A good example of how this can work right is the article on author J. Michael Straczynski. Straczynski's article had one of the typical sub-par photos. He lamented this fact on one of his on-net postings, and in the same posting provided a much better photo, officially released the new photo under the necessary license, and asked any of his readers who were Wikipedia-savvy to do the needed work to get the new photo into place. The work was done, and the article now contains a publicity quality photo of the author.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Michael_Straczynski
In many of the reports they are saying it's quite possible that a body will never be found. In a wilderness area like this, with many, many hungry animals, bodies can get very quickly scattered all over.
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The reports are not saying that he hiked that distance, but that his ID was found that distance away from the crash site. In an area with plenty of wildlife, there are many other ways his ID could have been transported that distance, besides him surviving the initial crash.
In that one they originally wanted to try to flip the taxi with the backwash from a real jet airplane. The insurance company refused to insure the test because of concerns that the taxi might somehow flip back and damage the airplane. The taxi itself was junk, and was expected to be trashed. So the team went with plan B and hired a couple of huge truck-mounted jets.
I selected the wrong moderation choice on a post and am posting this to kill that moderation. I ask other moderators to have mercy, and not mod me off-topic, but instead just let this post languish at it's default level.
Yeah, but I would think a video would make for better evidence, giving indications of the speed of the conversation, and guaranteeing that the contents of the conversation hadn't been edited, which could be done with any sort of flat-file logging.
For anyone interested in following up on the origins of Murphy's Law (the similarities to the current NASA situation are very interesting), here's a great article is available on the Origin of Murphy's Law. This was listed here on/. several months back.
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For a long time there was a difference, mostly of format. Graphic novels tended to be the larger, more substantial tomes. Often original work not released in the more common "comic" format. Comic books were the floppy things that come out monthly or bi-monthly.
Today, between continual collecting of monthly comics into compilations and the like, the difference is so blurred that the terms are allmost interchangeable. Pity. It used to be a useful distinction.
One thing I did think of after I made my original post. I wonder if there is anywhere where all 5's are legal as a number. The exchange 555 is generally reserved to allow use as a number in creative productions. TV, movies, books, etc. They can come up with any number that starts with 555, and never have to worry about causing problems like the 867-5309 song caused.
So I doubt that the all 5's number is available for anyone to sell. But I could very well be wrong on it as well.
Hmm. I would think that numbers that are all the same digit would be pretty nice. Depending on the active exchanges in a local, anything from all 2's to all 9's might be available. All 8's might not be legal, since '888' is one of the toll-free area codes.
I know in Austin that Pizza Hut has/had all 4's for a central delivery order number. And I think that in either Austin or San Antonio a taxi company has all 2's.
For a business, this would be one of the easiest phone numbers for customers to remember.
Groklaw's new page appears to currently be slashdotted. The text of the article in question has already been posted, but I figured someone might want Groklaw's old URL.
The mentioned article isn't there (they haven't updated the old page in a few days), but if anyone wants to go through Groklaw's excellent archives, they're still there.
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A good example of how this can work right is the article on author J. Michael Straczynski. Straczynski's article had one of the typical sub-par photos. He lamented this fact on one of his on-net postings, and in the same posting provided a much better photo, officially released the new photo under the necessary license, and asked any of his readers who were Wikipedia-savvy to do the needed work to get the new photo into place. The work was done, and the article now contains a publicity quality photo of the author. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Michael_Straczynski
In many of the reports they are saying it's quite possible that a body will never be found. In a wilderness area like this, with many, many hungry animals, bodies can get very quickly scattered all over.
The reports are not saying that he hiked that distance, but that his ID was found that distance away from the crash site. In an area with plenty of wildlife, there are many other ways his ID could have been transported that distance, besides him surviving the initial crash.
In that one they originally wanted to try to flip the taxi with the backwash from a real jet airplane. The insurance company refused to insure the test because of concerns that the taxi might somehow flip back and damage the airplane. The taxi itself was junk, and was expected to be trashed. So the team went with plan B and hired a couple of huge truck-mounted jets.
I selected the wrong moderation choice on a post and am posting this to kill that moderation. I ask other moderators to have mercy, and not mod me off-topic, but instead just let this post languish at it's default level.
Actually, it would be .Hack//Infection, .Hack//Outbreak, etc, the game series. .Hack//Sign was one of the TV shows.
While they all have the MMORPG as the setting, it's the series of four games that has the interface that you describe.
Yeah, but I would think a video would make for better evidence, giving indications of the speed of the conversation, and guaranteeing that the contents of the conversation hadn't been edited, which could be done with any sort of flat-file logging.
For anyone interested in following up on the origins of Murphy's Law (the similarities to the current NASA situation are very interesting), here's a great article is available on the Origin of Murphy's Law. This was listed here on /. several months back.
www.slashdot.com
For a long time there was a difference, mostly of format. Graphic novels tended to be the larger, more substantial tomes. Often original work not released in the more common "comic" format. Comic books were the floppy things that come out monthly or bi-monthly.
Today, between continual collecting of monthly comics into compilations and the like, the difference is so blurred that the terms are allmost interchangeable. Pity. It used to be a useful distinction.
Good point. I was just speculating about the 8's.
One thing I did think of after I made my original post. I wonder if there is anywhere where all 5's are legal as a number. The exchange 555 is generally reserved to allow use as a number in creative productions. TV, movies, books, etc. They can come up with any number that starts with 555, and never have to worry about causing problems like the 867-5309 song caused.
So I doubt that the all 5's number is available for anyone to sell. But I could very well be wrong on it as well.
Hmm. I would think that numbers that are all the same digit would be pretty nice. Depending on the active exchanges in a local, anything from all 2's to all 9's might be available. All 8's might not be legal, since '888' is one of the toll-free area codes.
I know in Austin that Pizza Hut has/had all 4's for a central delivery order number. And I think that in either Austin or San Antonio a taxi company has all 2's. For a business, this would be one of the easiest phone numbers for customers to remember.
Groklaw's new page appears to currently be slashdotted. The text of the article in question has already been posted, but I figured someone might want Groklaw's old URL. The mentioned article isn't there (they haven't updated the old page in a few days), but if anyone wants to go through Groklaw's excellent archives, they're still there.