1986-ish Radio Electronics magazine had a study where they took pics of ball lightning that originated from arcing around a generator onboard an old engine on a train. I will mention this since I know it's brought up further down in the discussion, the ball lightning only *originated* from the arcing, it however did NOT just follow the power lines like a Jacob's Ladder might but rather had quite the mind of its own, scaring the bejesus out of the researcher when it entered the cabin of the train and began to approach him. I should have this issue archived somewhere so I can verify this at some point soon.
That said, I do have a VR device that induces the feelings of motion in the brain through electrodes(1 on the forehead and 2 behind each ear on the "mastoid process") that when cranked high will induce visual hallucinations for a second or two...but they wouldn't make me think I was seeing ball lightning.
I've been dying for the BBC to open up the iPlayer to non-UK countries. I'm more than willing to pay a few bucks to have access to the shows I like(Doctor Who, IT Crowd, etc) but if they don't, I'll continue to do as I've been doing most of this time...downloading it and watching it. NO, I won't wait 2 weeks while BBCAmerica gets the episodes. Are ya listening BBC? I just told you that I'm willing to pay you some $$$ for access to your shows. Get your shit together!!
That said, we haven't had satellite in our house in over a year at this point and we don't watch any broadcast TV so most of what we watch comes from online viewing. With the prices of satellite being what they are and cable being as limited as it is in our area, unless the satellite companies start giving it away for free in exchange for us watching the ads(that they give us now even though we already pay), we'll be using the Net for most of our entertainment.
Yeah, I wouldn't bet my health on wikipedia's advice entirely if I were you. The poison is still present and it does cause problems. I imagine that the author of the page lived in a rural area where such lore was common(as I did) and they probably don't know any better. Seeing as how the severity of the poison is listed as "HIGHLY TOXIC, MAY BE FATAL IF EATEN!", I prefer to simply settle with some turnip greens or kale, which I find actually tastes better anyway, especially with some ham or bacon(mmm...bacon)..but I digress.
Poke doesn't become non-toxic regardless of the amount of boiling. I had to look it up a few years ago when I was considering harvesting some from our backyard.
I don't think you read GP's post well enough. The wavelength/absorption aren't going to matter if there isn't enough *energy* to cause a problem in the first place, regardless of wavelength. In other words, say it requires 30 milliwatts of power at 800nm and your scanner only supplies 1 milliwatt for its entire spectrum; there will not be enough energy to do any harm.
That's an old urban legend, usually ending with the jumper dying from the fall, but the problem with that is the cord would have already been stretching and slowing the fall long before they reached the ground. If the cord didn't stretch then it would have been a real problem; as it was, there wasn't likely much damage if the story is true. Besides, no bungee jumper with any brains is going to test something like that without using a sandbag to test it first since different weights=different stretch lengths.
What's somewhat worse about this "experiment" is that they didn't have a workable 3rd-person view. They wanted the drivers to navigate between the cones but didn't have enough of an angle to differentiate between them easily. I mean the camera view was mostly the truck, not the road; if it'd been about 10-20 ft higher, their results would have varied massively.
If you watch Eccleston, you'll find they seem to have picked him for his Tom Baker-like mannerisms. I didn't notice it until I started watching the 4th Doctor a few months ago and realized that I was seeing a future Doctor as well....
But the Timelords were always on the slightly evil side..always. I've only made it part way through the Tom Baker episodes so far but they've made it clear they are no longer a peaceful civilization as you might expect them to be.
This is the truth! They have no legal requirement "to protect and serve" except in very specific situations where they explicitly promise someone they will protect them, and that rarely happens due to the liability factor.
The parent post is NOT a troll!!!! Someone mod him(her?) up!!
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No, but the coin will sound *completely* different when dropped on a table or with other coins. As a magician I have been painfully aware of this for about 30 years.
It might disguise the contents but I tell you from experience that if you drop it on a table with other change, *something* will not sound right. I'm a magician and I have lots of coins just like this one and their "talking" is a real problem.
I actually came here to say the exact same thing about assembly. I'm teaching my kids programming on an old Z80 training board right now. It gives one better insight to the inner workings of a CPU and it is the one true "meta" language since every other language eventually becomes assembly, one way or another, when used. I know my programming skills went through the roof when I first learned Z80/6502 assembly. I wrote what I suspect was the first visual-based programming environment in 1985, a visual assembler for the Apple; if I'd only patented that idea that I thought was obvious at the time, I could be stinkin' rich. Today I can debug drivers for Windows despite the fact that I know little-to-nothing about programming for Windows. Of course one might say the developers of said drivers knew little-to-nothing as well.
"A crime (in the case of a criminal prosecution) or a cause of action (in a civil lawsuit) is said to have accrued when the event beginning its time limitation occurs. Sometimes this is the event itself that is the subject of the suit or prosecution (such as a crime or personal injury), but it may also be an event such as the discovery of a condition one wishes to redress, such as discovering a defect in a manufactured good, or in the case of controversial "repressed memory" cases where someone discovers memories of childhood sexual abuse long afterwards."
Yeah, it's still an ongoing case AFAIK. I've been scouring the news every few weeks in hopes of finding a resolution(hopefully that it is thrown out of court) but so far it hasn't been dismissed due to the statute of limitations so it seems a valid point.
Actually, it can also be the case that the statute of limitations applies when the crime was discovered, not necessarily when it was committed. I am told this is especially so if they're trying to convict someone of "habitual criminal". I only know of this because a friend had to file embezzlement charges against an employee who had been stealing from him for longer than the statute of limitations and he was able to get them convicted of the entire string of crimes stretching back several years.
In civil court one only need look at The Knack v. Run DMC where it's been since 1986 but The Knack are able to sue, so far, because they claim they knew nothing of the song "It's Tricky" until recently despite its massive popularity at the time.
Crap. Formatting again.. My reply start with "Umm, brotha.."
But this is what the summary says...
"One area to be examined is whether the panel should incorporate so-called gray literature, a term to describe nonpeer-reviewed science, in its reports. Many scientists say that such material, ranging from reports by government agencies to respected research not published in scientific journals, is crucial to seeking a complete picture of the state of climate science."
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1986-ish Radio Electronics magazine had a study where they took pics of ball lightning that originated from arcing around a generator onboard an old engine on a train. I will mention this since I know it's brought up further down in the discussion, the ball lightning only *originated* from the arcing, it however did NOT just follow the power lines like a Jacob's Ladder might but rather had quite the mind of its own, scaring the bejesus out of the researcher when it entered the cabin of the train and began to approach him. I should have this issue archived somewhere so I can verify this at some point soon.
That said, I do have a VR device that induces the feelings of motion in the brain through electrodes(1 on the forehead and 2 behind each ear on the "mastoid process") that when cranked high will induce visual hallucinations for a second or two...but they wouldn't make me think I was seeing ball lightning.
Sounds familiar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmD_8cBqhW0
I agree, it's been years and the world still hasn't adopted this remarkable color.
I've been dying for the BBC to open up the iPlayer to non-UK countries. I'm more than willing to pay a few bucks to have access to the shows I like(Doctor Who, IT Crowd, etc) but if they don't, I'll continue to do as I've been doing most of this time...downloading it and watching it. NO, I won't wait 2 weeks while BBCAmerica gets the episodes. Are ya listening BBC? I just told you that I'm willing to pay you some $$$ for access to your shows. Get your shit together!!
That said, we haven't had satellite in our house in over a year at this point and we don't watch any broadcast TV so most of what we watch comes from online viewing. With the prices of satellite being what they are and cable being as limited as it is in our area, unless the satellite companies start giving it away for free in exchange for us watching the ads(that they give us now even though we already pay), we'll be using the Net for most of our entertainment.
Yeah, I wouldn't bet my health on wikipedia's advice entirely if I were you. The poison is still present and it does cause problems. I imagine that the author of the page lived in a rural area where such lore was common(as I did) and they probably don't know any better. Seeing as how the severity of the poison is listed as "HIGHLY TOXIC, MAY BE FATAL IF EATEN!", I prefer to simply settle with some turnip greens or kale, which I find actually tastes better anyway, especially with some ham or bacon(mmm...bacon)..but I digress.
Poke doesn't become non-toxic regardless of the amount of boiling. I had to look it up a few years ago when I was considering harvesting some from our backyard.
I don't think you read GP's post well enough. The wavelength/absorption aren't going to matter if there isn't enough *energy* to cause a problem in the first place, regardless of wavelength. In other words, say it requires 30 milliwatts of power at 800nm and your scanner only supplies 1 milliwatt for its entire spectrum; there will not be enough energy to do any harm.
That's an old urban legend, usually ending with the jumper dying from the fall, but the problem with that is the cord would have already been stretching and slowing the fall long before they reached the ground. If the cord didn't stretch then it would have been a real problem; as it was, there wasn't likely much damage if the story is true. Besides, no bungee jumper with any brains is going to test something like that without using a sandbag to test it first since different weights=different stretch lengths.
What's somewhat worse about this "experiment" is that they didn't have a workable 3rd-person view. They wanted the drivers to navigate between the cones but didn't have enough of an angle to differentiate between them easily. I mean the camera view was mostly the truck, not the road; if it'd been about 10-20 ft higher, their results would have varied massively.
If you watch Eccleston, you'll find they seem to have picked him for his Tom Baker-like mannerisms. I didn't notice it until I started watching the 4th Doctor a few months ago and realized that I was seeing a future Doctor as well....
But the Timelords were always on the slightly evil side..always. I've only made it part way through the Tom Baker episodes so far but they've made it clear they are no longer a peaceful civilization as you might expect them to be.
This is the truth! They have no legal requirement "to protect and serve" except in very specific situations where they explicitly promise someone they will protect them, and that rarely happens due to the liability factor.
One might say that him suing equates to "asshattery", crazy or not.
MITM was made LOTS simpler by Moxie Marlinspike... http://www.thoughtcrime.org/software/sslstrip/
That wasn't the topic at hand, so I didn't mention it.
Have you forgotten that cassette tapes only recorded *within* human hearing ranges?
Already done, though I didn't use a C= 64, I used a Z-80 training board.
I can haz +1 internets?
The parent post is NOT a troll!!!! Someone mod him(her?) up!!
No, but the coin will sound *completely* different when dropped on a table or with other coins. As a magician I have been painfully aware of this for about 30 years.
It might disguise the contents but I tell you from experience that if you drop it on a table with other change, *something* will not sound right. I'm a magician and I have lots of coins just like this one and their "talking" is a real problem.
I actually came here to say the exact same thing about assembly. I'm teaching my kids programming on an old Z80 training board right now. It gives one better insight to the inner workings of a CPU and it is the one true "meta" language since every other language eventually becomes assembly, one way or another, when used. I know my programming skills went through the roof when I first learned Z80/6502 assembly. I wrote what I suspect was the first visual-based programming environment in 1985, a visual assembler for the Apple; if I'd only patented that idea that I thought was obvious at the time, I could be stinkin' rich. Today I can debug drivers for Windows despite the fact that I know little-to-nothing about programming for Windows. Of course one might say the developers of said drivers knew little-to-nothing as well.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_limitations
"A crime (in the case of a criminal prosecution) or a cause of action (in a civil lawsuit) is said to have accrued when the event beginning its time limitation occurs. Sometimes this is the event itself that is the subject of the suit or prosecution (such as a crime or personal injury), but it may also be an event such as the discovery of a condition one wishes to redress, such as discovering a defect in a manufactured good, or in the case of controversial "repressed memory" cases where someone discovers memories of childhood sexual abuse long afterwards."
Yeah, it's still an ongoing case AFAIK. I've been scouring the news every few weeks in hopes of finding a resolution(hopefully that it is thrown out of court) but so far it hasn't been dismissed due to the statute of limitations so it seems a valid point.
Actually, it can also be the case that the statute of limitations applies when the crime was discovered, not necessarily when it was committed. I am told this is especially so if they're trying to convict someone of "habitual criminal". I only know of this because a friend had to file embezzlement charges against an employee who had been stealing from him for longer than the statute of limitations and he was able to get them convicted of the entire string of crimes stretching back several years.
In civil court one only need look at The Knack v. Run DMC where it's been since 1986 but The Knack are able to sue, so far, because they claim they knew nothing of the song "It's Tricky" until recently despite its massive popularity at the time.
Crap. Formatting again.. My reply start with "Umm, brotha.."
But this is what the summary says...
"One area to be examined is whether the panel should incorporate so-called gray literature, a term to describe nonpeer-reviewed science, in its reports. Many scientists say that such material, ranging from reports by government agencies to respected research not published in scientific journals, is crucial to seeking a complete picture of the state of climate science."