IMHO organised religion should be prohibited on the moon. However, as we know all too well, various "world leaders" and terrorists, think that they hear their god talking to them and seem to enjoy misinterpreting their religious guide books. (Books and scripts which were written thousands of years ago, often in the same part of the world, funnily enough, translated, ammended, adapted and forked). No doubt they will insist on taking their gods to the moon.
I've got nothing against people having faith or belief in something but I do have a problem with people trying to force those beliefs on to others. If organised religions start to become polular on the moon, will we see a repeat of the past few thousands of years on Earth?
"So that's how Moses managed to cross the Red Sea ?!"
That's an interesting idea. But if the reaction was too fast and someone rubbed two sticks together, he could have gone in to orbit nearly 2000 years before Sputnik. (If the red sea was blood that is).
Maybe he ran a ferry service. Except on Sunday's of course. And I used to think that the red stuff the hull was coated with was anti-fouling paint.
How about tags that cannot be so easily swapped? RFID tags could be placed on the passengers forehead with glue that can only be removed after 12 hours or maybe with a glue disolving, tag removing gun.
Or how about RFID clothing. Passengers normally wear clothes, which, lets face it, could be composed of explosive or accelerant fibres, or stuff that decomposes in to toxic gas after 3 hours. So, build a load of changing rooms at each airport and exchange the passengers clothes for a type approved travel suit, with enhanced safety features, like a built in smoke hood, reflective patches and of course, RFID tags to help rescue them in an emergency.
The passengers own clothes would be scanned for dangerous substances, drugs, etc before sealing in fire retardant bags for stowage on the flight.
If the passenger looks like they could be dangerous, like they might overpower someone with their hands, they could be tranquilised prior to flight.
Thinking laterally, why not combine some of these ideas?
Anethetise passengers, strip them down, scan them, pack them in fire retardant survival packs, then load them on to a cargo plane. Problem solved.
How true. One day I tuned in to Planet Rock and they played several tracks I hadn't heard twice in three days. I used to think they had a juke box with 5 compilation CD's, one for each decade 60's, 70's, 80's 90's.
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A buffer overflow vulnerability in the McAfee Virus Scan Engine may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on an affected system. Because the vulnerability exists in a core component, a number of different McAfee products are affected.
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/361180
1. a view, esp through a narrow avenue of trees, buildings, etc , or such a pasage or avenue itself. 2. a comprehensive mental view of a distant time or a lengthy series of events.
VISTA -
acronym for Volunteers in Service to America; an organisation of volunteers established by the Federal government to assist the poor.
Okay, I don't actually believe that systems are consciously projecting their thoughts in to your mind. But it does freak people out slightly when you expect a system to do something nobody expected - then it does. Colleagues start wondering if you're psychic or something. I think if you spend enough time looking at stuff on your systems, you get a feel for what may happen and when, even if you can't offer a great deal of proof.
Ever heard a tune in your mind then switched on the radio and it was there? Maybe your hearing is better than you think. Sometimes, in buildings really close to powerful transmitters, otherwise inanimate objects demodulate the broadcasts in to audible sound.
A colleague had a web page working for IE 6.x He was puzzled as to why certain features would not parse with Firefox, rendering form submission useless. No suprise then, given that he verified his work using IE 6.x I recommended that he validate the html using the W3C validator. The validator advised that there was a problem with his header. I suggested that he follow the proscribed format for his header following W3C guidance. My colleague followed that advice and solved his problem in 5 or 10 minutes.
W3C gets my vote for enabling html to work across platforms. If only more developers would use it.
Well almost. Given the increase in data transfer since broadband became commonplace, 24TB is probably just the requirement for Vista's swap partition;-)
Thanks for another excellent and detailed account. Although I know that bone can self repair, I had no idea how well it could adapt to a non-biological implant. Now that I think of it, I have some pins (screws) in place of roots anyway.
I expect biological implants to be trialed at some point in the next few decades. Here I'm refering to teeth propagated from the patients own DNA then implanted. This would seem a lot more expensive and complicated than non-bio implants though.
Plasma torches are used for cutting metal. I have a lot of metal in my teeth (not like jaws though). I wonder what would happen if plasma was used to remove or clean up an amalgum filling. Might I expect the release of mercury vapour?
Why is it that in the 21st century, lead for solder is being legislated against and yet dental surgeries insist on using mercury for fillings. I don't understand.
Why are implants made with metal screws being drilled in to the jawbone? What happens if a tooth is punched out? Could this lead to jaw damage? Infection of the jawbone?
Maybe there will be better alternatives in 30 years, when/if the UK catches up, if we have any dentists left that is.
I grew up with science fiction. Reality is such a disappointment.
Smelliest substance known to man, I think this is present in rotting meat. It is used to give natural gas a distinct and unpleasant smell. Also found in skunk's spray.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethyl_mercaptan
Back in the 1980's if you built a crystal set (basic diode detector radio receiver) Radio Moscow tended to come in loud and clear. They had a major presence on the Shortwave bands.
Nowadays it seems like whatever shortwave broadcast band you tune around, there is an English broadcast from Radio China International. They seem to have invested really heavily in this propaganda tool, as I can't recall anything like it since Radio Moscow of the original cold war. Although it doesn't seem quite as blatant as Radio Moscow or Radio Albania, if the USA or UK are in the media due to some potential controversy, RCI seems to enjoy making the most of it.
So, China now manufacture pretty much everything we buy or own due to outsourcing.
Has anybody else noticed what's happening? Where are we heading?
"The protests of 1989 resulted in the killing of Chinese protestors in the streets to the west of the square and adjacent areas. Some sources (Graham Earnshaw and Columbia Journal Review) claim that none died on the square itself. Opponents of the Chinese democracy movement object to the Western Media's labelling of the Tiananmen Massacre, the event known to the Chinese simply as the June Fourth or June Fourth movement, and June Fourth Incident. However, Chinese expatriates that escaped the tyranny after the killing said that the numbers ended up being in the thousands. This was a combination of the hundreds killed on the spot and the miniature purge that followed. These stories are confirmed by intelligence in the country as well.
[edit]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianamen_square
The suggestion that radio active waste be dumped in Tropical Rain Forests, would likely meet favour with much of the pharmaceutical industry. Tropical rain forests, most noteably the Amazon rain forest, have an abundance of natural medicines. Perhaps some pharmaceutical giants feel that they have a vested interest in the destruction of these sources of natural medicines. That would be a real shame. Perhaps they should be analysing these natural medicines with a view to propagating them locally, rather than denying their existance and selling dangerous artificial medicines to people who live in the rain forests.
In any case, the motivation to slash and burn forest areas has not yet been superceded. So long as it is profitable (and as long as there is little alternative for the homeless and starving), Loggers, developers and the poor, will not be stopped by low level radiation. Only lethal radiation would be effective and that in itself may be counter productive.
Look at it another way. Ultrasonic pest deterants are only effective as long as there is insufficient motivation for rodents to endure the discomfort. If you leave your meatfeast pizza on the floor, mice will endure the discomfort and eat it anyway.
But yes, if only the native inhabitants eg., Amazon indians, were left and incomers were taken out of these areas, the future prospects for nature might be better.
"Although lately WarioWare Touched and Meteos have taken the place of my usual RPG travel companions. What games will you be playing while dreading arriving at your parents house?"
Chaffing between the legs, commonly known as "jock-rot", is extremely unpleasant and painful. Petroleum jelly (e.g. Vaseline - TM) applied on the fleshy bits that rub against each other will help a great deal. (between legs and testicles, (if you have them), and between the buttocks - no jokes please). Small tins are available for protecting lips. These weigh hardly anything and can save you from a lot of suffering. Beware of talc. Talc may be okay for feet but it can make jock-rot worse. If you inadvertantly mix talc with petroleum jelly you get a very fine grinding paste. Trust me - it rubs away the outer skin between the legs - very nasty!
On the subject of staying cool, a shemargh is brilliant. The native populace developed this clothing over centuries. You can use it too. Beware of wiping off sun protection cream. A walking stick strap or rubbing your face with the back of your hand will reduce or remove sun protection. Take care to reapply protective cream unless you want a nasty burn.
You might be able to walk around topless in Brittany (France) with care (I'm not recommending this). I found bare arms in the San Francisco Giants baseball stadium got painfully burned red during a game. All for the sake of not digging out some sun protection cream. (Well I was going to dig it out but we were in a hurry..)
Lightweights (green) were okay at around 90 deg F but I can't say how they cope in 130 deg F at blocking out IR and UV. I was extremely impressed with a long sleeve Lowe Alpine dry flo TM vest. Although it was black, it was amazingly effective at keeping the sun off and regulating body temperature. At night it was just a case of putting on a goretex jacket and a balaclava helmet while walking.
When active systems fail, you need to rely on passive systems. Keep it simple.
Re wearing a kilt - it might be good for catching locusts...
Don't even think about wearing a kilt in the area of Tyndrum in Scotland. The midges there don't know that jungle formula insect repellant is supposed to ward them off. If you happen to go camping there, make sure you have mosquito mesh in your tent. If you go walking there , take a mosi neat to wear over your head.
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IMHO organised religion should be prohibited on the moon. However, as we know all too well, various "world leaders" and terrorists, think that they hear their god talking to them and seem to enjoy misinterpreting their religious guide books. (Books and scripts which were written thousands of years ago, often in the same part of the world, funnily enough, translated, ammended, adapted and forked). No doubt they will insist on taking their gods to the moon.
I've got nothing against people having faith or belief in something but I do have a problem with people trying to force those beliefs on to others. If organised religions start to become polular on the moon, will we see a repeat of the past few thousands of years on Earth?
"So that's how Moses managed to cross the Red Sea ?!"
That's an interesting idea. But if the reaction was too fast and someone rubbed two sticks together, he could have gone in to orbit nearly 2000 years before Sputnik. (If the red sea was blood that is).
Maybe he ran a ferry service. Except on Sunday's of course.
And I used to think that the red stuff the hull was coated with was anti-fouling paint.
Well, if England gets it, then I'm moving to Scotland.
How about tags that cannot be so easily swapped? RFID tags could be placed on the passengers forehead with glue that can only be removed after 12 hours or maybe with a glue disolving, tag removing gun.
Or how about RFID clothing. Passengers normally wear clothes, which, lets face it, could be composed of explosive or accelerant fibres, or stuff that decomposes in to toxic gas after 3 hours. So, build a load of changing rooms at each airport and exchange the passengers clothes for a type approved travel suit, with enhanced safety features, like a built in smoke hood, reflective patches and of course, RFID tags to help rescue them in an emergency.
The passengers own clothes would be scanned for dangerous substances, drugs, etc before sealing in fire retardant bags for stowage on the flight.
If the passenger looks like they could be dangerous, like they might overpower someone with their hands, they could be tranquilised prior to flight.
Thinking laterally, why not combine some of these ideas?
Anethetise passengers, strip them down, scan them, pack them in fire retardant survival packs, then load them on to a cargo plane. Problem solved.
Eliminate the risk of your medical charts getting lost or swapped with other patients. Carry your medical information in an RFID implant.
Name: Fang
Colour: Black, White, Tan
Weight: 27 Ibs 3 Oz
Height: 23"
Pulse Rate: 118
Temperature: 102 deg F
Condition: Intestinal worms, bad breath.
Handling notes: May bite if stared at.
Just like politics or sports. They only remember the best or the worst bits depending on their bias.
Or when your boss dismisses your idea, then has the same idea a month later and feels good about it.
How true. One day I tuned in to Planet Rock and they played several tracks I hadn't heard twice in three days.
I used to think they had a juke box with 5 compilation CD's, one for each decade 60's, 70's, 80's 90's.
You are correct. I meant prescribed. Thank you.
Date Public 03/18/2005 A buffer overflow vulnerability in the McAfee Virus Scan Engine may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on an affected system. Because the vulnerability exists in a core component, a number of different McAfee products are affected. http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/361180
vista -
1. a view, esp through a narrow avenue of trees, buildings, etc , or such a pasage or avenue itself.
2. a comprehensive mental view of a distant time or a lengthy series of events.
VISTA -
acronym for Volunteers in Service to America; an organisation of volunteers established by the Federal government to assist the poor.
Source - The Collins English Dictionary (1986)
Okay, I don't actually believe that systems are consciously projecting their thoughts in to your mind. But it does freak people out slightly when you expect a system to do something nobody expected - then it does. Colleagues start wondering if you're psychic or something. I think if you spend enough time looking at stuff on your systems, you get a feel for what may happen and when, even if you can't offer a great deal of proof.
Ever heard a tune in your mind then switched on the radio and it was there? Maybe your hearing is better than you think. Sometimes, in buildings really close to powerful transmitters, otherwise inanimate objects demodulate the broadcasts in to audible sound.
A colleague had a web page working for IE 6.x
He was puzzled as to why certain features would not parse with Firefox, rendering form submission useless.
No suprise then, given that he verified his work using IE 6.x
I recommended that he validate the html using the W3C validator.
The validator advised that there was a problem with his header. I suggested that he follow the proscribed format for his header following W3C guidance. My colleague followed that advice and solved his problem in 5 or 10 minutes.
W3C gets my vote for enabling html to work across platforms. If only more developers would use it.
its deer.
(er sorry folks..)
Well almost. Given the increase in data transfer since broadband became commonplace, 24TB is probably just the requirement for Vista's swap partition ;-)
Thanks for another excellent and detailed account. Although I know that bone can self repair, I had no idea how well it could adapt to a non-biological implant. Now that I think of it, I have some pins (screws) in place of roots anyway.
I expect biological implants to be trialed at some point in the next few decades. Here I'm refering to teeth propagated from the patients own DNA then implanted. This would seem a lot more expensive and complicated than non-bio implants though.
Cheers.
That was a really useful and interesting explanation.
Thanks for your excellent reply.
Regards
Plasma torches are used for cutting metal. I have a lot of metal in my teeth (not like jaws though).
I wonder what would happen if plasma was used to remove or clean up an amalgum filling. Might I expect the release of mercury vapour?
Why is it that in the 21st century, lead for solder is being legislated against and yet dental surgeries insist on using mercury for fillings. I don't understand.
Why are implants made with metal screws being drilled in to the jawbone? What happens if a tooth is punched out? Could this lead to jaw damage? Infection of the jawbone?
Maybe there will be better alternatives in 30 years, when/if the UK catches up, if we have any dentists left that is.
I grew up with science fiction. Reality is such a disappointment.
Smelliest substance known to man, I think this is present in rotting meat. It is used to give natural gas a distinct and unpleasant smell. Also found in skunk's spray. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethyl_mercaptan
Examples of surveillance abuse and public acceptance: http://imdb.com/title/tt0093894/ The Running Man (1987) http://imdb.com/title/tt0120382/ The Trueman Show (1998) Also see the following: http://imdb.com/title/tt0076987/ Blakes 7 (1978) http://imdb.com/title/tt0061287/ The Prisoner (1967) There were rumours of a Steve McQueen film which was banned. Anybody know about that?
Back in the 1980's if you built a crystal set (basic diode detector radio receiver) Radio Moscow tended to come in loud and clear. They had a major presence on the Shortwave bands. Nowadays it seems like whatever shortwave broadcast band you tune around, there is an English broadcast from Radio China International. They seem to have invested really heavily in this propaganda tool, as I can't recall anything like it since Radio Moscow of the original cold war. Although it doesn't seem quite as blatant as Radio Moscow or Radio Albania, if the USA or UK are in the media due to some potential controversy, RCI seems to enjoy making the most of it.
So, China now manufacture pretty much everything we buy or own due to outsourcing.
Has anybody else noticed what's happening? Where are we heading?
"The protests of 1989 resulted in the killing of Chinese protestors in the streets to the west of the square and adjacent areas. Some sources (Graham Earnshaw and Columbia Journal Review) claim that none died on the square itself. Opponents of the Chinese democracy movement object to the Western Media's labelling of the Tiananmen Massacre, the event known to the Chinese simply as the June Fourth or June Fourth movement, and June Fourth Incident. However, Chinese expatriates that escaped the tyranny after the killing said that the numbers ended up being in the thousands. This was a combination of the hundreds killed on the spot and the miniature purge that followed. These stories are confirmed by intelligence in the country as well. [edit]" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianamen_square
The suggestion that radio active waste be dumped in Tropical Rain Forests, would likely meet favour with much of the pharmaceutical industry. Tropical rain forests, most noteably the Amazon rain forest, have an abundance of natural medicines. Perhaps some pharmaceutical giants feel that they have a vested interest in the destruction of these sources of natural medicines. That would be a real shame. Perhaps they should be analysing these natural medicines with a view to propagating them locally, rather than denying their existance and selling dangerous artificial medicines to people who live in the rain forests.
In any case, the motivation to slash and burn forest areas has not yet been superceded. So long as it is profitable (and as long as there is little alternative for the homeless and starving), Loggers, developers and the poor, will not be stopped by low level radiation. Only lethal radiation would be effective and that in itself may be counter productive.
Look at it another way. Ultrasonic pest deterants are only effective as long as there is insufficient motivation for rodents to endure the discomfort. If you leave your meatfeast pizza on the floor, mice will endure the discomfort and eat it anyway.
But yes, if only the native inhabitants eg., Amazon indians, were left and incomers were taken out of these areas, the future prospects for nature might be better.
Amazing what they came up with in the 1940's: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_core_memory
"Although lately WarioWare Touched and Meteos have taken the place of my usual RPG travel companions. What games will you be playing while dreading arriving at your parents house?"
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_propelled_gre
So Mr hipernoico, where exactly are you travelling to and from?
Chaffing between the legs, commonly known as "jock-rot", is extremely unpleasant and painful.
Petroleum jelly (e.g. Vaseline - TM) applied on the fleshy bits that rub against each other will help a great deal. (between legs and testicles, (if you have them), and between the buttocks - no jokes please). Small tins are available for protecting lips. These weigh hardly anything and can save you from a lot of suffering. Beware of talc. Talc may be okay for feet but it can make jock-rot worse. If you inadvertantly mix talc with petroleum jelly you get a very fine grinding paste. Trust me - it rubs away the outer skin between the legs - very nasty!
On the subject of staying cool, a shemargh is brilliant. The native populace developed this clothing over centuries. You can use it too. Beware of wiping off sun protection cream. A walking stick strap or rubbing your face with the back of your hand will reduce or remove sun protection. Take care to reapply protective cream unless you want a nasty burn.
You might be able to walk around topless in Brittany (France) with care (I'm not recommending this). I found bare arms in the San Francisco Giants baseball stadium got painfully burned red during a game. All for the sake of not digging out some sun protection cream. (Well I was going to dig it out but we were in a hurry..)
Lightweights (green) were okay at around 90 deg F but I can't say how they cope in 130 deg F at blocking out IR and UV. I was extremely impressed with a long sleeve Lowe Alpine dry flo TM vest. Although it was black, it was amazingly effective at keeping the sun off and regulating body temperature. At night it was just a case of putting on a goretex jacket and a balaclava helmet while walking.
When active systems fail, you need to rely on passive systems. Keep it simple.
Re wearing a kilt - it might be good for catching locusts...
Don't even think about wearing a kilt in the area of Tyndrum in Scotland. The midges there don't know that jungle formula insect repellant is supposed to ward them off. If you happen to go camping there, make sure you have mosquito mesh in your tent. If you go walking there , take a mosi neat to wear over your head.
Cheers!
Well it says PUT user's face.
Where is the IP address or the ftp domain?
Username and password for login?