When I lived in Sydney, Australia area, i visited a friend in Lower Templestow near Melbourne and she and i and about five or six others went with a friend in a large cabin cruiser out past the breakwall at Portsea into the near ocean area and we were laughing, drinking and doing some fishing and all of a sudden a wall of high water was coming at us. Fortunately the engines were on and the captain immediately turned into the wave as well as he could do in the few seconds we had.
We were picked up and tossed about and then dropped into a hole of air at least several feet in depth. Fortunately no one was thrown overboard but we were all pretty shook up and the party seemed to end about then.
The captain put it to vote on whether to stay out or go back to port. Most chose to go back and the Captain wanted to verify that no damage had weakened the structure so he was obviously pleased with this choice.
I was 2nd in command of a three man Combat Targeting Team back in the 60's. Our mission was to enter the launch codes into the missile guidance section and to optically align the missile to true north.
Our work of course caused us to carry classified information such as launch codes, war plans, etc. we had top secret crypto clearances for this work and while we were in the missile silo's actually performing our work we were protected by air police who would repel any intruders that might try to penetrate the missile site while it was open.
We each carried a sidearm usually a.38 revolver and we worked with the two man concept that we knew the job and we would shoot the other if something unusual was taking place.
To get into the missile site we had to authenticate with secret codes and one time the launch commander at the launch control facility mis-authenticated my team leader's code and so they sent out a strike team to apprehend us.
We carried launch codes and so we forced to defend them by drawing our weapons and the strike team thought we were enemies impersonating Air Force personnel trying to illegally enter a missile silo and so we all had our weapons drawn and what stopped any more escalation was that the air policeman who had guard duty with us personally knew one guy from the strike team.
Everyone there was doing what they were trained to do but the circumstances made things real hairy. I reflect sometimes on what might have happened if the two air police did not recognize each other.
Mistakenly install the roll backwards just one time and you will never work again in the toilet paper/nuclear power industry. They don't forget nor forgive. They just wipe up the mess and insert the rods again.
Whenever I see a device that tries to be "Everything" I am taken back to the 60's to McNamara and his desire to have an airplane that had "commonality" and could serve as the "end all".
The F111 was designed to be both a fighter and a bomber. It was too heavy to land on carriers and could not carry the required equipment and payloads required by the Navy... did not even have gatlin guns on it for a while, and it was too small to carry a large payload and the range was too short to be an effective bomber.
So is the T-mobile a F111 or can these problems be worked out?
This is a time for the designer to eat his/her pride and make it work... if that is possible. It wasn't possible with the F111 and the T-mobile remains to be seen.
"This is why companies have outside auditors for their accounting departments."
Major company I worked for in Australia had the financial comptroller cook the books for 1.75 million Australian dollars. He and his family absconded to England over a holiday weekend. The Managing Director suspected something wasn't right and wanted an outside auditor to check the books but the regional VP said "no"... don't waste the money.
Basil Brown was able to get something on all of the major players in the company so it was in the company's best interest to let Basil live free in England. Saw he and his wife at Wimbledon on TV the following year.
One has to live with themselves concerning their lifetime on Earth. Violating the trust of another individual might be easy for some... but difficult for most people I imagine.
It is easy to mistake subtle humor for a flamebait type of statement if in a hurry to moderate or those who are not in the "know" while moderating.
I am often surprised when reading a post and someone has already modded it funny and it takes a second for the humor to sink in... if it wasn't already marked "funny" then "whoose"... right over my head.
I am constantly impressed with those that do immediately see the humor or the joke/parody that goes into the posts. There are a lot of smart people with quick minds here and then there are some that are not tuned in as well as others might be.
Regardless of the mod points assigned, i enjoy your posts!
Sorry you were modded offtopic... it is a funny statement.
Along the same lines it is rumored that California one day will simply go flying off the planet into space by centrifugal force as the earthquakes dislodge all of the earthly connections.
This rumor may have been a metaphor but I am not sure.
An uncharged capacitor looks like a dead short initially and so the current flow is limited only by the resistance of the wiring and the internal resistance of the power supply or other source.
If the resistance approaches zero ohms then the current approaches infinite amperes. The larger the capacitance then the longer it will take to charge it fully (usually five time constants of RC to bring it to 99% fully charged)
In the early 60's i was working part time at a TV repair shop to augment my military paycheck. I was working on one of those old huge TV's in the wooden cabinet type of thing. i had traced the problem to a paper electrolytic of fair proportion.
I changed the capacitor and confidently looked at the waveform on the scope knowing now that there would be no more ripple on the line but to my amazement there was even more ripple. I looked closely at my installation job noting it was across the right terminals and the polarity was correct.
I pulled my head out of the TV cabinet to look at the schematic to envision what else might be wrong when the capacitor blew up like a small bomb leaving a boiling hot liquid paste where moments before my head was peering.
It turned out that the paper cylinder was installed backwards on the capacitor reversing the positive and negative terminals.
Even if the paper cylinder was backwards... one can still note the metal case of the capacitor being the negative terminal. I failed to do this.
This occasion added a new check I made each time for every capacitor installed after that.
My 9 mm semi auto pistol also has an orange ring around the barrel to make the police believe it is benign.
Remember the movie where the star was going to hold up a bank with a squirt gun that was in his pocket, he was nervous and pulled the trigger so when the lady behind the bank counter saw his wet pants she called him a "disgusting man"?
Since the computer system was found to be located in Florida I naturally believed it had to do with Cuba and/or Central America. This was back in 1983 or so but the report i received was that it was definitely CIA. There is more information that I am reluctant to share so I can see why you may have doubts.
As an example... what if this mainframe system suddenly appeared in a little bookstore in Miami that did not need a computer of that size. Immediately bells and alarms go off as to what it is doing there. The local engineering manager in Florida when queried simply told me that it was a CIA setup and that is all he was allowed to say about it. The bookstore was operational but was a false front to the real purpose whatever that was/is.
While the databases were regional then there was no way of knowing about it being purchased in Boston and appearing in Florida, but when we centralized the database into a national database then all kinds of things started to become apparent. This was among them.
Anyone who has consolidated many databases into a unified database will know what i mean.
Back in the 80's I was setting up a call center for the computer company where I worked and one of the steps was to search for duplicate serial numbers and standardize model numbers, customer names, etc. I'm sure anyone who worked with databases understands this process.
Our databases were regional, so while searching for duplicates a whole computer system suddenly disappeared from the Northeast and mysteriously showed up in Florida. I started researching thinking that the system perhaps was stolen but instead I accidentally uncovered a CIA operation. Don't know if it is still active so I won't say anything else about it except database integration can give insights and glimpses into situations that are at first very transparent.
Good point on the lottery ticket purchase being for fun. That is the way i look at it too. My lady and i take turns buying tickets waiting for the "ship to come in" and we laugh and kid that God has it in for us because we don't win... but neither of us really feel that way. If we are meant to win then we will.
In my younger days I would eat a couple of candy bars a day plus soda in volume but now I tend not to partake all that much any more. I expect to live to a ripe old age... time will tell though.
I matched 5 digits once in the Illinois lottery. If you don't play then you don't have a possibility of wining regardless of stats.
Buying a single lottery ticket twice a week for a total of two bucks will take a loonnggg time to reduce a 5 digit lottery winner back down to a zero balance.
To me it is no different that buying a coke, a candy bar or a Starbuck's coffee once a week. Just a little enjoyment, excitement and fun with a slim possibility of winning... but people do win.
We used 8" shugarts. The advantage it had over the other brand -Seagate Technology is that it ran cooler because the power was removed from the head stepping motor once it was on track/cylinder.
Al Shugart created Seagate Technology company and then lost control of it and thus created the shugart drive.
I heard that Al Shugart died a few months ago. A great mind and one of the inventors of the very first disk drive while at IBM
Nice comment. It sort of follows the glass half empty vs the glass half full quip and really extends to nearly everything we do in life.
I've been a systems analyst since 1962 and have watched the computers go from large as a room to something that is portable and yet more powerful.
The first Hard drive was huge and the heads moved by hydraulics. It had storage of 360KB or so as i recall.
It is really incredible what mankind has dreamed and have subsequently produced with no slowing down in sight. If anything the creating has only become more rapid.
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Sorry, just used my last mod point. i usually hold one in reserve for cases like this.
When I lived in Sydney, Australia area, i visited a friend in Lower Templestow near Melbourne and she and i and about five or six others went with a friend in a large cabin cruiser out past the breakwall at Portsea into the near ocean area and we were laughing, drinking and doing some fishing and all of a sudden a wall of high water was coming at us. Fortunately the engines were on and the captain immediately turned into the wave as well as he could do in the few seconds we had.
We were picked up and tossed about and then dropped into a hole of air at least several feet in depth. Fortunately no one was thrown overboard but we were all pretty shook up and the party seemed to end about then.
The captain put it to vote on whether to stay out or go back to port. Most chose to go back and the Captain wanted to verify that no damage had weakened the structure so he was obviously pleased with this choice.
And this is my small happening with a rogue wave.
I was 2nd in command of a three man Combat Targeting Team back in the 60's. Our mission was to enter the launch codes into the missile guidance section and to optically align the missile to true north.
.38 revolver and we worked with the two man concept that we knew the job and we would shoot the other if something unusual was taking place.
Our work of course caused us to carry classified information such as launch codes, war plans, etc. we had top secret crypto clearances for this work and while we were in the missile silo's actually performing our work we were protected by air police who would repel any intruders that might try to penetrate the missile site while it was open.
We each carried a sidearm usually a
To get into the missile site we had to authenticate with secret codes and one time the launch commander at the launch control facility mis-authenticated my team leader's code and so they sent out a strike team to apprehend us.
We carried launch codes and so we forced to defend them by drawing our weapons and the strike team thought we were enemies impersonating Air Force personnel trying to illegally enter a missile silo and so we all had our weapons drawn and what stopped any more escalation was that the air policeman who had guard duty with us personally knew one guy from the strike team.
Everyone there was doing what they were trained to do but the circumstances made things real hairy. I reflect sometimes on what might have happened if the two air police did not recognize each other.
Please mod parent up.. it is insightful... paranoid, but insightful.
If this was your own idea then you are definitely thinking outside of the box.
Indeed the smaller threads were made by rubbing the fibers against the hands or for larger against the leg.
For the really big threads I imagine that they probably used Rosie's legs.
You are, of course, correct in your assessment.
Your signature is strangely and eerily correct also.
"Knowledge is power. However, once you have sufficient power, knowledge is optional."
Mistakenly install the roll backwards just one time and you will never work again in the toilet paper/nuclear power industry. They don't forget nor forgive. They just wipe up the mess and insert the rods again.
Whenever I see a device that tries to be "Everything" I am taken back to the 60's to McNamara and his desire to have an airplane that had "commonality" and could serve as the "end all".
The F111 was designed to be both a fighter and a bomber. It was too heavy to land on carriers and could not carry the required equipment and payloads required by the Navy... did not even have gatlin guns on it for a while, and it was too small to carry a large payload and the range was too short to be an effective bomber.
So is the T-mobile a F111 or can these problems be worked out?
This is a time for the designer to eat his/her pride and make it work... if that is possible. It wasn't possible with the F111 and the T-mobile remains to be seen.
How about something like spending the rest of their lifetime in Athens, Ohio
And for the really bad ones... Youngstown, Ohio
"This is why companies have outside auditors for their accounting departments."
Major company I worked for in Australia had the financial comptroller cook the books for 1.75 million Australian dollars. He and his family absconded to England over a holiday weekend. The Managing Director suspected something wasn't right and wanted an outside auditor to check the books but the regional VP said "no"... don't waste the money.
Basil Brown was able to get something on all of the major players in the company so it was in the company's best interest to let Basil live free in England. Saw he and his wife at Wimbledon on TV the following year.
One has to live with themselves concerning their lifetime on Earth. Violating the trust of another individual might be easy for some... but difficult for most people I imagine.
It is easy to mistake subtle humor for a flamebait type of statement if in a hurry to moderate or those who are not in the "know" while moderating.
I am often surprised when reading a post and someone has already modded it funny and it takes a second for the humor to sink in... if it wasn't already marked "funny" then "whoose"... right over my head.
I am constantly impressed with those that do immediately see the humor or the joke/parody that goes into the posts. There are a lot of smart people with quick minds here and then there are some that are not tuned in as well as others might be.
Regardless of the mod points assigned, i enjoy your posts!
Finally a real purpose for Clippy. Even the name is appropriate.
"You seem to be trying to perform an open heart surgery..."
Sorry you were modded offtopic... it is a funny statement.
Along the same lines it is rumored that California one day will simply go flying off the planet into space by centrifugal force as the earthquakes dislodge all of the earthly connections.
This rumor may have been a metaphor but I am not sure.
that was some experience -simulated of course. Imagine what it would be like to have even a greater time lag between communication.
Thanks for sharing the URL
Agreed
An uncharged capacitor looks like a dead short initially and so the current flow is limited only by the resistance of the wiring and the internal resistance of the power supply or other source.
If the resistance approaches zero ohms then the current approaches infinite amperes. The larger the capacitance then the longer it will take to charge it fully (usually five time constants of RC to bring it to 99% fully charged)
In the early 60's i was working part time at a TV repair shop to augment my military paycheck. I was working on one of those old huge TV's in the wooden cabinet type of thing. i had traced the problem to a paper electrolytic of fair proportion.
I changed the capacitor and confidently looked at the waveform on the scope knowing now that there would be no more ripple on the line but to my amazement there was even more ripple. I looked closely at my installation job noting it was across the right terminals and the polarity was correct.
I pulled my head out of the TV cabinet to look at the schematic to envision what else might be wrong when the capacitor blew up like a small bomb leaving a boiling hot liquid paste where moments before my head was peering.
It turned out that the paper cylinder was installed backwards on the capacitor reversing the positive and negative terminals.
Even if the paper cylinder was backwards... one can still note the metal case of the capacitor being the negative terminal. I failed to do this.
This occasion added a new check I made each time for every capacitor installed after that.
My 9 mm semi auto pistol also has an orange ring around the barrel to make the police believe it is benign.
Remember the movie where the star was going to hold up a bank with a squirt gun that was in his pocket, he was nervous and pulled the trigger so when the lady behind the bank counter saw his wet pants she called him a "disgusting man"?
Since the computer system was found to be located in Florida I naturally believed it had to do with Cuba and/or Central America. This was back in 1983 or so but the report i received was that it was definitely CIA. There is more information that I am reluctant to share so I can see why you may have doubts.
As an example... what if this mainframe system suddenly appeared in a little bookstore in Miami that did not need a computer of that size. Immediately bells and alarms go off as to what it is doing there. The local engineering manager in Florida when queried simply told me that it was a CIA setup and that is all he was allowed to say about it. The bookstore was operational but was a false front to the real purpose whatever that was/is.
While the databases were regional then there was no way of knowing about it being purchased in Boston and appearing in Florida, but when we centralized the database into a national database then all kinds of things started to become apparent. This was among them.
Anyone who has consolidated many databases into a unified database will know what i mean.
Back in the 80's I was setting up a call center for the computer company where I worked and one of the steps was to search for duplicate serial numbers and standardize model numbers, customer names, etc. I'm sure anyone who worked with databases understands this process.
Our databases were regional, so while searching for duplicates a whole computer system suddenly disappeared from the Northeast and mysteriously showed up in Florida. I started researching thinking that the system perhaps was stolen but instead I accidentally uncovered a CIA operation. Don't know if it is still active so I won't say anything else about it except database integration can give insights and glimpses into situations that are at first very transparent.
This sounds like what caught Linda.
Good point on the lottery ticket purchase being for fun. That is the way i look at it too. My lady and i take turns buying tickets waiting for the "ship to come in" and we laugh and kid that God has it in for us because we don't win... but neither of us really feel that way. If we are meant to win then we will.
In my younger days I would eat a couple of candy bars a day plus soda in volume but now I tend not to partake all that much any more. I expect to live to a ripe old age... time will tell though.
Thanks for your comments.
I matched 5 digits once in the Illinois lottery. If you don't play then you don't have a possibility of wining regardless of stats.
Buying a single lottery ticket twice a week for a total of two bucks will take a loonnggg time to reduce a 5 digit lottery winner back down to a zero balance.
To me it is no different that buying a coke, a candy bar or a Starbuck's coffee once a week. Just a little enjoyment, excitement and fun with a slim possibility of winning... but people do win.
I understand that YMMV and I appreciate that too.
Along those same lines... last week i bought a mega-million ticket with no kicker (even though the kicker number is still displayed on the ticket.
06 09 18 36 39 +30
kicker# 009360
Every number was divisible by 3. I thought wow... this is a hot ticket
during the drawing on Oct 26 I matched exactly zero numbers. goes to show that things are not what we think.
Please mod parent as hilarious.
We used 8" shugarts. The advantage it had over the other brand -Seagate Technology is that it ran cooler because the power was removed from the head stepping motor once it was on track/cylinder.
Al Shugart created Seagate Technology company and then lost control of it and thus created the shugart drive.
I heard that Al Shugart died a few months ago. A great mind and one of the inventors of the very first disk drive while at IBM
Nice comment. It sort of follows the glass half empty vs the glass half full quip and really extends to nearly everything we do in life.
I've been a systems analyst since 1962 and have watched the computers go from large as a room to something that is portable and yet more powerful.
The first Hard drive was huge and the heads moved by hydraulics. It had storage of 360KB or so as i recall.
It is really incredible what mankind has dreamed and have subsequently produced with no slowing down in sight. If anything the creating has only become more rapid.