Hero: "If that compass (mounted to the mountain) changes direction by 180 degrees, we're all going to blow up!"
Floozie: " But won't that take, like, hundreds of years."
Cue the "exciting music"
Hero: "Can't you see, we only have a few hundred years to defuse the bomb!!!!! or everyone within 1 acre of this part of the mountain is doomed!!!.
It's strange that some areas of the map vary in shade precisely across state lines. For instance, look at the Florida panhandle. Could it be that some states have different measurement methods?
I was making an analogy to broadcasters being required to tape and store copies of their broadcast to prove their innocence or guilt. Another analogy would be if everyone who shopped at the mall were required by law to film themselves shopping to prove their not shoplifting. Having documents showing a license for building a house and having to maintain a tape library and be forced to staff it are a bit different though.
There are restaurants where it is illegal to purchase alcohol on sundays (Parts of Alabama). I'm sure though that you could find an analogy for this "police and record evidence of yourself" or "Prove you're not guilty" type scenario.
If a broadcaster doesn't record everything now. And the government decides that they have to record everything and keep it on record, they now have the added cost of maintaining the new manditory data. There are costs for people, equipment etc. Even if it only added $1 of cost per month, they shouldn't be forced to do this. How does this relate to the 5th amendment? If you ask me, the groups who offer the complaints should be providing the proof, not the broadcasters. That's like forcing me to install equipment in my fridge that detects when I'm drinking on Sunday! (Illegal in some areas).
"Tom Daschle, a South Dakota Democrat and Judiciary Committee ranking Democrat Patrick Leahy".
Sorry, I don't wont Mr. Daschle and Leahy to get lonely. They deserve some credit too. What's their motivation? Inquiring minds want to know!
At least you can auto-clave robot hands... And yes,
I do realize you can auto-clave human hands too, but only once.
Plus, the robot won't pick his nose between rooms.
Perhaps the robot could be coated with one of the previously mentioned (here on/.) bacteria killing surfaces.
You're right. That one-armed shop teacher made everyone respect power tools more. (Just don't tell them that there's a safety net. No one has to know;)
If you're stranded on top of your house during a major flood, you may get perfect reception. As far as signal while being trapped under rubble, it's happened before. Also, there's the case where survivors could call loved ones to let them know their ok.
Trigger Happy TV exerpt:
"(Nokia ring tone) HELLO! NO, I'M TRAPPED UNDER A BUILDING. WHAT. I WAS JUST CHEWING THROUGH MY LEG! WHAT? OK, HAVE A GREAT DAY TO YOU TOO!"
In Rainbow 6 you fought domestic terrorists and foreign. In Swat 3 (I think it was 3), you fought all sorts of people from foreign extremists, to trailer trash (One of my favorites). In Pac-Man, you fought ghosts, which one could assume were of local origin. Does the last one count?
::In a Familiar Dana Carvey voice::
And who would it be to help mean old World Com carry their sattelites into space in a firey chariot? Oh, I don't know... might it be..... SATAN!!!
But seriously, way to go, now what can we use old SCUDs for?
You may have victims trapped under rubble, or stranded in flood waters who can call for help thanks to this. Residents in the area of a disaster could potentially use up all of the capacity in a disaster area calling family members to let them know their ok. This would increase cellphone capacity in that area, just like they do at sporting events.
I do think that at the very least, this is just outside the edge of being classified as news for nerds. Maybe news for opinionated libral nerds would encompass this story.
Before you consider this flamebait, consider what I'm saying carefully.
I would say that their 'right to free speech' concerning their right to place data on my hard drive is the same confused mis-representation of the 1st Amendment as thinking that someone's free speech means that I have to listen to them.
Free Speech does NOT mean:
1. I have to listen
2. You get free use of any communications system.
3. You can force people to pay attention to you.
4. If I own a communications system or freq band that I should let eveyone with an opposing opinion spend the same amount of time talking/communicating as I do.
5. I am not responsible for the consequences of the things I said.
Free speech does mean that:
1. I can say what I want, when I want.
2. If I pay for a system, it's mine, and I can use it for my free speech.
3. Someone else can tell me what to say, but I don't have to say it.
Ah, I'm glad you asked...
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It's called a hand roll. You don't need a paddle to roll grass-hopper. It's all in the hip-flick. (The other hand sculling helps too).
If you wanted to go "all out" geeked up...
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Build a remote water-tight serial LCD read-out visible on the front deck, while the laptop, and non-IPX-7 equipment is behind a water-proof bulkhead behind the cockpit, (in a sealed water-cooled drybox for good measure). This way, you wouldn't have to do the laptop version of a "top hat" roll (ie a "trick" roll where the paddler keeps an item dry by holding it out of the water and placing it on the now upright hull then grabbing it before rolling up completely.)
Back in '92 in a High School computer class after some serious concentrating on coding, I looked over to a friend's PC next to me, and instinctively tried to move my mouse cursor over to his PC to show him an error. At the time, I felt silly for doing that. In hindsight, my subconscious actions might have led to a similar innovation. Now on a related note, I found that after hours of playing Castle Wolfenstein (back then), I had the urge to push on every brick wall I found to see if there was a hidden room behind it.
Maybe I'm being too cynical but...
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I can't see a pay internet kiosk use at a rest stop being too profitable. AKA going the way of the payphone. Users who can't wait to get to their destination to check their e-mails will likely have their own laptops and would prefer to use the free wifi access. Leaving a small market for pay kiosk use (outside of initial novelty). I see the state funding these APs after the private company goes under. My feeling is that if the public likes it, and it's not profitable, the government will fund it sooner or later. If I'm wrong, then I've seen a late night advertisement for pay internet kiosks that will make you a fortune.
I agree about the waste of taxpayer money. This should really be done in commercial truck stops and gas stations. I live in one of those states who has cronic budget deficits and both parties are pretty quick to want to raise taxes with their spending. This sounds to me like another example of raise spending on "feel good" projects so we can raise taxes 'cause we're in debt, while feeding some of our pork projects. As a geek, I do love the idea of having more places to connect my laptop via wifi, but it's not blinding me of the fact that the state govenments will pay %4000 of what it should cost to install/run, and it's a %0 return on investment.
Free Wifi with any "Toilet Sandwich"!
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I can just see the vending machine at the urinal now. Condoms, Asprin, Egg Salad Sandwich, Wifi-B NIC extra sensitivity.
This reminds me of buring ants with a magnifying glass. Scaled up a few times, and modified to be useful and all, but still the same root coolness (if you're a geek) multiplied. What restraint they must have in not playing a very expensive version of the old game "lets put stuff in dad's vise and crush it!"
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Hero: "If that compass (mounted to the mountain) changes direction by 180 degrees, we're all going to blow up!"
Floozie: " But won't that take, like, hundreds of years."
Cue the "exciting music" Hero: "Can't you see, we only have a few hundred years to defuse the bomb!!!!! or everyone within 1 acre of this part of the mountain is doomed!!!.
It's strange that some areas of the map vary in shade precisely across state lines. For instance, look at the Florida panhandle. Could it be that some states have different measurement methods?
"Now, go burn Atlanta to the ground and I'll look the other way."
It's a joke, don't take the above as an actual quote.
I was making an analogy to broadcasters being required to tape and store copies of their broadcast to prove their innocence or guilt. Another analogy would be if everyone who shopped at the mall were required by law to film themselves shopping to prove their not shoplifting. Having documents showing a license for building a house and having to maintain a tape library and be forced to staff it are a bit different though.
There are restaurants where it is illegal to purchase alcohol on sundays (Parts of Alabama). I'm sure though that you could find an analogy for this "police and record evidence of yourself" or "Prove you're not guilty" type scenario.
If a broadcaster doesn't record everything now. And the government decides that they have to record everything and keep it on record, they now have the added cost of maintaining the new manditory data. There are costs for people, equipment etc. Even if it only added $1 of cost per month, they shouldn't be forced to do this. How does this relate to the 5th amendment? If you ask me, the groups who offer the complaints should be providing the proof, not the broadcasters. That's like forcing me to install equipment in my fridge that detects when I'm drinking on Sunday! (Illegal in some areas).
"Tom Daschle, a South Dakota Democrat and Judiciary Committee ranking Democrat Patrick Leahy".
Sorry, I don't wont Mr. Daschle and Leahy to get lonely. They deserve some credit too. What's their motivation? Inquiring minds want to know!
At least you can auto-clave robot hands... /.) bacteria killing surfaces.
And yes, I do realize you can auto-clave human hands too, but only once.
Plus, the robot won't pick his nose between rooms.
Perhaps the robot could be coated with one of the previously mentioned (here on
You're right. That one-armed shop teacher made everyone respect power tools more. (Just don't tell them that there's a safety net. No one has to know ;)
If you're stranded on top of your house during a major flood, you may get perfect reception. As far as signal while being trapped under rubble, it's happened before. Also, there's the case where survivors could call loved ones to let them know their ok.
Trigger Happy TV exerpt:
"(Nokia ring tone) HELLO! NO, I'M TRAPPED UNDER A BUILDING. WHAT. I WAS JUST CHEWING THROUGH MY LEG! WHAT? OK, HAVE A GREAT DAY TO YOU TOO!"
In Rainbow 6 you fought domestic terrorists and foreign. In Swat 3 (I think it was 3), you fought all sorts of people from foreign extremists, to trailer trash (One of my favorites). In Pac-Man, you fought ghosts, which one could assume were of local origin. Does the last one count?
::In a Familiar Dana Carvey voice:: And who would it be to help mean old World Com carry their sattelites into space in a firey chariot? Oh, I don't know... might it be..... SATAN!!!
But seriously, way to go, now what can we use old SCUDs for?
You may have victims trapped under rubble, or stranded in flood waters who can call for help thanks to this. Residents in the area of a disaster could potentially use up all of the capacity in a disaster area calling family members to let them know their ok. This would increase cellphone capacity in that area, just like they do at sporting events.
Oddly enough, it's Microsoft
I want to take my coordinates with me when I move! Everyone else will just have to deal with it, from topozone to GPS manufacturers!.
(Please take the above as a healthy dose of sarcasm)
I do think that at the very least, this is just outside the edge of being classified as news for nerds. Maybe news for opinionated libral nerds would encompass this story.
Before you consider this flamebait, consider what I'm saying carefully.
I would say that their 'right to free speech' concerning their right to place data on my hard drive is the same confused mis-representation of the 1st Amendment as thinking that someone's free speech means that I have to listen to them.
Free Speech does NOT mean:
1. I have to listen
2. You get free use of any communications system.
3. You can force people to pay attention to you.
4. If I own a communications system or freq band that I should let eveyone with an opposing opinion spend the same amount of time talking/communicating as I do.
5. I am not responsible for the consequences of the things I said.
Free speech does mean that:
1. I can say what I want, when I want.
2. If I pay for a system, it's mine, and I can use it for my free speech.
3. Someone else can tell me what to say, but I don't have to say it.
It's called a hand roll. You don't need a paddle to roll grass-hopper. It's all in the hip-flick. (The other hand sculling helps too).
Build a remote water-tight serial LCD read-out visible on the front deck, while the laptop, and non-IPX-7 equipment is behind a water-proof bulkhead behind the cockpit, (in a sealed water-cooled drybox for good measure). This way, you wouldn't have to do the laptop version of a "top hat" roll
(ie a "trick" roll where the paddler keeps an item dry by holding it out of the water and placing it on the now upright hull then grabbing it before rolling up completely.)
Back in '92 in a High School computer class after some serious concentrating on coding, I looked over to a friend's PC next to me, and instinctively tried to move my mouse cursor over to his PC to show him an error. At the time, I felt silly for doing that. In hindsight, my subconscious actions might have led to a similar innovation.
Now on a related note, I found that after hours of playing Castle Wolfenstein (back then), I had the urge to push on every brick wall I found to see if there was a hidden room behind it.
Do not taunt happy fun ball.
I can't see a pay internet kiosk use at a rest stop being too profitable. AKA going the way of the payphone. Users who can't wait to get to their destination to check their e-mails will likely have their own laptops and would prefer to use the free wifi access. Leaving a small market for pay kiosk use (outside of initial novelty). I see the state funding these APs after the private company goes under. My feeling is that if the public likes it, and it's not profitable, the government will fund it sooner or later. If I'm wrong, then I've seen a late night advertisement for pay internet kiosks that will make you a fortune.
I agree about the waste of taxpayer money. This should really be done in commercial truck stops and gas stations. I live in one of those states who has cronic budget deficits and both parties are pretty quick to want to raise taxes with their spending. This sounds to me like another example of raise spending on "feel good" projects so we can raise taxes 'cause we're in debt, while feeding some of our pork projects. As a geek, I do love the idea of having more places to connect my laptop via wifi, but it's not blinding me of the fact that the state govenments will pay %4000 of what it should cost to install/run, and it's a %0 return on investment.
I can just see the vending machine at the urinal now. Condoms, Asprin, Egg Salad Sandwich, Wifi-B NIC extra sensitivity.
This reminds me of buring ants with a magnifying glass. Scaled up a few times, and modified to be useful and all, but still the same root coolness (if you're a geek) multiplied.
What restraint they must have in not playing a very expensive version of the old game "lets put stuff in dad's vise and crush it!"