Isn't it amazing....we can build rovers on a shoe string budget (compaired to the shuttle & ISS)
but the shuttle can't take off in rain, foam strikes can destroy it.
Maybe they should cut the shuttle budget, and make these idiots think outside the box on how to
do with less.
Kudos to the NASA department that came up with the rovers. Personally, with robotics increasing in
their ability to do their jobs, I'd prefer to spend the money on rovers than to spend it on sending
men to mars.
LOL.........you think THESE B.A. machines are "bad", you should have been around in the 70's and early 80's with the old
Smith & Wesson model 900 Breathalyzer machines. We use to call them "dial a drunk" machines because they were so
inaccurate. But, back then, lawyers were not as "sharp" as they are now. We could dial in a drunk, just by screwing around
with the needle. Check out a picture of them on the web, then you will see. They had two vials of a light yellow acid. You
break the top off of one, set it in the machine with a tube in the top. You purge the cylinder and then light shines between each
tube of liquid, a sensor picks up the light between the two. You have a drunk (ok, an "aledged" drunk) blow into the tube filling the
cylinder. You turn a knob and the breath sample is bubbled into the liquid with the tube in it. After a few minutes, you hit the button
and the light comes on. The alcohol turns the yellow liquid a lighter color, depending on the alcohol in the sample. This causes the
needle to unbalance. You run a knob up until the needle is centered and the scale was "calibrated" to show the alcohol amount.
Now, if you were not standing dead center over the needle, you could "fudge" the reading one way or the other. Hence the name
"dial a drunk".
Oh goody! They got their BS line about global warming in with the
first sentence!
"Man made" global warming is a FARCE! Hello? the earth has been warming
for years because the HEAT(energy) from the sun has gone UP.
If we are in such a "crisis", explain how they found an ABANDONED silver
mine way up north in Greenland that has been buried in ice for hundreds
of years? Gee, guess what....the earth was AT LEAST this warm way bank
before we even had cars, smokestacks, pollution, humans contaminating the
world bla bla bla.
All this global warming BS is just another attempt by the anti-capitalist
to screw over everyone making them feel bad.
Screw you.....freeze to death in the dark you environmentalist bastards!
The theoretical pressure wave from an atomic explosion in "theory" would probably
generate enough energy to nudge one by a few degrees, which if exploded far away,
should do the trick. The only problem I see, is that the "theory" is by scientist
and engineers....the same engineers that say a bumblebee can't fly...in theory LOL.
Ok, (at least in the states) we are a LAWSUIT happy country.
Someone who has numerous DUI's buys one of these things, goes
to a bar, gets drunk, gets in one, and it malfunctions. Gets
into an accident, or gets pulled over and then sues Nissan
for a "defective" product. Can't you see the number of ambulance
chasing lawyers running around for this one? Hello John Edwards!
Plus, taking personal responsibility aside, do you want the government
forcing more rules on you anyway? There are too many fricking laws
on the books now that are not enforced.
the conspiracy nuts will be out feeding on this one.
I can't believe that in this day and age, people still refuse to
believe that we never landed on the moon. I'll tell you what.
If I could arrange a meeting with someone who believes it was a
hoax, and Jim Lovell (Apollo 13), I'd pay 100 bucks to see him
punch the jackass in the face after the nut tells him that it
was all a hoax. Lovell & his crew almost DIED in space because of
the explosion.
Plus, if it were a hoax, explain all the moon rocks, the returning
spacecraft splash down etc. The problem with a conspiracy such as
landing on the moon would require hundreds of thousands of people to
keep their mouths shut. Sorry, this conspiracy like all others
is debunked.
If you are
GENETICALLY predisposed to be at a greater risk for cancer, hell, just about anything will screw
you up. Hell, my grandfather went to france in WW1 in 1918 and started smoking unfiltered camel
cigarettes and continued to smoke them until 1971 when the doctor said that the surgeon general
keep poking his nose around and wanted people to quit. My grandfather died in 1991 at the age
of NINETY SEVEN with absolutely NO cancer!
I have the MSDS (materal safety data sheets) on the consumable supplies that are used in
laser printers & copiers. They have no risks, unless you put the dust from the toner in an
enclosed area and set it on fire....it might blow up (similar to a grain dust explosion).
Once again, some idiot researcher has come up with a study to back some more studies so he
can continue to suckle off of the teat of the government!
You'll get more "health risks" on a copier or printer by burning your f**king fingers on the fuser
unit, trying to remove a paper jam.
I've worked on officer copiers,printers, fax machines since 1981. I've probably breathed in more toner & dust than
any of you EVER will. I don't have ANY health problems what so ever! Until 3 years ago, I had BAD hay fever, but the
dust & toner NEVER affected me, other than the occasional sneeze, blow your nose and your handkerchief comes out a little
black. You need to read the material safety data sheets on toner. IT IS NOT hazardous, unless you snort the damn stuff.
More nanny state BS...
how the ACLU can protest this. At least in my state, driving an automobile is not a RIGHT, but a
privilege granted by the department of revenue. With that privilege comes certain restrictions.
I don't know how it is any "invasion of privacy" or some other crap. All they are doing is scanning
the license to see if there are any stolen vehicles or warrants. Don't give me the "probable cause"
argument either...it won't fly. Once again, the ACLU is looking out for the bad guy at the expense of
the good guys.
was a tin-foil hat NUT.
Any conspiracy you would place in front of him, if it had to do with
a conservative of any kind, he was for it.
He was a press secretary for Kennedy & Johnson, and apparently LOVED the
spotlight.
The only creditable thing he ever did in his life was keep his promise to
move to France if Bush were elected.
I can see it now........iPhones being used in a terrorist threat LOL.
Geez, just lock down the system better. I keep the wi-fi at our office
locked with MAC addresses. You can always tell when a salesman gets a
new "gadget". I get a call about not being able to connect to the wi-fi.
HFCS is the main culprit. It's CHEAP to produce/use.
If you are old enough (like me) to remember what soda-pop use to taste
like with good old cane sugar, try a bottle of Dr. Pepper from the only
bottling plant that still uses Imperial cane sugar. http://www.dublindrpepper.com/
Then, after tasting it, take a swig of Dr. Pepper using HFCS. You will definitely
taste the difference.
Is that the world is full of idiots.
Anyone dumb enough to pay $500.00 for a glorified ipod/cell phone, especially
version 1.0 is an idiot. Everyone knows that version 2.0 is around the corner.
I think this is more of the "keep up with the Jones's" than anything else. If/when
I see someone flash one of those things in my face, I'll just laugh and say, so
you are one of the 525,000 idiots that bought an overpriced ipod. Steve Jobs is
laughing all the way to the bank.
A week or so. What's the big deal about standing in line for a week, other than to say "Look at me,
I'm an idiot because I waste my time to stand in line for a stupid cell phone".
I just don't get it....wait a few weeks, month or more for the hype to wear down, and the inventory to
back up and the price will come down. Wait til winter or spring 08 for version 2.0 and maybe it will have
the high speed, cut & paste, removable battery, removable memory card, 3rd party apps...etc...
with this, is that these people will only tape the "end" of a so called problem.
Let's say, that a suspect fights with police, and is kicking and screaming, then,
two police tackle and start to cuff him, then, the tape starts rolling. All you
see is the police trying to cuff a suspect. The problem I have with this is just
like I have with so called racial profiling tallies. Let's say you are a white
police office who predominately works a black area of a city. Now, the MAJORITY
of the people you come into contact with are black. So, when the results come
out, the only thing you will hear on tv, radio, newspaper, and black leaders is
that 87% of the time, this white office is stopping black people. He's a racist.
They won't say where the officer works or other details of the reports. I know a
LOT of officers who "fudge" these reports, just because they work a predominately
minority section of town and are in fear of being labeled racist.
I don't care what color your skin is, if you are doing something wrong in a car,
such as broken tail lights, no headlights, dark tinted windows, license plate expired,
speeding, weaving etc.... you should be stopped, regardless of color.
These video cameras will create the same problem. Only telling HALF the story.
I keep my Dell E1505 on "high performance" screen to 100%. Using sleep mode, and using the computer
5-6 times a day, 10-15 minutes at a time, I still have 50-60% power left at the end of the day.
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Isn't it amazing....we can build rovers on a shoe string budget (compaired to the shuttle & ISS) but the shuttle can't take off in rain, foam strikes can destroy it. Maybe they should cut the shuttle budget, and make these idiots think outside the box on how to do with less. Kudos to the NASA department that came up with the rovers. Personally, with robotics increasing in their ability to do their jobs, I'd prefer to spend the money on rovers than to spend it on sending men to mars.
Why do you hate America so much?
LOL.........you think THESE B.A. machines are "bad", you should have been around in the 70's and early 80's with the old Smith & Wesson model 900 Breathalyzer machines. We use to call them "dial a drunk" machines because they were so inaccurate. But, back then, lawyers were not as "sharp" as they are now. We could dial in a drunk, just by screwing around with the needle. Check out a picture of them on the web, then you will see. They had two vials of a light yellow acid. You break the top off of one, set it in the machine with a tube in the top. You purge the cylinder and then light shines between each tube of liquid, a sensor picks up the light between the two. You have a drunk (ok, an "aledged" drunk) blow into the tube filling the cylinder. You turn a knob and the breath sample is bubbled into the liquid with the tube in it. After a few minutes, you hit the button and the light comes on. The alcohol turns the yellow liquid a lighter color, depending on the alcohol in the sample. This causes the needle to unbalance. You run a knob up until the needle is centered and the scale was "calibrated" to show the alcohol amount. Now, if you were not standing dead center over the needle, you could "fudge" the reading one way or the other. Hence the name "dial a drunk".
Oh goody! They got their BS line about global warming in with the first sentence! "Man made" global warming is a FARCE! Hello? the earth has been warming for years because the HEAT(energy) from the sun has gone UP. If we are in such a "crisis", explain how they found an ABANDONED silver mine way up north in Greenland that has been buried in ice for hundreds of years? Gee, guess what....the earth was AT LEAST this warm way bank before we even had cars, smokestacks, pollution, humans contaminating the world bla bla bla. All this global warming BS is just another attempt by the anti-capitalist to screw over everyone making them feel bad. Screw you.....freeze to death in the dark you environmentalist bastards!
Oil & water don't mix! I've been told that a million times.........LOL
The theoretical pressure wave from an atomic explosion in "theory" would probably generate enough energy to nudge one by a few degrees, which if exploded far away, should do the trick. The only problem I see, is that the "theory" is by scientist and engineers....the same engineers that say a bumblebee can't fly...in theory LOL.
Ok, (at least in the states) we are a LAWSUIT happy country. Someone who has numerous DUI's buys one of these things, goes to a bar, gets drunk, gets in one, and it malfunctions. Gets into an accident, or gets pulled over and then sues Nissan for a "defective" product. Can't you see the number of ambulance chasing lawyers running around for this one? Hello John Edwards! Plus, taking personal responsibility aside, do you want the government forcing more rules on you anyway? There are too many fricking laws on the books now that are not enforced.
the conspiracy nuts will be out feeding on this one. I can't believe that in this day and age, people still refuse to believe that we never landed on the moon. I'll tell you what. If I could arrange a meeting with someone who believes it was a hoax, and Jim Lovell (Apollo 13), I'd pay 100 bucks to see him punch the jackass in the face after the nut tells him that it was all a hoax. Lovell & his crew almost DIED in space because of the explosion. Plus, if it were a hoax, explain all the moon rocks, the returning spacecraft splash down etc. The problem with a conspiracy such as landing on the moon would require hundreds of thousands of people to keep their mouths shut. Sorry, this conspiracy like all others is debunked.
If you are GENETICALLY predisposed to be at a greater risk for cancer, hell, just about anything will screw you up. Hell, my grandfather went to france in WW1 in 1918 and started smoking unfiltered camel cigarettes and continued to smoke them until 1971 when the doctor said that the surgeon general keep poking his nose around and wanted people to quit. My grandfather died in 1991 at the age of NINETY SEVEN with absolutely NO cancer! I have the MSDS (materal safety data sheets) on the consumable supplies that are used in laser printers & copiers. They have no risks, unless you put the dust from the toner in an enclosed area and set it on fire....it might blow up (similar to a grain dust explosion). Once again, some idiot researcher has come up with a study to back some more studies so he can continue to suckle off of the teat of the government! You'll get more "health risks" on a copier or printer by burning your f**king fingers on the fuser unit, trying to remove a paper jam.
I've worked on officer copiers,printers, fax machines since 1981. I've probably breathed in more toner & dust than any of you EVER will. I don't have ANY health problems what so ever! Until 3 years ago, I had BAD hay fever, but the dust & toner NEVER affected me, other than the occasional sneeze, blow your nose and your handkerchief comes out a little black. You need to read the material safety data sheets on toner. IT IS NOT hazardous, unless you snort the damn stuff. More nanny state BS...
how the ACLU can protest this. At least in my state, driving an automobile is not a RIGHT, but a privilege granted by the department of revenue. With that privilege comes certain restrictions. I don't know how it is any "invasion of privacy" or some other crap. All they are doing is scanning the license to see if there are any stolen vehicles or warrants. Don't give me the "probable cause" argument either...it won't fly. Once again, the ACLU is looking out for the bad guy at the expense of the good guys.
was a tin-foil hat NUT. Any conspiracy you would place in front of him, if it had to do with a conservative of any kind, he was for it. He was a press secretary for Kennedy & Johnson, and apparently LOVED the spotlight. The only creditable thing he ever did in his life was keep his promise to move to France if Bush were elected.
I for one welcome our new robotic overloads :)
I can see it now........iPhones being used in a terrorist threat LOL. Geez, just lock down the system better. I keep the wi-fi at our office locked with MAC addresses. You can always tell when a salesman gets a new "gadget". I get a call about not being able to connect to the wi-fi.
HFCS is the main culprit. It's CHEAP to produce/use. If you are old enough (like me) to remember what soda-pop use to taste like with good old cane sugar, try a bottle of Dr. Pepper from the only bottling plant that still uses Imperial cane sugar. http://www.dublindrpepper.com/ Then, after tasting it, take a swig of Dr. Pepper using HFCS. You will definitely taste the difference.
of an iPhone I've seen yet! Overpriced, overhyped
After all, it's still a Mac.
with a Diet Mt. Dew...had to give up the regular kind, but I can't go without the caffine in the morning, or it is HEADACHE city!
This surprises anyone how?
Is that the world is full of idiots. Anyone dumb enough to pay $500.00 for a glorified ipod/cell phone, especially version 1.0 is an idiot. Everyone knows that version 2.0 is around the corner. I think this is more of the "keep up with the Jones's" than anything else. If/when I see someone flash one of those things in my face, I'll just laugh and say, so you are one of the 525,000 idiots that bought an overpriced ipod. Steve Jobs is laughing all the way to the bank.
should be is ANYTHING in electronic commerce safe?
A week or so. What's the big deal about standing in line for a week, other than to say "Look at me, I'm an idiot because I waste my time to stand in line for a stupid cell phone". I just don't get it....wait a few weeks, month or more for the hype to wear down, and the inventory to back up and the price will come down. Wait til winter or spring 08 for version 2.0 and maybe it will have the high speed, cut & paste, removable battery, removable memory card, 3rd party apps...etc...
For buying version 1.0 of anything
with this, is that these people will only tape the "end" of a so called problem. Let's say, that a suspect fights with police, and is kicking and screaming, then, two police tackle and start to cuff him, then, the tape starts rolling. All you see is the police trying to cuff a suspect. The problem I have with this is just like I have with so called racial profiling tallies. Let's say you are a white police office who predominately works a black area of a city. Now, the MAJORITY of the people you come into contact with are black. So, when the results come out, the only thing you will hear on tv, radio, newspaper, and black leaders is that 87% of the time, this white office is stopping black people. He's a racist. They won't say where the officer works or other details of the reports. I know a LOT of officers who "fudge" these reports, just because they work a predominately minority section of town and are in fear of being labeled racist. I don't care what color your skin is, if you are doing something wrong in a car, such as broken tail lights, no headlights, dark tinted windows, license plate expired, speeding, weaving etc.... you should be stopped, regardless of color. These video cameras will create the same problem. Only telling HALF the story.
I keep my Dell E1505 on "high performance" screen to 100%. Using sleep mode, and using the computer 5-6 times a day, 10-15 minutes at a time, I still have 50-60% power left at the end of the day.