I consider myself an educated person, I'm a member of Mensa so I supposedly have brains. My job requires logic and reasoning, and things making sense is important. I have no mental conditions, wasn't on any drugs, and I'm agnostic. With that said, I have experienced "ghostly" events firsthand, multiple times. Examples: Watching tv + doing homework and a picture flew across the room from it's place on a brick wall as if struck with a backhand, 10+ feet. (no strange air movement, no earthquake, no person standing nearby, no animals, no reason at all I could discover why). I've seen doorhandles wiggle, doors open fully all the way against the opposite wall, then shut by themselves. Other things that are just... weird. If these things had not happened to me personally I wouldn't have believed it. Do I believe in ghosts? I am not sure, but I believe there are unexplained things that defy my understanding at the moment.
This wasn't a ghosthunters "I got a cold flash, Ooh EM field spiked, it must be a ghost!" sort of event, but real physical events witnessed with others at the time. I wish I could explain it, I wish these sort of events happened more than a handful of times over a decade+ of living in that house. I wish there was repeatability. I wish there was proof. Wishing all of the things needed for any scientific analysis of anything. If for no other reason than I don't like mysteries that I can't figure out.
So with all that said, I'd welcome a class on UFOs or other phenomena if it involved the full skeptical approach on discovery, data analysis, and testing hypothesis. I don't know how you handle the 'one in a million' sort of events that qualify as a UFO. From a sociology or anthropology perspective that would be interesting too - just learning what leads a person to believe something and more insight into how humans work could be fascinating.
I considered posting this anonymously but oh well, I've done far worse than accept that I don't know all of the laws of physics. Besides, someday I'd like to figure out a logical reason to what the heck happened. Or at least figure out how to make it repeatable, it'd make the house value skyrocket!
Heck you can see people in revolutionary gear in the Aimee Allen Ron Paul video well before '09, from some Ron Paul tea parties of '07 and '08. Sadly the screaming maniacs on TV and Sarah Palin have made anything called a 'tea party' an utter joke.
The current tea baggers remind me of Microsoft's take on Java, embrace and extend until all resemblance to the original is gone.
The last I knew, $20 was the price to get out of a speeding ticket in Chicago with a discreet palming while resting your hand along the open window. Although it's been a decade so prices may have went up some.
Just nerds? Tiger woods could have saved himself millions in lost endorsements by having a harem of them. Wonder if that would count as a business write off?
I've seen NICs that default to a specific MAC when they start to go bad, but are otherwise working. That can cause bad networking like at the school you mentioned. My guess is the local store got a bunch of returns, tested them in house and saw they worked, then resold them. I have a few of these IDE NICs \if anyone's interested in this unique feature...
Some power companies offer 'off peak metering' that charges far less for the off peak times. They put in a smart meter for timing and I've seen bills drop by 2/3rds. Power from 7am - 7pm weekdays is normal, anything other than that (Evenings, weekends, holidays) is just a fraction of the cost. For the normal person that's when you're washing clothes, cooking, using lights anyways so it helps without smart equipment.
The funny thing, power companies often don't tell people about this. I've had people that worked for a power company that offers it not know about it. If you call and ask the service reps may not know about it. But if you say you'll be putting in oh, electric heat, or a new on demand electric water heater, and are looking for ways to save money on electric bills they'll bounce you to the right person. Even if you never do install a new product it saves money.
The last Zelda on the Wii had all the hallmarks of adventure, find the clues and find some widget, which you'll need to use in the next area. A little more complex than King's quest but basically the same.
I tried the wii wheel but the control of the nunchuk is far more precise and easier. It also feels more natural - I guess so many years of a mouse/keyboard combo for a FPS led to this.
You're absolutely right. At the federal level 20% of spending goes to defense, 18% to discretionary spending, the rest for mandated obligations (Medicare, social security, debt repayment). When 2/3rd of all money is already spoken for it makes every penny that much harder to get for projects.
The government has a few unemployment figures. The news reports the standard UC 3 one, the "People drawing unemployment". The UC 6 figure is for people drawing unemployment, people no longer drawing because it ran out, and underemployment (Being cut to 20 hours instead of 40, being hired to flip burgers after losing a white collar job, etc). This number is currently 16%. So the economy is in pretty sad shape.
How about this one then - Zeus is like a Toyota. It keeps going and going, no matter how hard you try to put on the brakes to its activities. However after a long fight someone found a way to hit the brakes, emergency brakes, positioned a cop car in front of, and slowed it down enough to yank the key out. Troyak and Group 3 are like Toyota car dealerships. All of their cars (Servers) are now sitting idle because no one in their right mind wants to go anywhere near - or in front of - a Toyota, er a Zeus bot.
We've already paid 320 billion to get fiber to the home that never got installed. If the FCC and state utilities would simply hold the telcos to the existing contracts it'd be a done deal. But we'd have to have politicians not beholden to the industry. My local House rep Fred Upton was previously chair of the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet. Not surprising to see SBC, Verizon, and other telcos giving upwards of 100K a year (according to opensecrets.org). Corporatism at its finest.
The bad press the last few years of multiple infected crops have changed farming practices a bit. In my immediate area - Michigan - they are enforcing these new rules rather harshly. Every field with workers has to have porta potties, designated eating areas, can't have outside food or even beverages outside of those areas. Want a drink of water? Fine, walk to the designated area and don't swig from a water bottle in the field.
A local farmer last year was giving his mandated inspection tour - which costs a fee of course. While giving the tour he picked an apple off a tree and ate it. Instant fine for eating outside of the designated area. And people wonder why it's cheaper to ship apples from China, South America, etc than grow them locally.
Sadly the constitutionalists and libertarians are considered fringe political groups. So many people bitch about the direction of the government from both parties but they keep voting for the same idiots. They toss out buzzwords during campaign season and one issue voters or lifelong party members stand by their party regardless of anything the person may actually stand for. Or whose pocket they are in.
As to civil war people seem way too apathetic to care to even vote most of the time. Give people American Idol and they could care less about politics. Of course if the 20% real unemployment figures stick around long enough, or the federal spending actually kills the dollar, and people can't afford to watch American Idol, then people may finally get upset and take a real interest in politics.
Wonder if police in South Carolina will take a hint from Florida and start going after anyone who speaks out against government regardless of their location?
That's not very convenient for instant or simple online sales. Also you normally get hit with a $15 wire transfer fee on top of it. For large purchases it's doable, for paying some coder by the hour it'd be a hassle.
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I consider myself an educated person, I'm a member of Mensa so I supposedly have brains. My job requires logic and reasoning, and things making sense is important. I have no mental conditions, wasn't on any drugs, and I'm agnostic. With that said, I have experienced "ghostly" events firsthand, multiple times. Examples: Watching tv + doing homework and a picture flew across the room from it's place on a brick wall as if struck with a backhand, 10+ feet. (no strange air movement, no earthquake, no person standing nearby, no animals, no reason at all I could discover why). I've seen doorhandles wiggle, doors open fully all the way against the opposite wall, then shut by themselves. Other things that are just... weird. If these things had not happened to me personally I wouldn't have believed it. Do I believe in ghosts? I am not sure, but I believe there are unexplained things that defy my understanding at the moment.
This wasn't a ghosthunters "I got a cold flash, Ooh EM field spiked, it must be a ghost!" sort of event, but real physical events witnessed with others at the time. I wish I could explain it, I wish these sort of events happened more than a handful of times over a decade+ of living in that house. I wish there was repeatability. I wish there was proof. Wishing all of the things needed for any scientific analysis of anything. If for no other reason than I don't like mysteries that I can't figure out.
So with all that said, I'd welcome a class on UFOs or other phenomena if it involved the full skeptical approach on discovery, data analysis, and testing hypothesis. I don't know how you handle the 'one in a million' sort of events that qualify as a UFO. From a sociology or anthropology perspective that would be interesting too - just learning what leads a person to believe something and more insight into how humans work could be fascinating.
I considered posting this anonymously but oh well, I've done far worse than accept that I don't know all of the laws of physics. Besides, someday I'd like to figure out a logical reason to what the heck happened. Or at least figure out how to make it repeatable, it'd make the house value skyrocket!
Heck you can see people in revolutionary gear in the Aimee Allen Ron Paul video well before '09, from some Ron Paul tea parties of '07 and '08. Sadly the screaming maniacs on TV and Sarah Palin have made anything called a 'tea party' an utter joke.
The current tea baggers remind me of Microsoft's take on Java, embrace and extend until all resemblance to the original is gone.
Also when Powell's kid got in charge of the FCC they turned around and basically got rid of all the good points of the '96 act.
What's 300 billion between friends^H^H^Hpaid off congresspeople?
Can anyone even stand 10 minutes of looking at goatse?
The last I knew, $20 was the price to get out of a speeding ticket in Chicago with a discreet palming while resting your hand along the open window. Although it's been a decade so prices may have went up some.
Just nerds? Tiger woods could have saved himself millions in lost endorsements by having a harem of them. Wonder if that would count as a business write off?
Researchers have found cases of genetic matches in the FBI DNA database far more frequently than the 1 in 113 billion figure they use. Scarily enough, many states and the FBI now prohibit such genetic collision searches from taking place. FBI officials argue that, under their interpretation of federal law, use of CODIS is limited to criminal justice agencies. In their view, defense attorneys are allowed access to information about their specific cases, not the databases in general.
I've seen NICs that default to a specific MAC when they start to go bad, but are otherwise working. That can cause bad networking like at the school you mentioned. My guess is the local store got a bunch of returns, tested them in house and saw they worked, then resold them. I have a few of these IDE NICs \if anyone's interested in this unique feature...
Some power companies offer 'off peak metering' that charges far less for the off peak times. They put in a smart meter for timing and I've seen bills drop by 2/3rds. Power from 7am - 7pm weekdays is normal, anything other than that (Evenings, weekends, holidays) is just a fraction of the cost. For the normal person that's when you're washing clothes, cooking, using lights anyways so it helps without smart equipment.
The funny thing, power companies often don't tell people about this. I've had people that worked for a power company that offers it not know about it. If you call and ask the service reps may not know about it. But if you say you'll be putting in oh, electric heat, or a new on demand electric water heater, and are looking for ways to save money on electric bills they'll bounce you to the right person. Even if you never do install a new product it saves money.
If you could have hooked up the virtualboy to the little robot with spinning gyroscopes... that would have been a game!
The last Zelda on the Wii had all the hallmarks of adventure, find the clues and find some widget, which you'll need to use in the next area. A little more complex than King's quest but basically the same.
Too bad the jurors had never heard of Jury Nullification
I tried the wii wheel but the control of the nunchuk is far more precise and easier. It also feels more natural - I guess so many years of a mouse/keyboard combo for a FPS led to this.
You get your bitch ass back in the kitchen and make me some pie!
You're absolutely right. At the federal level 20% of spending goes to defense, 18% to discretionary spending, the rest for mandated obligations (Medicare, social security, debt repayment). When 2/3rd of all money is already spoken for it makes every penny that much harder to get for projects.
The government has a few unemployment figures. The news reports the standard UC 3 one, the "People drawing unemployment". The UC 6 figure is for people drawing unemployment, people no longer drawing because it ran out, and underemployment (Being cut to 20 hours instead of 40, being hired to flip burgers after losing a white collar job, etc). This number is currently 16%. So the economy is in pretty sad shape.
Sounds about as clean as a Vice President's past company getting no bid contracts awarded for a war that had nothing to do with Terrorism.
How about this one then - Zeus is like a Toyota. It keeps going and going, no matter how hard you try to put on the brakes to its activities. However after a long fight someone found a way to hit the brakes, emergency brakes, positioned a cop car in front of, and slowed it down enough to yank the key out. Troyak and Group 3 are like Toyota car dealerships. All of their cars (Servers) are now sitting idle because no one in their right mind wants to go anywhere near - or in front of - a Toyota, er a Zeus bot.
We've already paid 320 billion to get fiber to the home that never got installed. If the FCC and state utilities would simply hold the telcos to the existing contracts it'd be a done deal. But we'd have to have politicians not beholden to the industry. My local House rep Fred Upton was previously chair of the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet. Not surprising to see SBC, Verizon, and other telcos giving upwards of 100K a year (according to opensecrets.org). Corporatism at its finest.
The bad press the last few years of multiple infected crops have changed farming practices a bit. In my immediate area - Michigan - they are enforcing these new rules rather harshly. Every field with workers has to have porta potties, designated eating areas, can't have outside food or even beverages outside of those areas. Want a drink of water? Fine, walk to the designated area and don't swig from a water bottle in the field.
A local farmer last year was giving his mandated inspection tour - which costs a fee of course. While giving the tour he picked an apple off a tree and ate it. Instant fine for eating outside of the designated area. And people wonder why it's cheaper to ship apples from China, South America, etc than grow them locally.
Sadly the constitutionalists and libertarians are considered fringe political groups. So many people bitch about the direction of the government from both parties but they keep voting for the same idiots. They toss out buzzwords during campaign season and one issue voters or lifelong party members stand by their party regardless of anything the person may actually stand for. Or whose pocket they are in.
As to civil war people seem way too apathetic to care to even vote most of the time. Give people American Idol and they could care less about politics. Of course if the 20% real unemployment figures stick around long enough, or the federal spending actually kills the dollar, and people can't afford to watch American Idol, then people may finally get upset and take a real interest in politics.
Wonder if police in South Carolina will take a hint from Florida and start going after anyone who speaks out against government regardless of their location?
Yeah I hate those companies that try to monetize their service to break even. It only took facebook to hit the 300 million mark to get into the black.
That's not very convenient for instant or simple online sales. Also you normally get hit with a $15 wire transfer fee on top of it. For large purchases it's doable, for paying some coder by the hour it'd be a hassle.