These are not cheap, or common. They are likely found in places where maps, charts, technical drawings, or similar are printed on large-format printers. I would be asking friends who work in government offices or land-planning areas whether they have a large-format printer (and an associated scanner) somewhere, and then see about arranging a "side-job" out of business hours.
The scanned images are quite large, so expect to also bring several CDs or DVDs to transfer the files.
... university... I need to go to their office and have my finger prints taken for the purposes of clocking in and out of work.
There are numerous ways to implement biometric identification http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometrics. I don't need to look at the Wikipedia entry; I have personally had my data taken for systems using: eye scan, hand scan, and fingerprint.
Some examples of biomerics:
* I suspect that you have not been to a computer store recently, and seen many laptops have a fingerprint scanner as a security device. It's almost difficult to buy a laptop without such a system.
* You're probably too young to have been interested in "The West Wing". In that show, a palm scanner is used for access to the secure briefing room.
So, my advice is, "Get over it." These folk are making some place secure, and that's probably not a bad thing.
-- furball (2853) said, "Someone hijacks a flight passing through US airspace but not landing in it to pull off an attack similar to the attack on the World Trade Center."
Let's take the next steps in this line of logic:
- There's a scheduled flight within another country that is not meant to enter the USA's airspace.
- The aircraft has the range to enter the USA's airspace.
- Therefore, there is a potential for the aircraft to be hijacked and flown into the USA's airspace.
- Therefore, the USA claims the right to require similar draconian measures used for flights into and within the USA to prevent such terrotism.
Let's work out which countries might be covered by this logic.
- Any country from which a short to medium range airliner may take off and fly to the USA, obviously including Canada, Mexico, Caribean islands including Cuba (oops, change of USA's policy required!), plus various countries in the north of South America, many Pacific Island nations, Russia, Iceland, Greenland (aka Denmark).
- Any country from which a long range airliner may take off and fly to the USA, obviously including China, North Kora, South Korea, Japan, and many other eastern Asian countries, remaining Pacific Island nations, Australia, New Zealand, England, Ireland, most western European nations, many west African nations...
I don't think that the USA is going to get that kind of cooperation. I think that these countries might decide to impose measures for their own reasons, but not just for the USA's reasons.
I have been modded to "Offtopic" for the main reply which talked about the referenced article's spelling and grammar.
I was trying to make a point about how easy it is to be distracted from the topic (as in "goes badly" in the article's title "When religion and games intersect--and how it often goes badly") by extraneous issues (like spelling and grammar, or religion.)
It obviously takes more than just a few lines to impress my fellow/. mods:)
I beg to differ with your question. Think of the solar system comprising the sun, planets of various sizes and compositions (including several "gas planets" that are, arguably, just slightly-too-small proto-stars, and right out to the "scattered disc" and even the Oort cloud. So, from Mercury outwards*, there are objects that orbit the sun. Distance, like size, does not matter: It's all orbital mechanics. (* And, yes, some objects notably comets 'orbit' - for some of their regular orbital period - well inside the orbit of Mercury then spend a great deal of the orbit a great distance further out in the solar system.)
At least we know that there will be a system like this. In many countries it is suspected, there's a "wink and a nod", someone says there's such a system, etc, but there's no proof. In India, there will be no doubt.
Sarah,
I could envisage a silicon nitride crystal (as described) having a mirrored surface attached, and being used to route light into various paths depending on the applied light pressure -- a multiple path switch. Is this possible? Does it make sense? Or, am I mis-reading what may be possible by the deformation you describe?
Peter
I spent this last Saturday morning wandering around the computer aisles of a large retail electronics shop in Sydney, Australia, trying hard to avoid the "shop assistants". Their assistance seemes to involve trying to up-sell me from a sub-notebook to a "full-sized" laptop.
What struck me was the stickers saying that the larger/newer/better machines had "free upgrade to Windoze 7" (well, wordz to that effect). Meanwhile, the simpler machines had no such sticker, and were destined to be Vista/XP slaves for... well, a while, until Micro$oft lets these OSs go into limbo. They were generally Centrino and low-end Duo machines -- not slouches, just so "last year".
Am I surprised that there might be "hidden charges"?
Well, I'm as surprised as I was to look in the directory structure of the machines and to find that there was typically about a 20GB "recovery" drive, 'hidden' as a D drive, that I could not readily access and find what was in there. Usually, the 160/320GB drive in the machines had this ~20GB mystery which meant that in the few minutes of tinkering at the store I could not explore it and discover its secrets. Then, the 'pristine' C drive had about 60-75GB of "system" residing on it. Well, I assume that there demo machines did not have more than perhaps 10MB of demo software. (I'd feel that I'd need only about 2-3MB to do the tricks they seemed to pull in flashy good-lloks material.)
So, what does this all say about Windoze 7 upgrade?
Cred: Some years ago I 'engineered' and essentially built a community radio station.
Will you ever need to stream direct from the backup to air? (Go and ask the management and the other techos: "ever".)
Why? This will answer what speed you need to transfer data both to and FROM the backup, and whether you need to take any special measures to ensure that there are no bottlenecks and single points of failure in the path. And, you'll find out whether the Master Control/studio needs to 'control' this path and so what you'll need to build in at Control.
What does the Production department need for editing?
Why? Someone else has discussed versions, and from my experience there is at least a several-to-one requirement for digital space during editing. It also answers why the editors, at their suite(s), may need similar 'control' as for Master Control.
Is the station using a control computer to put content to air?
Why? Almost certainly, is the answer. You'll have to not only give Master Control a 'manual' system, but provide some way for the control computer to stream to air, and they'll be subtly different so "get over it" and plan that way.
What happens when a drive/video coder/etc blows in some system? Can you be off air? What's the time for a fix?
Why? If your station can be off air then you fix at the next available opportunity; but, if you must be on air (like a 'commercial' station) then you have to plan and execute a solution like the commercial one, only cheaper.
Put-downs. I can also say that you need to work out how to detect even the slightest tendency in yourself to "put down" your wife, because that would not have you being a true team player. Just DO NOT allow yourself to talk down that person you love, even in the darkest recesses of your mind's "self-talk" where those thoughts might never make it to your larynx or the keyboard. And, yes, talking your partner down can become insidious within yourself, let alone if expressed in words. Someone I respected and looked up to in many things was a constant "talker-down" of his wife, who constantly 'agreed' so that he would shut up; but, it was not pretty to see.
Love. You have said that you love her. Very good. I urge you, from now on, to never say it lightly, or as a joke. To her, the saying by you of the "three magic words" (I love you) are imbued with a mystic, therapeutic, comforting, wonderful, relaxing, joyous meaning.
The words must be felt by you and said with your full conviction on every occasion. Preferably, when ever you feel it (and, aren't email and SMS wonderful innovations for this.) That's team play!
There may be times when you think that just by saying them (e.g. without truly meaning it, just for fun, to stop a fight, because you think she will be happier if you do, etc) will have the 'magic' effect; but this is not true. And, never qualify these words; no adding "... if you do/be/like/have this/that/other", etc.
Sun-set. The sun never sets on a marriage, except in one respect. Never "let the sun set" on an issue between you; spend the time and discuss it (fix it) so that it does not become a multi-day catastrophe. You might not be concerned, sleep on it and probably forget it, but she will worry over it through the night and until it IS fixed. You do not need her concerned! You need her "right", and the two of you as a team.
Together-ness. Others are telling you how to do things together. That's team play. What you share will change as you both grow. That's still team play. And, there's always one really fun way to have together-ness:) and that's really "team play".
Firstly, like Gospodin (547743), I looked at the headline story and smelled a rat in the methodology. Internal Rate of Return (IIR) (aka "Time Value of Money") works to 'normalise' the figures to "today-dollars". Not only is there an efficiency reduction, the value of $3,000 now is reduced by the rate of inflation over the period, which on face value was not counted by the article's author with the effect that the pay-back period is lengthened. I'll accept the figures by Gospodin (547743).
Secondly, I'm in Australia, where the Federal Government has just abruptly cancelled two rebate schemes and thereby markedly increased the cost of solar systems to consumers. There is some politics involved, but the consumer who was having a system installed in the last few weeks suddenly has a very significant real cost increase on the systems, and prospective customers are cancelling in great numbers. Great outcome!
What a pity! I also learned HTML code there. My first serious site was also at Geocities. It was easily made, readily updated, and accessible.
However....
The problem came, for me, when I tried to update it one day and, somehow, the login and password details had 'morphed'. No, I had not forgotten them! The next problem was that, while I tried for several months at first, then every six months or so since, I have been unable to get ANY reponse from Geocities so-called 'help-desk' (or 'management') to resolve the matter. Not one response!
Hence, my site remains, a testiment to '90s site tastes, but only due to inattention through inability to update, OR DELETE (or get Geocities to delete), the site. And, no, I will not be giving its address.
The 'pirates' are heavily modifying the commercially available Amateur Radio transceivers with 'outboard' devices to be able to use these 'bent-pipe' transponders (what goes in comes back out) on the US military satellites.
At the end of the story, the Brazillian Amateur Radio operator, at a meeting with other Amateurs, demonstrates a radio that (legally) can listen to the transmissions from these US military satellites (how does any government stop the use of a radio receiver).
This is NOT a story about "rogues in Amateur Radio"; this IS a story about people subverting a valuable public resource (Amateur Radio, and the US military satellites).
This could be the greatest mother-in-law joke: the server that is usually fine, but "has its moments".
There are all the aunts and uncles, cousins, and nephews, nieces, and their spouses, with all their familial relationships and occasional infighting. (Why can't they communicate?)
Oh, plus a special case of 'family' for cream on the cake: former boy/girl friends of children and those in the last category.
We now see the real work of the Key Atomic Benefits Office Of Mankind (K.A.B.O.O.M.)... a fictional organization in the film "The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear".
I agree about the copy editing. This is a discipline all of its own. My wife has just completed a 2 year course (in 12 months) to qualify as an editor. There is a 'language' to the editing marks that leaves me somewhat stumped, but is obvious to those in the know.
I also heard her say, on a regular basis through the course, that they are taught to "edit without changing the writer's voice".
So, if you are editing your own work, be careful that you edit in your own voice. (I recently wrote (most of) a 50,000 word novel for the National Novel Writing Month and found myself editing on the fly and in some cases editing out good dialogue and making it 'wooden'. Then, I recalled my wife's words, and the words flowed much better in my own 'voice'.)
Try to spell her birth initials by using gemstones. Probably cheaper, and also definitely a talking point. (BTW... The initial could be 'in' the name of the stone.) You'll probably get the same "how thoughtful" reaction from her friends and acquaintances, and *not* get the eye-roll as well.
AMSAT-OSCAR-7 (AO-7), launched 15 November 1974, is the oldest (semi-)operational Amateur Radio satellite. Its software has not been upgraded since launch (unlike many NASA and other spacecraft.)
From the detailed description, "AMSAT-OSCAR 7 contains two basic experimental repeater packages, redundant command systems, two experimental telemetry systems, and a store-and-forward message storage unit. The spacecraft in solar powered, weighs 65 pounds, and has a three-year anticipated lifetime.... AO-7 became non-operational in mid 1981 due to battery failure . In 2002 one of the shorted batteries became an open and now the spacecraft is able to run off solar panels. For this reason it is not usuable in eclipse...." and elsewhere, "Redundant command decoders of a design similar to the unit proven highly successful in OSCAR 6 will be flown. The decoder has provisions for 35 separate functions...."
The telemetry system is operational; the command system is partially operational.
Have another look at your post (case), then read this.
1. I have said for years that people should obey the speed limit. I do!
2. If you want to do another speed on any given road then you have a simple course of action:
a. Form a local action group to convince the elected officials to require the appointed officials to set the speed on that road that you wish. (Note: I said it was simple, not easy; or quick!)
b. If the elected officials will not do as you wish, then get your action group REALLY motivated and elect officials (probably a majority) who WILL do what you wish. (Note: This may require you to become one of the majority, or significant minority, of elected officials that it will take to achieve the desired result.)
As I say to people, until and unless you take some legally sanctioned action along these lines, then obey the law AND/OR don't become angry when caught speeding.
By the way, this will apply equally well in any country where elected officials govern the actions of appointed officials. Please fit the model to your situation. For instance, in Australia where I live, we have elected State and Territory governments that make the road rules; they have 'appointed' bureaucracies that decide the speed limits and enforce them; the 'local government' (read, town and shire councils) do not have these powers.
And, your (Score:2), versus my original post's (Score:1), just shows that some moderators have a different view of the world than when I moderate.:-)... really!:-)
The 'pinkie' ads have become part of social conversation. It only needs two people to see something really silly going on, typically by a young(ish) man, and someone does the 'pinkie'. The ads also gave permission for men to disapprove of other men's behaviour, and even in front of women! I did the 'pinkie' to a woman the other day when we saw some stupid behaviour: We both appreciated that the other had disapproved.
And, your (Score:2) versus my original post's (Score:1) just shows that some moderators have a different view of the world to when I moderate.:-)... really!:-)
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There are a few makers of large-format scanners. Océ is one. http://global.oce.com/products/wideformat/technical-documents/scanners/default.aspx
These are not cheap, or common. They are likely found in places where maps, charts, technical drawings, or similar are printed on large-format printers. I would be asking friends who work in government offices or land-planning areas whether they have a large-format printer (and an associated scanner) somewhere, and then see about arranging a "side-job" out of business hours.
The scanned images are quite large, so expect to also bring several CDs or DVDs to transfer the files.
There are numerous ways to implement biometric identification http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometrics. I don't need to look at the Wikipedia entry; I have personally had my data taken for systems using: eye scan, hand scan, and fingerprint.
Some examples of biomerics:
* I suspect that you have not been to a computer store recently, and seen many laptops have a fingerprint scanner as a security device. It's almost difficult to buy a laptop without such a system.
* You're probably too young to have been interested in "The West Wing". In that show, a palm scanner is used for access to the secure briefing room.
So, my advice is, "Get over it." These folk are making some place secure, and that's probably not a bad thing.
-- furball (2853) said, "Someone hijacks a flight passing through US airspace but not landing in it to pull off an attack similar to the attack on the World Trade Center."
Let's take the next steps in this line of logic:
- There's a scheduled flight within another country that is not meant to enter the USA's airspace.
- The aircraft has the range to enter the USA's airspace.
- Therefore, there is a potential for the aircraft to be hijacked and flown into the USA's airspace.
- Therefore, the USA claims the right to require similar draconian measures used for flights into and within the USA to prevent such terrotism.
Let's work out which countries might be covered by this logic.
- Any country from which a short to medium range airliner may take off and fly to the USA, obviously including Canada, Mexico, Caribean islands including Cuba (oops, change of USA's policy required!), plus various countries in the north of South America, many Pacific Island nations, Russia, Iceland, Greenland (aka Denmark).
- Any country from which a long range airliner may take off and fly to the USA, obviously including China, North Kora, South Korea, Japan, and many other eastern Asian countries, remaining Pacific Island nations, Australia, New Zealand, England, Ireland, most western European nations, many west African nations...
I don't think that the USA is going to get that kind of cooperation. I think that these countries might decide to impose measures for their own reasons, but not just for the USA's reasons.
I have been modded to "Offtopic" for the main reply which talked about the referenced article's spelling and grammar.
I was trying to make a point about how easy it is to be distracted from the topic (as in "goes badly" in the article's title "When religion and games intersect--and how it often goes badly") by extraneous issues (like spelling and grammar, or religion.)
It obviously takes more than just a few lines to impress my fellow /. mods :)
The grammar and spelling in the article are NOT good. The author, Michael Thompson, -- or "ars technica" -- should get an editor.
"In a move supported by a pareto of cardinals, Pope Bernadette XVI has 'come out' as the first transgendered pontif."
Her Holiness was quick to say, "This does not mean that I am a transvestite! I just wear dresses!"
"I have decided to add another title to my list: She Who Must Be Obeyed," she said.
I beg to differ with your question. Think of the solar system comprising the sun, planets of various sizes and compositions (including several "gas planets" that are, arguably, just slightly-too-small proto-stars, and right out to the "scattered disc" and even the Oort cloud. So, from Mercury outwards*, there are objects that orbit the sun. Distance, like size, does not matter: It's all orbital mechanics. (* And, yes, some objects notably comets 'orbit' - for some of their regular orbital period - well inside the orbit of Mercury then spend a great deal of the orbit a great distance further out in the solar system.)
Congenital Insensitivity to Pain with anhidrosis (CIPA) was the subject of a re-run of the TV show "House" episode "Insensitive" (S3 Ep14) that I saw just last night here in Australia. It aired first in Feb 2007 so would have been written and produced in late 2006; so, 3 years from art to real life.
Or, in my case, one day!
At least we know that there will be a system like this. In many countries it is suspected, there's a "wink and a nod", someone says there's such a system, etc, but there's no proof. In India, there will be no doubt.
Sarah, I could envisage a silicon nitride crystal (as described) having a mirrored surface attached, and being used to route light into various paths depending on the applied light pressure -- a multiple path switch. Is this possible? Does it make sense? Or, am I mis-reading what may be possible by the deformation you describe? Peter
I spent this last Saturday morning wandering around the computer aisles of a large retail electronics shop in Sydney, Australia, trying hard to avoid the "shop assistants". Their assistance seemes to involve trying to up-sell me from a sub-notebook to a "full-sized" laptop.
What struck me was the stickers saying that the larger/newer/better machines had "free upgrade to Windoze 7" (well, wordz to that effect). Meanwhile, the simpler machines had no such sticker, and were destined to be Vista/XP slaves for... well, a while, until Micro$oft lets these OSs go into limbo. They were generally Centrino and low-end Duo machines -- not slouches, just so "last year".
Am I surprised that there might be "hidden charges"?
Well, I'm as surprised as I was to look in the directory structure of the machines and to find that there was typically about a 20GB "recovery" drive, 'hidden' as a D drive, that I could not readily access and find what was in there. Usually, the 160/320GB drive in the machines had this ~20GB mystery which meant that in the few minutes of tinkering at the store I could not explore it and discover its secrets. Then, the 'pristine' C drive had about 60-75GB of "system" residing on it. Well, I assume that there demo machines did not have more than perhaps 10MB of demo software. (I'd feel that I'd need only about 2-3MB to do the tricks they seemed to pull in flashy good-lloks material.)
So, what does this all say about Windoze 7 upgrade?
Caveat emptor.
Cred: Some years ago I 'engineered' and essentially built a community radio station.
Will you ever need to stream direct from the backup to air? (Go and ask the management and the other techos: "ever".)
Why? This will answer what speed you need to transfer data both to and FROM the backup, and whether you need to take any special measures to ensure that there are no bottlenecks and single points of failure in the path. And, you'll find out whether the Master Control/studio needs to 'control' this path and so what you'll need to build in at Control.
What does the Production department need for editing?
Why? Someone else has discussed versions, and from my experience there is at least a several-to-one requirement for digital space during editing. It also answers why the editors, at their suite(s), may need similar 'control' as for Master Control.
Is the station using a control computer to put content to air?
Why? Almost certainly, is the answer. You'll have to not only give Master Control a 'manual' system, but provide some way for the control computer to stream to air, and they'll be subtly different so "get over it" and plan that way.
What happens when a drive/video coder/etc blows in some system? Can you be off air? What's the time for a fix?
Why? If your station can be off air then you fix at the next available opportunity; but, if you must be on air (like a 'commercial' station) then you have to plan and execute a solution like the commercial one, only cheaper.
I heartily agree with "Honestly: be honest, and stick together as a team" as good advice on Navigating a Geek Marriage -- and any marriage. I affirm those comments through these of my own:
Put-downs. I can also say that you need to work out how to detect even the slightest tendency in yourself to "put down" your wife, because that would not have you being a true team player. Just DO NOT allow yourself to talk down that person you love, even in the darkest recesses of your mind's "self-talk" where those thoughts might never make it to your larynx or the keyboard. And, yes, talking your partner down can become insidious within yourself, let alone if expressed in words. Someone I respected and looked up to in many things was a constant "talker-down" of his wife, who constantly 'agreed' so that he would shut up; but, it was not pretty to see.
Love. You have said that you love her. Very good. I urge you, from now on, to never say it lightly, or as a joke. To her, the saying by you of the "three magic words" ( I love you ) are imbued with a mystic, therapeutic, comforting, wonderful, relaxing, joyous meaning.
The words must be felt by you and said with your full conviction on every occasion. Preferably, when ever you feel it (and, aren't email and SMS wonderful innovations for this.) That's team play!
There may be times when you think that just by saying them (e.g. without truly meaning it, just for fun, to stop a fight, because you think she will be happier if you do, etc) will have the 'magic' effect; but this is not true. And, never qualify these words; no adding "... if you do/be/like/have this/that/other", etc.
Sun-set. The sun never sets on a marriage, except in one respect. Never "let the sun set" on an issue between you; spend the time and discuss it (fix it) so that it does not become a multi-day catastrophe. You might not be concerned, sleep on it and probably forget it, but she will worry over it through the night and until it IS fixed. You do not need her concerned! You need her "right", and the two of you as a team.
Together-ness. Others are telling you how to do things together. That's team play. What you share will change as you both grow. That's still team play. And, there's always one really fun way to have together-ness :) and that's really "team play".
Firstly, like Gospodin (547743), I looked at the headline story and smelled a rat in the methodology. Internal Rate of Return (IIR) (aka "Time Value of Money") works to 'normalise' the figures to "today-dollars". Not only is there an efficiency reduction, the value of $3,000 now is reduced by the rate of inflation over the period, which on face value was not counted by the article's author with the effect that the pay-back period is lengthened. I'll accept the figures by Gospodin (547743).
Secondly, I'm in Australia, where the Federal Government has just abruptly cancelled two rebate schemes and thereby markedly increased the cost of solar systems to consumers. There is some politics involved, but the consumer who was having a system installed in the last few weeks suddenly has a very significant real cost increase on the systems, and prospective customers are cancelling in great numbers. Great outcome!
What a pity! I also learned HTML code there. My first serious site was also at Geocities. It was easily made, readily updated, and accessible.
However....
The problem came, for me, when I tried to update it one day and, somehow, the login and password details had 'morphed'. No, I had not forgotten them! The next problem was that, while I tried for several months at first, then every six months or so since, I have been unable to get ANY reponse from Geocities so-called 'help-desk' (or 'management') to resolve the matter. Not one response!
Hence, my site remains, a testiment to '90s site tastes, but only due to inattention through inability to update, OR DELETE (or get Geocities to delete), the site. And, no, I will not be giving its address.
Please note, these are NOT legitimate Amateur Radio operators, nor are they operating through Amateur Radio satellites.
The 'pirates' are heavily modifying the commercially available Amateur Radio transceivers with 'outboard' devices to be able to use these 'bent-pipe' transponders (what goes in comes back out) on the US military satellites.
At the end of the story, the Brazillian Amateur Radio operator, at a meeting with other Amateurs, demonstrates a radio that (legally) can listen to the transmissions from these US military satellites (how does any government stop the use of a radio receiver).
This is NOT a story about "rogues in Amateur Radio"; this IS a story about people subverting a valuable public resource (Amateur Radio, and the US military satellites).
_.. . ._ _. ._ _ _ ._ _ . .._ ._. !
This could be the greatest mother-in-law joke: the server that is usually fine, but "has its moments".
There are all the aunts and uncles, cousins, and nephews, nieces, and their spouses, with all their familial relationships and occasional infighting. (Why can't they communicate?)
Oh, plus a special case of 'family' for cream on the cake: former boy/girl friends of children and those in the last category.
We now see the real work of the Key Atomic Benefits Office Of Mankind (K.A.B.O.O.M.)... a fictional organization in the film "The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear".
I agree about the copy editing. This is a discipline all of its own. My wife has just completed a 2 year course (in 12 months) to qualify as an editor. There is a 'language' to the editing marks that leaves me somewhat stumped, but is obvious to those in the know.
I also heard her say, on a regular basis through the course, that they are taught to "edit without changing the writer's voice".
So, if you are editing your own work, be careful that you edit in your own voice. (I recently wrote (most of) a 50,000 word novel for the National Novel Writing Month and found myself editing on the fly and in some cases editing out good dialogue and making it 'wooden'. Then, I recalled my wife's words, and the words flowed much better in my own 'voice'.)
OpenOffice.org is what I used.
Try to spell her birth initials by using gemstones. Probably cheaper, and also definitely a talking point. (BTW... The initial could be 'in' the name of the stone.) You'll probably get the same "how thoughtful" reaction from her friends and acquaintances, and *not* get the eye-roll as well.
Yes, the title should have read AMSAT-OSCAR-6 (AO-7).
From the detailed description, "AMSAT-OSCAR 7 contains two basic experimental repeater packages, redundant command systems, two experimental telemetry systems, and a store-and-forward message storage unit. The spacecraft in solar powered, weighs 65 pounds, and has a three-year anticipated lifetime.... AO-7 became non-operational in mid 1981 due to battery failure . In 2002 one of the shorted batteries became an open and now the spacecraft is able to run off solar panels. For this reason it is not usuable in eclipse...." and elsewhere, "Redundant command decoders of a design similar to the unit proven highly successful in OSCAR 6 will be flown. The decoder has provisions for 35 separate functions...."
The telemetry system is operational; the command system is partially operational.
Have another look at your post (case), then read this.
1. I have said for years that people should obey the speed limit. I do!
2. If you want to do another speed on any given road then you have a simple course of action:
a. Form a local action group to convince the elected officials to require the appointed officials to set the speed on that road that you wish. (Note: I said it was simple, not easy; or quick!)
b. If the elected officials will not do as you wish, then get your action group REALLY motivated and elect officials (probably a majority) who WILL do what you wish. (Note: This may require you to become one of the majority, or significant minority, of elected officials that it will take to achieve the desired result.)
As I say to people, until and unless you take some legally sanctioned action along these lines, then obey the law AND/OR don't become angry when caught speeding.
By the way, this will apply equally well in any country where elected officials govern the actions of appointed officials. Please fit the model to your situation. For instance, in Australia where I live, we have elected State and Territory governments that make the road rules; they have 'appointed' bureaucracies that decide the speed limits and enforce them; the 'local government' (read, town and shire councils) do not have these powers.
Right glad am I that you enjoyed it!
And, your (Score:2), versus my original post's (Score:1), just shows that some moderators have a different view of the world than when I moderate. :-) ... really! :-)
The 'pinkie' ads have become part of social conversation. It only needs two people to see something really silly going on, typically by a young(ish) man, and someone does the 'pinkie'. The ads also gave permission for men to disapprove of other men's behaviour, and even in front of women! I did the 'pinkie' to a woman the other day when we saw some stupid behaviour: We both appreciated that the other had disapproved.
Spread the word!
Right glad am I that you enjoyed it!
And, your (Score:2) versus my original post's (Score:1) just shows that some moderators have a different view of the world to when I moderate. :-) ... really! :-)