Oh, so making a joke that could bring down an airliner is OKAY if you are a candidate for the US presidential election; but, not if you are a passenger. http://rt.com/usa/news/tsa-shirt-arijit-delta-308/
DO NOT take your personal security for granted. There are pirates out there, and they are not necessarily on the high seas.
DO think through how you can lock yourself into part of the boat like it is a "safe haven", complete with a system for sending a distress message, and a way of telling pirates that you have actibated the beacon/message. (Think language cards that say a clear message about what you have done.)
DO train in the use of your safety measures; in the light, in the dark, and under water (many ship's chandlers have training versions of EPIRBs, life jackets, etc.)
DO train in righting your boat, cutting away rigging, etc. Get a short section of the toughest rigging wire rope you are using, and train in getting it cut through.
ALWAYS use emergency lines if on the upper deck. NO EXCEPTIONS.
TRAIN in single-handedly "going about" and "back-tracking along your course" (the real course "through the water", not just 180 on the heading.) Everyone who stands watches!
I agree. I work in an open plan environment, and wish that I was in a room by myself. The 'scrum' as you call it is great for sharing the overview to let everyone know some of the detail from other people's work, so that there are not clashes or double-effort. Otherwise, give me a quiet and uninterrupted environment; even give me the high-walled cobicles of Dilbert!
I am a sometimes user of a simple library database, at a volunteer organisation, that was developed in Claris Filemaker Pro 2.0 v1. This is "as old as the hills", but you might be able to find a free download! (Contact me if you'd like me to get the source files from that organisation; that might make building the application easier.)
Otherwise, LibraryThing.com looks fine, and participating there will allow lots of people to know what religious publications are about.
I seem to be the first to point out the bad spelling byhypnosec (the author) and/or bad editing by samzenpus (the approver/submitter).
The correct spelling for the UK Ministry of Defence is with a C in Defence.
This quirk of English spelling is not used in some other parts of the English-speaking world, such as where American-English is used.
So, in this context (a report on the UK i.e. Britain / England and associated identities) it is more appropriate to use the original country's spelling of the term.
My signature block has said this, subtly, for some years.
Well done, the Wireless Institute of Australia (WIA) http://www.wia.org.au/, the earliest-established Amateur Radio national organisation in the world, now in its 101st year.
And, where I am, the local radio club is 'bursting' with new folk, doing the Australian Foundation License http://www.wia.org.au/licenses/foundation/about/ and then having loads of fun on-air and in the many activities that are out there for Amateurs.
> - We [Italy] spent a shitload of money to build a tunnel to make science happen, GOOD JOB US!!
> I'm missing why Italy's contribution to CERN is worth 50% of that press release.
I agree.
What is missing is that the Italian economy is in a $#!+|0@& of trouble (but it's fixable), and this neutrino media release seems to make spending $#!+|0@&$ more into a virtue.
There is evidence in the DNA record of some regional tribes of Australian Aborigines that there was interbreeding with:
* Malacca / Macassa (modern day Indonesian) fishermen who frequented the fishing grounds of the north-west of the continent from probably by the mid-1,500s and arguably earlier;
* Portuguese discovery of the Australian landmass in the early 1500s, and contact of Portuguese sailors stranded by ship-wreck from the early 1,600s with local tribes;
* disputed but arguable Portuguese 'discovery' of the east coast of Australia, including ship wrecks and habitation, and contact with Aborigines in various areas;
* documentedcontact between early British settlers and Aborigines in eastern Australia, after 1788 into the late 1800s, included many 'tolerated' inter-marriages due to the lack of suitable female partners in the early convict/colonial days.
Yes, and I wonder how much time it would take the Sheik to walk around that, say at a rate of 2,245 furlongs per fortnight?
What?????
Well:
a. a man's walking pace is "3.5 miles per hour" (a woman's is 3 mph) = 5.6 kilometers per hour (f: 4.8);
b. but, as this is sand, I estimate the actual rate is 2/3 (66.66%) = 3.733 kph (f: 3.2);
c. the letters measure approximately 21 km around the outside (not including the middle of the As or D);
* If the H is 1,000m high, then the upper oblique strokes of the As, M and D are ~1,000m when the cross-over is taken into account;
* the under-part of the A is ~1,000m;
* the curve of the D is ~1,600m -- think of half a circle;
* take into account the 'joining pieces' between the letters...
d. a furlong per fortnight is ~1.663^-4 metres/second, so walking pace is ~2,245 furlong per fortnight;
Hence, at walking pace, in sand, the seemingly spritely 63 year old Hamad would take about 5.6 hours to walk from beach to beach at the top of the H, and (although I can find no mention of her) his wife might get there in about 6.6 hours.
If he had a hard walkway constructed, it would take around 3.75 hours (4.4hrs).
There are three of them, this time. However, they are talking about 10,000/tonne. What happens when that swarm get to low Earth orbit? Some will inevitably persist; it would only take a nudge at launch and they'll remain near the ISS. Who gets to plot all of them; and, who gets to authorise a launch through the swarm or its remnants? Hearing three is only the beginning; try tracking 10,000.
> This story was submitted by the very writer of the article linked in the story. Look at the username...
Ummmm.... This story is "self-submission". I'm yet to arrange that myself, but I do not see an issue. The story survived into prominence on its merits.
The crazy thing is that the Bill gets air-time in Congress; meanwhile, it will absorb much precious time, effort, and money that NASA administration can scarcely afford.
Is Posey really thinking that this stunt will get past his Leader?
Some more practical Bills might be:
* Republican Fiscal Responsibility Bill
* "Gift of the Gab" Bill
* The "Farce, My Arse" Bill
* The "Hanging Chad Re-institution" Bill
And the polls tell us that politicians are good for nothing. That's a laugh, too!
Just because someone designs a receiver (as a TV is) that is *poorly* designed or built, so that it is affected by "out-of-band" signals (eg Amateur Radio transmissions) does not mean that the Amateur (or owner of another transmitter) is at fault.
There are many examples of radio design where there is an assumption that poor / cheap design is countered by the remote possibility of a nearby and legal 'interference'.
This is offialdom at maybe its worst; maybe this public official (Kevin Lacy: jklacy@dot.state.nc.us) maybe has too much time on his hands. Perhaps he needs to have a little less time, or to take lots more time to think.
The story that seems to have been missed is Wikipedia's 10th anniversary, fast approaching on Saturday 15 January 2011. See http://ten.wikipedia.org/ for details of celebrations near you; or, please organise one yourself.
I predict that:
a. this is actually a problem, but that there are solutions to it;
b. the suppliers will find solutions;
c. the 'use' will have to pay;
d. afterwards, we'll wonder what the issue was and why we had to pay.
Meanwhile, we complain.
I keep telling this story **about** Vodafone, which cost me a **considerable** amount of money; and, they know it.
Quite a few years ago, not long after Vodafone arrived in Australia, I was sold a mobile plan with Vodafone using an existing handset. I inserted the Vodafone SIM, and the phone would not work. **I had not yet made one call!** The company's designated repairer agreed to have the phone "unlocked" and, weeks later, it was returned to me supposedly fixed.
I tested the phone in the store: The phone still did not work with Vodafone's SIM, but seemed to work with my old carrier's SIM. I gave it back to their designated repairer on the spot.
Weeks later the handset was returned to me and I was told that the phone was affected by water, and would cost over $1000 to fix; much more than the handset was worth, or could be replaced, even back then.
I pestered Vodafone for over a year, when they bothered to call to try to get me to pay their mounting monthly bills which I refused to pay. at the risk of repetition... **I had not yet made one call! (on Vodafone)**
My premise was that I would happily talk to their people, for hours in some cases, until I had used up the cost **of their time** that they had ascribed to my "bricked" phone (that Vodafone had "bricked".) And, I alays told them what I was doing; that I was using a headset with the phone when they rang me at work, and I was actually productive while they were not!
I regularly suggested that they buy me a new handset, which I would use with my existing Vodafone SIM. They refused. I would have used it, too! (Meanwhile, we had another handset with another company.)
Eventually, a senior manager from Vodafone who called me worked out -- in the midst of a long conversation -- that I really meant what I was saying, and "wiped" my bill. However, my parting shot to him was to say what I had said to his other people; that I would continue to tell this story ABOUT (and never 'against') Vodafone. After all, I do not want to get into any legal trouble by bad-mouthing such a prosperous company.
By the way, "Wales" does not refer to the semi-independent jurisdicdiction of the United Kingdom of Wales, a country that is part of the United Kingdom, bordered by England to its east, and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west... but to "Jimmy Wales", a founder of Wikipedia.
"Wheel" refers to the term otherwhise known as "a big big wheel" (an important person). Hence, see "wheel war", a 'strong discussion' between "wheels".
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Oh, so making a joke that could bring down an airliner is OKAY if you are a candidate for the US presidential election; but, not if you are a passenger. http://rt.com/usa/news/tsa-shirt-arijit-delta-308/
Get a story off to www.groklaw.net and ask for publicity and advice there.
DO NOT take your personal security for granted. There are pirates out there, and they are not necessarily on the high seas.
DO think through how you can lock yourself into part of the boat like it is a "safe haven", complete with a system for sending a distress message, and a way of telling pirates that you have actibated the beacon/message. (Think language cards that say a clear message about what you have done.)
DO train in the use of your safety measures; in the light, in the dark, and under water (many ship's chandlers have training versions of EPIRBs, life jackets, etc.)
DO train in righting your boat, cutting away rigging, etc. Get a short section of the toughest rigging wire rope you are using, and train in getting it cut through.
ALWAYS use emergency lines if on the upper deck. NO EXCEPTIONS.
TRAIN in single-handedly "going about" and "back-tracking along your course" (the real course "through the water", not just 180 on the heading.) Everyone who stands watches!
Then... Relax.
I agree. I work in an open plan environment, and wish that I was in a room by myself. The 'scrum' as you call it is great for sharing the overview to let everyone know some of the detail from other people's work, so that there are not clashes or double-effort. Otherwise, give me a quiet and uninterrupted environment; even give me the high-walled cobicles of Dilbert!
I am a sometimes user of a simple library database, at a volunteer organisation, that was developed in Claris Filemaker Pro 2.0 v1. This is "as old as the hills", but you might be able to find a free download! (Contact me if you'd like me to get the source files from that organisation; that might make building the application easier.)
Otherwise, LibraryThing.com looks fine, and participating there will allow lots of people to know what religious publications are about.
I seem to be the first to point out the bad spelling byhypnosec (the author) and/or bad editing by samzenpus (the approver/submitter).
The correct spelling for the UK Ministry of Defence is with a C in Defence.
This quirk of English spelling is not used in some other parts of the English-speaking world, such as where American-English is used.
So, in this context (a report on the UK i.e. Britain / England and associated identities) it is more appropriate to use the original country's spelling of the term.
Okay, I confess, I'm from VK (that's International Telecommunications Union and hence Amateur Radio license-area speak for Australia). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITU_prefix_-_amateur_and_experimental_stations/
My signature block has said this, subtly, for some years.
Well done, the Wireless Institute of Australia (WIA) http://www.wia.org.au/, the earliest-established Amateur Radio national organisation in the world, now in its 101st year.
And, where I am, the local radio club is 'bursting' with new folk, doing the Australian Foundation License http://www.wia.org.au/licenses/foundation/about/ and then having loads of fun on-air and in the many activities that are out there for Amateurs.
JA0HXV is an Amateur Radio callsign, and owner of that callsign is Shigeru Kondou. Well done, Shigeru-san.
> - We [Italy] spent a shitload of money to build a tunnel to make science happen, GOOD JOB US!!
> I'm missing why Italy's contribution to CERN is worth 50% of that press release.
I agree.
What is missing is that the Italian economy is in a $#!+|0@& of trouble (but it's fixable), and this neutrino media release seems to make spending $#!+|0@&$ more into a virtue.
> He was speaking of the future tunnel that the faster than light neutrino's already know about so they can follow it.
How sexist are you?!? (Just kidding... but not:-)
Mariastella Gelmini -- the Italian Minister of Education -- is female, and quite 'feminine'.
There is evidence in the DNA record of some regional tribes of Australian Aborigines that there was interbreeding with:
* Malacca / Macassa (modern day Indonesian) fishermen who frequented the fishing grounds of the north-west of the continent from probably by the mid-1,500s and arguably earlier;
* Portuguese discovery of the Australian landmass in the early 1500s, and contact of Portuguese sailors stranded by ship-wreck from the early 1,600s with local tribes;
* disputed but arguable Portuguese 'discovery' of the east coast of Australia, including ship wrecks and habitation, and contact with Aborigines in various areas;
* documented contact between early British settlers and Aborigines in eastern Australia, after 1788 into the late 1800s, included many 'tolerated' inter-marriages due to the lack of suitable female partners in the early convict/colonial days.
> The full judgement (PDF) is quite readable and damning.
Yes, it is well written, and readable. Justice McKinnon deserves applause for clarity, and common sense.
Quite a text for young lawyers on both sides of the 49th parallel.
The coverage in the "lower 48" seemed a bit thin, though... until now. :-)
What a pity that an honest businessman and his family have suffered over a year of separation and distress; for what? ...the Justice's point!
> 1,000 meters high and two miles long...
Yes, and I wonder how much time it would take the Sheik to walk around that, say at a rate of 2,245 furlongs per fortnight?
What?????
Well:
a. a man's walking pace is "3.5 miles per hour" (a woman's is 3 mph) = 5.6 kilometers per hour (f: 4.8);
b. but, as this is sand, I estimate the actual rate is 2/3 (66.66%) = 3.733 kph (f: 3.2);
c. the letters measure approximately 21 km around the outside (not including the middle of the As or D);
* If the H is 1,000m high, then the upper oblique strokes of the As, M and D are ~1,000m when the cross-over is taken into account;
* the under-part of the A is ~1,000m;
* the curve of the D is ~1,600m -- think of half a circle;
* take into account the 'joining pieces' between the letters...
d. a furlong per fortnight is ~1.663^-4 metres/second, so walking pace is ~2,245 furlong per fortnight;
Hence, at walking pace, in sand, the seemingly spritely 63 year old Hamad would take about 5.6 hours to walk from beach to beach at the top of the H, and (although I can find no mention of her) his wife might get there in about 6.6 hours.
If he had a hard walkway constructed, it would take around 3.75 hours (4.4hrs).
However, he'd probably drive.
Ah, well.... We're told not to be too upset if our submission is not accepted. But, I had a "prior art" submission on this. :-)
There are three of them, this time. However, they are talking about 10,000/tonne. What happens when that swarm get to low Earth orbit? Some will inevitably persist; it would only take a nudge at launch and they'll remain near the ISS. Who gets to plot all of them; and, who gets to authorise a launch through the swarm or its remnants? Hearing three is only the beginning; try tracking 10,000.
> This story was submitted by the very writer of the article linked in the story. Look at the username...
Ummmm.... This story is "self-submission". I'm yet to arrange that myself, but I do not see an issue. The story survived into prominence on its merits.
The crazy thing is that the Bill gets air-time in Congress; meanwhile, it will absorb much precious time, effort, and money that NASA administration can scarcely afford.
Is Posey really thinking that this stunt will get past his Leader?
Some more practical Bills might be:
* Republican Fiscal Responsibility Bill
* "Gift of the Gab" Bill
* The "Farce, My Arse" Bill
* The "Hanging Chad Re-institution" Bill
And the polls tell us that politicians are good for nothing. That's a laugh, too!
Hams are not all 'old'. (I would submit that your paradigm is old.)
Just because someone designs a receiver (as a TV is) that is *poorly* designed or built, so that it is affected by "out-of-band" signals (eg Amateur Radio transmissions) does not mean that the Amateur (or owner of another transmitter) is at fault. There are many examples of radio design where there is an assumption that poor / cheap design is countered by the remote possibility of a nearby and legal 'interference'.
This is offialdom at maybe its worst; maybe this public official (Kevin Lacy: jklacy@dot.state.nc.us) maybe has too much time on his hands. Perhaps he needs to have a little less time, or to take lots more time to think.
The story that seems to have been missed is Wikipedia's 10th anniversary, fast approaching on Saturday 15 January 2011. See http://ten.wikipedia.org/ for details of celebrations near you; or, please organise one yourself.
Alarm companies crying foul over the roll-out of digital fibre to the home/business is an Aussie update on the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2000_problem/.
I predict that:
a. this is actually a problem, but that there are solutions to it;
b. the suppliers will find solutions;
c. the 'use' will have to pay;
d. afterwards, we'll wonder what the issue was and why we had to pay. Meanwhile, we complain.
I keep telling this story **about** Vodafone, which cost me a **considerable** amount of money; and, they know it.
Quite a few years ago, not long after Vodafone arrived in Australia, I was sold a mobile plan with Vodafone using an existing handset. I inserted the Vodafone SIM, and the phone would not work. **I had not yet made one call!** The company's designated repairer agreed to have the phone "unlocked" and, weeks later, it was returned to me supposedly fixed.
I tested the phone in the store: The phone still did not work with Vodafone's SIM, but seemed to work with my old carrier's SIM. I gave it back to their designated repairer on the spot.
Weeks later the handset was returned to me and I was told that the phone was affected by water, and would cost over $1000 to fix; much more than the handset was worth, or could be replaced, even back then.
I pestered Vodafone for over a year, when they bothered to call to try to get me to pay their mounting monthly bills which I refused to pay. at the risk of repetition... **I had not yet made one call! (on Vodafone)**
My premise was that I would happily talk to their people, for hours in some cases, until I had used up the cost **of their time** that they had ascribed to my "bricked" phone (that Vodafone had "bricked".) And, I alays told them what I was doing; that I was using a headset with the phone when they rang me at work, and I was actually productive while they were not!
I regularly suggested that they buy me a new handset, which I would use with my existing Vodafone SIM. They refused. I would have used it, too! (Meanwhile, we had another handset with another company.)
Eventually, a senior manager from Vodafone who called me worked out -- in the midst of a long conversation -- that I really meant what I was saying, and "wiped" my bill. However, my parting shot to him was to say what I had said to his other people; that I would continue to tell this story ABOUT (and never 'against') Vodafone. After all, I do not want to get into any legal trouble by bad-mouthing such a prosperous company.
So, I just have told my story, again!
You decide.
Peter
It is not COMPLETELY obvious from the title of the SlashDot entry "Wales Supports Purging Porn From Wikipedia, so....
By the way, "Wales" does not refer to the semi-independent jurisdicdiction of the United Kingdom of Wales, a country that is part of the United Kingdom, bordered by England to its east, and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west... but to "Jimmy Wales", a founder of Wikipedia.
"Wheel" refers to the term otherwhise known as "a big big wheel" (an important person). Hence, see "wheel war", a 'strong discussion' between "wheels".
> sex... "sure beats the hell out of a ham sandwich, doesn't it?"
The Pope visits a convent and, after meeting the nuns, is about to leave.
He raises his hand in the normal way to give the sign of blessing, at the same time saying, "I vissh yor all a'penis."