Yes they CAN down an airliner. The ILS system that allows you to land in low visibility uses frequencies starting JUST ABOVE the FM broadcast band. You most certainly could do harm with a misadjusted transmitter. The lowest ILS freq is 108.3 MHz IIRC. If you need to play FM pirate please don't try running off the top end of the band.
This is getting OT, but actual real pirates boarding boats and ships to do real nasty pirate stuff like kill people still is a huge problem.
I actually *ahem* know someone how did the pirate radio thing from a boat. Fun times "back in the day".
Just a bet that these are melted down or cut up for scrap rather than sold. Uncle Sam has not been real good about selling airplanes lately. I think keeping one safely operational would be just about beyond an individual. You would really need to hire a full time A&P with F-14 experience and have good connections for parts.
1. Used F-14 - $500.00
2. Restore to flying condition: $50,000,000.00
3. Flipping off assholes from DHS while in a restricted area and going to afterburner - Priceless!
We also use DU for tank armor and ammunition, did you know? And as weights in race cars and airplanes?
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And ballast in sailboats until it was banned. Not for radiation problems, it was considered unfair to racers who could only afford lead ballast.
Considering they have been on carriers with all that nice salt air, I wouldn't buy a used one without a HUGE budget for corrosion repair and another HUGE budget for fuel. Good luck with insurance too.....
Cells phones in general are MUCH less likely to work at high altitude then in years past. Base stations have moved closer together and use antennas that concentrate signals DOWNWARD. They tend to be quite insensitive to signals arriving from high angles.
High-end audio idiots would cetainly buy "special low loss molecular nylon pre-stressed" zip ties for $600 a piece all day long!
I once read a serious thread about the merits of well-over-$100 POWER CORDS! They were spouting utter bullshit like "the soundstage with brand X cord is clearly elevated" and other random word crap.
There was plenty of pr0n around back "in the day". It just wasn't on computers:)
While I don't think my parents made too much of an effort to find my stash, they sure didn't go out and buy it for me.
As for "illegal" downloads, maybe I'll set my kid up with some money in an allofmp3.com account if they are still around in a few years:)
Sorry - you have no clue at all.
When I was 16 I could have written that. My brother and I *did* pretty much grow up doing whatever with not too much supervision. Now we have kinds and we both agree it was an utterly insane way to raise kids. We didn't do too much, but what some of our friends did was pretty crazy. Some of them are lucky to be alive. Actually a couple aren't alive.
I know a lot of reasons people buy powerboats, but the unreliability of sail handling gear is not usually one of them. I have certainly been stuck more times with dead engines on power boats than on a sailboat that somehow lost all ability to set sail.
If you read the discussions in this thread, you can see the power provided *might* move the boat at 2 or 3 knots if they are lucky for 2 or 3 hours a day. If the wind is up to 25 knots anywhere ahead of the beam they will need many times the power available just to hold still, let alone move forward.
Every so often you need to climb the mast to do inspections or repairs, but it certainly isn't part of routine sailing or sail-handling. I need to go up and put on a new radio antenna. This will be my first time up the mast in two years. Comparing Ellen MacArthur and her boat to what most people do is like comparing the maintenance of an F1 car to an Accord. There is NO WAY the solar boat is going 6 knots 24 hours a day. The solar cells couldn't even produce the tinniest fraction of the required power to do that. It would be like trying to power an electric car with one AA battery.
First off, no one is "clambering up masts" to fix sails unless they bought a sailing ship from the 19th century. Modern technology allows all sail handling to be done from the deck.
Then there is the issue that no one would think floating around all day charging batteries to move very slowly for a few miles is any kind fun.
BTW, many sailboats have as many solar panels installed as they have room for. Thus they don't have to waste fuel generating electricity. I have sailed 700 miles in 5 days (beaing the shit out of the solar-boat average speed) and used about 6 gallons of fuel for electricity. If I had solar arrays for charging it would have been about 0.
I work for a large organization and I am working on rolling out Vista. We have to do it because sooner or later MS will quit supporting XP. OTherwise XP was working fine for us. Is this a benefit to anyone other than Bill Gates???????
When I got my Plasma I ran a break-in DVD every night until I hit the 100 hour mark. "Just" mode is a Panasonic image stretching process that stretches the edges more than the center. I have seen some that look really bad like a fisheye lense. The Panasonic version is pretty good. I hardly ever watch network TV anyway, so it isn't a big deal to me. Besides for kid's shows, we mainly watch widescreen DVDs, widescreen PPV, Discovery HD, and some HD shows like Law and Order. The point is the Plasma is great for our viewing habits. If I was into games I would have bought an LCD instead or DLP instead. If I had the space I would have got a Sony XBR960.
I never use the grey or black bars. I use the just mode on 4:3 content and it works fine. We mainly watch DVDs or PPV movies that are pretty close to 16:9 ratio, so this TV is perfect for us. If you mainly want to use it for video games and/or a computer monitor I would get something else.
The whole point of the 100 hour thing is that one hour of a static logo in the first 100 hours is like 10-20-100 hours of one later on. The pixels do NOT age in a linear fashion. They change the most in that 100 hour break in period.
BTW, I saw a Sony XBR960 for sale in Best Buy that had been showing a demo loop with black bars top and bottom for about a year. That tube was fsked:(
You have some wrong ideas about "burn-in". What you have with Plasma is uneven wear. A pure white screen will wear every pixel evenly, so it would never cause burn in. The black bars can "burn in", since those pixels get no use and the other ones do. THis is one reason many Plasma sets can go grey bars as well. The pixels age rapidly the first 100 hours, so you need to watch out during this period. After that it is not so much of an issue.
I just bought a Panasonic Plasma. The half-life of 60,000 hours is when it is at half the new brightness. Since I run the brightness turned pretty far down, I guess by then I will just have it turned up all the way, assuming I am still alive and there is such a thing as TV broadcasts by then. At the rate I watch TV, this will be like 70 years from now. Plasma is NOT the best choice if you are mainly into games. The new tubes are supposed to be pretty hard to burn in, but 4 hours a day of some game with a static frame might just do it after awhile. I don't even own a video game, so I don't really care. I am quite happy with my purchase and it will not become "obsolete" until the whole concept of TV does. The best thing about it is that SDTV (normal old fashioned TV) looks pretty good. The Panasonic "Just" mode stretches 4:3 content quite well. Doing extensive HDTV research I discovered the biggest issue with these TVs is that SDTV SUCKS on many of them and there stil isn't very much HD content out there. When your friends say that now they have HDTV they realize how bad nornal TV is, what they really mean normal TV looks like shit on their fancy new HD set.
If only it were that easy!
Restricted areas come and go at random times and places. Sometimes one part of the FAA doesn't even know the other part made something restriced! Sometimes they will accept flight plans into restriced airports and NOT tell the pilots that there are any restrictions. They have endless problems with tracking transponders in the DC-Balimore area and will violate YOU when THEIR equipment loses track of you. The Governor of Kentucky was almost shot down because of this. The FAA knew his airplane had transponder issues but "forgot" to tell anyone over at NORAD.
True conversation the day after they made the airspace around nuclear power plants restricted.
ME: OK, where are they? Can I have a map of them?
FAA: That's classified. We can't give you a map of all nuclear plants.
ME: So I avoid them how?
That rule at least has gone away. Partly because an airplane would just smudge the paint on a reactor dome at worst.
Our state idiot legislature tried to make it a FELONY for any flight instructor to even give verbal flying advice to anyone not having a security clearance from the state or for an uncleared person to receive such advice or training. I faxed every state legislator with a one page list of flying tips and then at the bottom explained we were both felons now.
Cry Wolf problem here:
Too many "plots" that were BS sessions over a beer (or whatever the Ali-Babas drink) have made people suspect that ALL the terrorist plots are bullshit.
I have always wondered why people think that God or 'Nature" will come and give them rights. An animal has the right to live until some stronger animal kills it and eats it. In a place like Somalia you have the right to whatever you are strong enough to capture and keep away from everyone else. Modern liberal western society is a "virtual" world where we all decided that everyone has certian rights and then formed various oragnizations to preserve them. Prior to 1865, of what use was the Bill of Rights to a slave? He had the right to be free if he was smart enough and quick enough to escape to the north, otherwise he was PWNED in the most literal sense.
I never thought India was perfect, but contrast with China or Korea or (insert favorite fascist hell-hole here) where the only response would have been a qucik trip to the local prison. India's gov't surely does pay some attention to the mood of the public.
Not really, but then again I believe strongly in the right to say whatever you want to. So I really don't think anything bad should happen to him at all. Kind of like all the people that make satiric drawings of Pres. Bush as a chimp don't actually beleive he is a Simian instead of Homo Sapien and also aren't really trying to insult chimps either.
Hate to burst your anarchist bubble, but the reason the Indian Gov't was concerned about annoyed bloggers was because they COULD VOTE THEM OUT OF OFFICE if the problem was not fixed. Also note that India, like the USA, has rules against the gov't just sending troops in to kill everyone that annoys them. Think about it, Michael Moore might have had an atomic bomb dropped on his lard ass by now otherwise!
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Yes they CAN down an airliner. The ILS system that allows you to land in low visibility uses frequencies starting JUST ABOVE the FM broadcast band. You most certainly could do harm with a misadjusted transmitter. The lowest ILS freq is 108.3 MHz IIRC. If you need to play FM pirate please don't try running off the top end of the band.
This is getting OT, but actual real pirates boarding boats and ships to do real nasty pirate stuff like kill people still is a huge problem. I actually *ahem* know someone how did the pirate radio thing from a boat. Fun times "back in the day".
Just a bet that these are melted down or cut up for scrap rather than sold. Uncle Sam has not been real good about selling airplanes lately. I think keeping one safely operational would be just about beyond an individual. You would really need to hire a full time A&P with F-14 experience and have good connections for parts. 1. Used F-14 - $500.00 2. Restore to flying condition: $50,000,000.00 3. Flipping off assholes from DHS while in a restricted area and going to afterburner - Priceless!
We also use DU for tank armor and ammunition, did you know? And as weights in race cars and airplanes? -- And ballast in sailboats until it was banned. Not for radiation problems, it was considered unfair to racers who could only afford lead ballast.
Considering they have been on carriers with all that nice salt air, I wouldn't buy a used one without a HUGE budget for corrosion repair and another HUGE budget for fuel. Good luck with insurance too.....
Cells phones in general are MUCH less likely to work at high altitude then in years past. Base stations have moved closer together and use antennas that concentrate signals DOWNWARD. They tend to be quite insensitive to signals arriving from high angles.
High-end audio idiots would cetainly buy "special low loss molecular nylon pre-stressed" zip ties for $600 a piece all day long! I once read a serious thread about the merits of well-over-$100 POWER CORDS! They were spouting utter bullshit like "the soundstage with brand X cord is clearly elevated" and other random word crap.
There was plenty of pr0n around back "in the day". It just wasn't on computers :)
While I don't think my parents made too much of an effort to find my stash, they sure didn't go out and buy it for me.
As for "illegal" downloads, maybe I'll set my kid up with some money in an allofmp3.com account if they are still around in a few years :)
Sorry - you have no clue at all. When I was 16 I could have written that. My brother and I *did* pretty much grow up doing whatever with not too much supervision. Now we have kinds and we both agree it was an utterly insane way to raise kids. We didn't do too much, but what some of our friends did was pretty crazy. Some of them are lucky to be alive. Actually a couple aren't alive.
Check this boat out: http://dsehybrid.com/html/island_pilot_dse_hybrid_ detail.html
I know a lot of reasons people buy powerboats, but the unreliability of sail handling gear is not usually one of them. I have certainly been stuck more times with dead engines on power boats than on a sailboat that somehow lost all ability to set sail. If you read the discussions in this thread, you can see the power provided *might* move the boat at 2 or 3 knots if they are lucky for 2 or 3 hours a day. If the wind is up to 25 knots anywhere ahead of the beam they will need many times the power available just to hold still, let alone move forward.
Every so often you need to climb the mast to do inspections or repairs, but it certainly isn't part of routine sailing or sail-handling. I need to go up and put on a new radio antenna. This will be my first time up the mast in two years. Comparing Ellen MacArthur and her boat to what most people do is like comparing the maintenance of an F1 car to an Accord. There is NO WAY the solar boat is going 6 knots 24 hours a day. The solar cells couldn't even produce the tinniest fraction of the required power to do that. It would be like trying to power an electric car with one AA battery.
First off, no one is "clambering up masts" to fix sails unless they bought a sailing ship from the 19th century. Modern technology allows all sail handling to be done from the deck. Then there is the issue that no one would think floating around all day charging batteries to move very slowly for a few miles is any kind fun. BTW, many sailboats have as many solar panels installed as they have room for. Thus they don't have to waste fuel generating electricity. I have sailed 700 miles in 5 days (beaing the shit out of the solar-boat average speed) and used about 6 gallons of fuel for electricity. If I had solar arrays for charging it would have been about 0.
I work for a large organization and I am working on rolling out Vista. We have to do it because sooner or later MS will quit supporting XP. OTherwise XP was working fine for us. Is this a benefit to anyone other than Bill Gates???????
When I got my Plasma I ran a break-in DVD every night until I hit the 100 hour mark. "Just" mode is a Panasonic image stretching process that stretches the edges more than the center. I have seen some that look really bad like a fisheye lense. The Panasonic version is pretty good. I hardly ever watch network TV anyway, so it isn't a big deal to me. Besides for kid's shows, we mainly watch widescreen DVDs, widescreen PPV, Discovery HD, and some HD shows like Law and Order. The point is the Plasma is great for our viewing habits. If I was into games I would have bought an LCD instead or DLP instead. If I had the space I would have got a Sony XBR960.
I never use the grey or black bars. I use the just mode on 4:3 content and it works fine. We mainly watch DVDs or PPV movies that are pretty close to 16:9 ratio, so this TV is perfect for us. If you mainly want to use it for video games and/or a computer monitor I would get something else. The whole point of the 100 hour thing is that one hour of a static logo in the first 100 hours is like 10-20-100 hours of one later on. The pixels do NOT age in a linear fashion. They change the most in that 100 hour break in period. BTW, I saw a Sony XBR960 for sale in Best Buy that had been showing a demo loop with black bars top and bottom for about a year. That tube was fsked :(
You have some wrong ideas about "burn-in". What you have with Plasma is uneven wear. A pure white screen will wear every pixel evenly, so it would never cause burn in. The black bars can "burn in", since those pixels get no use and the other ones do. THis is one reason many Plasma sets can go grey bars as well. The pixels age rapidly the first 100 hours, so you need to watch out during this period. After that it is not so much of an issue.
I just bought a Panasonic Plasma. The half-life of 60,000 hours is when it is at half the new brightness. Since I run the brightness turned pretty far down, I guess by then I will just have it turned up all the way, assuming I am still alive and there is such a thing as TV broadcasts by then. At the rate I watch TV, this will be like 70 years from now. Plasma is NOT the best choice if you are mainly into games. The new tubes are supposed to be pretty hard to burn in, but 4 hours a day of some game with a static frame might just do it after awhile. I don't even own a video game, so I don't really care. I am quite happy with my purchase and it will not become "obsolete" until the whole concept of TV does. The best thing about it is that SDTV (normal old fashioned TV) looks pretty good. The Panasonic "Just" mode stretches 4:3 content quite well. Doing extensive HDTV research I discovered the biggest issue with these TVs is that SDTV SUCKS on many of them and there stil isn't very much HD content out there. When your friends say that now they have HDTV they realize how bad nornal TV is, what they really mean normal TV looks like shit on their fancy new HD set.
If only it were that easy! Restricted areas come and go at random times and places. Sometimes one part of the FAA doesn't even know the other part made something restriced! Sometimes they will accept flight plans into restriced airports and NOT tell the pilots that there are any restrictions. They have endless problems with tracking transponders in the DC-Balimore area and will violate YOU when THEIR equipment loses track of you. The Governor of Kentucky was almost shot down because of this. The FAA knew his airplane had transponder issues but "forgot" to tell anyone over at NORAD. True conversation the day after they made the airspace around nuclear power plants restricted. ME: OK, where are they? Can I have a map of them? FAA: That's classified. We can't give you a map of all nuclear plants. ME: So I avoid them how? That rule at least has gone away. Partly because an airplane would just smudge the paint on a reactor dome at worst. Our state idiot legislature tried to make it a FELONY for any flight instructor to even give verbal flying advice to anyone not having a security clearance from the state or for an uncleared person to receive such advice or training. I faxed every state legislator with a one page list of flying tips and then at the bottom explained we were both felons now.
Cry Wolf problem here: Too many "plots" that were BS sessions over a beer (or whatever the Ali-Babas drink) have made people suspect that ALL the terrorist plots are bullshit.
I have always wondered why people think that God or 'Nature" will come and give them rights. An animal has the right to live until some stronger animal kills it and eats it. In a place like Somalia you have the right to whatever you are strong enough to capture and keep away from everyone else. Modern liberal western society is a "virtual" world where we all decided that everyone has certian rights and then formed various oragnizations to preserve them. Prior to 1865, of what use was the Bill of Rights to a slave? He had the right to be free if he was smart enough and quick enough to escape to the north, otherwise he was PWNED in the most literal sense.
I never thought India was perfect, but contrast with China or Korea or (insert favorite fascist hell-hole here) where the only response would have been a qucik trip to the local prison. India's gov't surely does pay some attention to the mood of the public.
Not really, but then again I believe strongly in the right to say whatever you want to. So I really don't think anything bad should happen to him at all. Kind of like all the people that make satiric drawings of Pres. Bush as a chimp don't actually beleive he is a Simian instead of Homo Sapien and also aren't really trying to insult chimps either.
Hate to burst your anarchist bubble, but the reason the Indian Gov't was concerned about annoyed bloggers was because they COULD VOTE THEM OUT OF OFFICE if the problem was not fixed. Also note that India, like the USA, has rules against the gov't just sending troops in to kill everyone that annoys them. Think about it, Michael Moore might have had an atomic bomb dropped on his lard ass by now otherwise!
I could swear that I read in Network World that some company had at least a theory for using this as a no-lag communication device.