bad economy, and then you have everthing in common. Including the self-righteous hatred of the rich.
Envy is the new populism.
That goes hand-in-hand with the Greed and Avarice of the rich. Mostly, it depends on which side of the fence your standing on. Frankly, I believe, nobody starve and nobody should be homeless, and everyone should have access to an education. The democratic government's role is to take care of its citizens.
Consider that, simple economics states that it is unhealthy if not impossible over the long run for an economy to have full employment.
As a government:
What do you do with those unemployed?
Is it fair to let them starve and die?
What about orphans, widows or the disabled?
Maybe, we could go back to the 19th century and put children to work in dangerous sweatshops, and once you lose arm or leg it was pretty much a life pan-handling or slow starvation death.
The truth is that government welfare, spurs on the economy and taxes on corporations makes for stronger corporations.
The lie that Americans have bought hook, line and sinker is that welfare reciepients are lazy and sit at home and watch daytime telivision all day, and while some of these people do exist, the truth is that the average welfare reciepient is on welfare for an average of only three years, and is ashamed of being on welfare.
And honestly the lazy fat-asses would still be lazy-fatasses without government assistance, they would just be hungry lazy-fatasses. You can't legislate them out of existence.
"Because then you have anarchy, which might be fun in concept, but the reality is, whoever has the biggest weapon and the fewest moral compunctions wins. "
Seems like that's what we have now. Its just the ones with the biggest weapons and fewest moral compunctions feign legitimacy.
That's only because International market anarchy created by free trade, and the natural world-wide anarchy of independent government/states allows this kind of thing to happen.
My problem with outsourcing to countries like China, and India is that American workers can't compete, and never will be able to.
With ~ 1.2 billion ppl in China, and ~ 1 billion in India, it's a question of supply and demand. Companies that locate factories or outsource in either country can pay whatever they want, and abuse the workers any way they please, because they have a virtually unlimited supply of labor.
So basically, this is how it works. Living wage and better jobs leave the US, leaving the newly unemployed unable to help support the US economy. Those jobs go to countries where wages are extrememly low and will remain stable for the next century because of population.
In those countries, the wages are too low and the working conditions not conducive to self-sustained economy growth. Basically, no consumer-class is being created. Hence, the argument that we are "spreading the wealth" or "creating economies that we can sell to" are moot if not disengenious.
Meanwhile, in the US, an as of yet non-existent "new industry" is supposed come along to create "new! better!" jobs, than the ones previously displaced by outsourcing to other countries. Contenders for the "NEW and IMPROVED" job creation engine are:
The previously mentioned and dicounted increased global trade (hint: currently our biggest trade defecit is with China.)
And BioTech which is still about 5-10 years from any major breaktrough. (but who's to say we can't outsource gene-sequencing. Doh!)
Finally, the political realities in those countries are firmly anti-labor, pro-business, and without organized labor and/or enforced government protections for the laborers overseas there can be no uppward pressure on wages and working conditions.
In those countries the only answer to labor exploitation will unfortunately be civil war witch only creates more poverty, more terrorism and more exploitation.
Unrestricted free trade can become a good thing for the US and the world if implimented slowly over decades, (unfortunately, having a country whose leadership changes every four years doesn't help, as it's not conducive to long term stategies.) but that would eventually create equallities between economies, and businesses wouldn't be able to take advantage of the currently encouraged inequallities.
Basically, the CEO's want to make their companies look good at the expense of the world-wide, future and present, middle class, or more to the point are too short-sighted to see where we're headed.
Yes, but any sub-process of the original process fails to run as Administrator, or what have you.
Try this, while logged in as an unpriviledged user:
1) Go to c:\winnt\system32.
2) Right click on appwiz.cpl (Add/Remove Programs.)
3) Select "Run as..."
4) Type in an administrative username or password.
5) Now attempt to uninstall a program.
It won't let you, because the uninstaller runs as the unpriviledged user.
The su program doesn't have that issue.
Hence, in Windows you really do have to log in as Administrator to do admin tasks.
I've had two crappy jobs. In one, I had to clean out the oil filter bags at the Ball can factory. It involved climbing into a greasy box at the top of all the machinery,3 floors up, and the hottest part of the factory, about 110* F. The box is approximately 10' deep by 30' by foot wide by 6 foot tall, and pitch black inside. So you step into one of the many hatches on the side. The first thing you notice is that there is no floor. The second thing is it's a long way down the ductwork, and probably ends in machinery that will maim you if fall didn't kill you. Next, all you had to walk on are 1 inch steel bars that run from one end to the next and all you have to hold on to are similar bars near the top. After that you notice the slippery greasy goo of the oil and its byproducts coating everything, and making it that much more treacherous. After a short bit of time the fumes start to get to you making you dizzy. And if that didn't make it dangerous enough, I had to unhook the bags weighing roughly 50-75lbs. each, carry them one handed back to the opening and drop them into a waiting plastic bag on the ground floor, and go back crawl into the box and start all over again, 50 times, each time becoming more and more coated with greasy, smelly slime.
/. I don't complain much.
This is also the same place where you climb into the scrap aluminum room which is about 10' wide x 30' deep and about 20' tall, which is full almost to the top with razor sharp bits of aluminum and aluminum dust, and use a snow shovel to fill canvas bags full of the shit, so the cannery can recycle it.
At another job at the local coal-burning power plant. I had the unfortunate job of cleaning up the coal dust and debris around the plant. The power plant and it's machinery were old, and often would jam up and spill mounds of coal into the building. If the jam went unnoticed for any length of time it could easily fill up 10 whole stories of the building. No joke, and to clear them out they hired teams of people to shovel the stuff into wheel barrows where it was moved to shafts that fed the machinery. Coal dust is everywhere and most people that worked this job were stupid and wouldn't wear a protective mask. (Frankly, the masks were uncomfortable, but it's still better than getting black lung.) Anyway, in this job invariably you'd come home covered head to toe in coal dust and soaked to the bone with water, it was back breaking work, and you tried to finish the job before the sun came up because otherwise it would easily reach 130* F with massive humidity. Did I fail to mention the fire hoses used to wash things.
Now you could be assigned anywhere in the plant, but the worst place, was this pit about 100' below where the trains unloaded they're coal into a bin that had a conveyor that carried the coal up to the top a tall mountain of coal.
In this pit, it's dark. The only light is from a few scattered dim argon lights set in the wall casting a strange orange hue to everything. The sound of trains roaring above and unloading the coal into the bin is near deafening. The floor is flooded 3 foot thick with water and coal dust that needs to be shoveled up, and everything is either coal black or rust brown. The raucous sound, orange lighting, sweltering heat, back-breaking work, wet misery, coal dust and extremely high humidity all coalesced to form a pretty good approximation of Hell, and because of the similarity the Pit seemed to such the life and hope right out of your chest. It doesn't get much more demoralizing than that.
Now I work doing end-user tech support at a high school. I have my own office, and get to spend at least some of my time posting on
Mr. Bivens - "Government's big roles in the future are to make sure global demand matches supply, and to provide social insurance schemes to make sure the living standards of the workers being left behind aren't sacrificed on the altar of global progress."
That sound suspiciously like sociallism to me.
Guess what? Marx was right. Capitalism does beget socialism, esp. in a Democratic Society, and the ruling class and rich want to assure their place in the world, and stave it off.
Sociallism can be brought about peacefully through Democracy, but the rich won't allow it.
Basically, how will the brainwashed masses vote when unemployment reaches 33%?
Which is why the Bushies and Diebold are in bed together. With globalization occuring, the extreme right(read, the rich) can expect to be out of elected positions for a long time.
To stay in power they need to hijack Democracy, or else lose to the people.
My children will inherit some extremely dark times.
Here's a direct link to a Firebird 7.0 Mirror of the zip file.
MozillaFirebird-0.7-win32.zip
I sit on a chaise lounge. You insensitive clod!
I don't have cable. Not because I'm poor, but because nobody needs to watch that much TV. It rots the brain. Also, I've heard many stories from landlords about deadbeat tenants who might have not paid in months, but they have cable-television with all the channels still. Maybe, the much of the poor stay generally poor because they sit in front of the tube, instead of furthering themselves, and making better use of their time. Of course the rich and tyranical prefer it that way! Frankly, short of PBS I wouldn't mind if they did away with broadcast television.
This is why, first chance I get I'm moving to Canada! I only need 20 more points! The ironic thing is that Canadian's have more freedoms, but live in socialistic society (UnAmerican), and don't have guaranteed freedoms written into their constitution.
"McBride: Everyone just says we're a company going out of business, and throwing a Hail Mary pass, but once we get to court, those who say that will look as strange as the Iraqi information minister on TV saying the infidels are defeated and did not get into Baghdad."
He equates Linux supporters to the Saddam's repressive regime! I think he's got it backwards.
There's probably a disconnect somewhere in my logic, but I think that positioning and size of the counter weight will be crucial.
The original idea is that the counter-weight is placed in geosyncronous orbit and therefore exerts only minimal forces on the cable, and the cable will support its own weight.
Until you place a load on the cable, and this is where my problem begins.
When a climber starts up the cable, there's a problem with the weight of the climber and payload and rotational acceleration. It is rotational acceleration and weight that will cause to counterweight move down and eastward as the climber will resist the increased velocity required to move away from the earth pulling on the cable and finally moving the counterweight. The climber goes slowly up the cable, but the cable is rooted on both ends and and forces felt on one end are also felt on the other, in fact the forces aren't equal at both ends at any given point on the cable but roughly the middle. (I beleive there is a bow type woodworking clamp based on this very principle, a small force apllied over a large distance at one end of the bow increases the force applied to the object at the other end of the bow mechanism.)
The weight meanwhile is moving down and east, from all these forces.; How long before counter weight crashes to earth, or the ribbon snaps from tension?
Now obviously there are two answers to the problem, both with the similiar problems of their own.
One is to increase the mass of the counter weight. A more massive weight would be more feasable, because it would move less, but; jets would have to be placed on it to maintain geosyncronous orbit, because there aren't any forces up or down on the counter weight in that orbit, any force, however small, will accelerate the object. One remedy for this is for every trip up make sure there is an equally massive trip back down again. What goes must come down. You only lose energy on friction.
The second answer is to place the weight further out, thus counteracting any downward pull on the cable. It will still tak an eastward tach upon climbing, but from the climber module on out the calble would be mosltly straight. The counter weight still moves down a bit, but easily reagains its perpendicular stance upon the climber reaching the top ( it would probably take on a pendulum motion at this point as it finds its way back to equilibrium.)
The problem is if the weight were to be placed too far out, the centripetal forces would have to be supported by the cable, all the time, and the cable has to support the climber and ensuing forces from climbing in addition to centripetal forces.
So the tensile strength of the cable is what determines the size and distance of the counter weight, and the size and speed of the payload.; Are carbon nanotubes, going to be able to withstand all these forces over roughly 10,000km? I'm massivley skeptical.
One Note: The exact opposite happens on the way down. A decrease in velocity, and an increase in weight. Not to mention your working against centripetal force on the way back, forces are reversed.