Ours makes the most profanely over-engineered chicken coop cover in Christendom. But the bright side is, not one piece of hail has ever hit any of the chickens.
(Or, you could re-enact "Singing In The Rain" if you combine it with an old antenna pole. If you were very strong.)
I can think of several valid reasons why moving the ISS to lunar orbit is a horrible idea. This is merely one of the little ones. The current routine for disposing of trash and waste on ISS is to load it into an empty Progress resupply module then deorbit it and let it burn up in the atmosphere or return it to Earth on the Shuttle. Since the Moon has no atmosphere, doing the same thing there might very well bring down several tons of empty MRE wrappers and busted toilet parts onto some very unhappy taikonaut's head on the Moon.
I really don't accept what is apparently the conventional wisdom that sniping is a bad thing. The ability to not be sniped is always in the user's hands - simply bid more than the other guy is willing to pay. Besides, I get a woody woodpecker every time I snipe somebody at 0:01 who bid 5 days previously for an item. Its part of the game and part of the fun.
I'll see your cute truism and raise you a boiled frog allegory.
Nobody is disputing the wisdom of conducting surveillance on Joe Terrorist in BFE. Its when the surveillance is somehow also conducted on Peter "The Citizen" Pothead and Ulysses "The Citizen" Unsafedriver without bothering with little nitpicky things like warrants and Constitutional rights that sticks in one's craw.
I've audited several of MIT's OpenCourseWare offerings in Physics. Some are ridiculously easy while others have thrashed my intellectual behind back and forth across the Internet.
And the best part? They're free.
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Physics/ [mit.edu]
I have tried, so far in vain, to find a simple ringing sound like the old rotary dial phones used to have. I guess Jamster and their ilk are going to drag me kicking and screaming into the 21st Century whether I want to go or not.
The displays on these handheld toys keep getting smaller and smaller, while my aging eyesight keeps getting weaker and weaker. I'll be impressed when Doom is successfully ported to a frickin' Braille display.
... the Race to Total Irrelevance. This broadcast is brought to you by Joe's Freedom Fries - Breakfast of the Consistent Second-Place Finisher! If cold and mushy fried potatoes are your gig, you'll love Joe's.
Today's contestants are:
Number 5: Spats
Number 22: Commodore VIC-20
Number 7: Emmanuel Lewis
Number 17: The slide rule
Number 2: The buggy whip
And in the pole position - Number 36: French government and culture
Fine. Then add 24 hours to his sentence for every spim that can be attributed to the methods he discloses. Even assholes have the right of free speech, but assholery hiding behind free speech should have consequences.
As much as it pains me to say it, intrusive and annoying advertising techniques work. When I lived in California years ago, we heard the annoying ads for the Cal "Go See Cal" Worthington car dealership almost every day. The repetition and annoyance factor of these ads were enough to make you want to stick an ice pick into your frontal lobe just to make it stop. But perversely, the first place my father went to buy his new cars was... you guessed it, Cal Worthington.
Any advertisement that elicits any strong emotion (anger, disgust, laughter) is going to be more memorable than one featuring a simple unemotional recitation of the product's strong points.
A poster at conservative website FreeRepublic.com is credited as first discovering evidence of CBS News' and Dan Rather's clumsy attempt to rig a US Presidential election by exposing the incredibly bad Bush Killian memoranda forgeries that CBS had "authenticated". Here is the historic "Post 47" that exposed Rather's perfidy:
Post # 47 To: Howlin
Howlin, every single one of these memos to file is in a proportionally spaced font, probably Palatino or Times New Roman.
In 1972 people used typewriters for this sort of thing, and typewriters used monospaced fonts.
The use of proportionally spaced fonts did not come into common use for office memos until the introduction of laser printers, word processing software, and personal computers. They were not widespread until the mid to late 90's. Before then, you needed typesetting equipment, and that wasn't used for personal memos to file. Even the Wang systems that were dominant in the mid 80's used monospaced fonts.
I am saying these documents are forgeries, run through a copier for 15 generations to make them look old.
This should be pursued aggressively.
47 posted on 09/08/2004 8:59:43 PM PDT by Buckhead
CBS executives Betsy West, Josh Howard and Howard's deputy Mary Murphy as well as producer Mary Mapes acted as human shields for Rather with their jobs. Memogate was only the most recent attempt by supposedly unbiased "journalists" at CBS to subvert the will of the American voter. And bloggers were the first ones on the scene to expose CBS' treachery.
Of course, Dan Rather has a documented history of bias against Republicans. Rather's refusal to cover Juanita Broderick's rape charges against former President Bill Clinton during Penisgate was another black eye for CBS and its bell cow. Rather's incredible claim that the story was "an intrusion into Clinton's private sex life" was both disgusting and horrific. Rape is a crime even when committed by a sitting President, not a political football. Further, Rather's Jan. 25, 1988 interrogation of then-candidate George Bush trying to link him to Iran-Contra was a harangue so vitriolic that even Mike Wallace said his co-worker had gone too far, and CBS affiliates called the Bush campaign to apologize for Rather.
Along with Michael Moore's nazi-esque propaganda film Fahrenheit 9/11 and the stunning testimony of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth documenting John Kerry's cowardice and misdeeds during the Vietnam War, Dan Rather and Mary Mapes' evil machinations will be remembered by history as one of the primary reasons that George W. Bush won the 2004 election. The American people can smell a skunk in the woodpile, and Rather's shameful curtain call in March when he retires as anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News means that they finally, thankfully, have started to pay attention to the rampant liberal bias that infests the American "old media" television networks.
Swirlies are SO 2004. When this master cracker is convicted and sent to prison, just put the programs that keep track of prisoner feeding schedules and parole hearings on an unpatched Windows box connected to the Internet.
I agree with you. Bill Clinton does deserve his share of blame for bombing that dangerous aspirin factory and lobbing all those cruise missiles at Iraq, The Sudan, Yugoslavia, and Afghanistan.
Considering that it is still impossible to get blood out of a turnip, slapping a litigious but penurious losing plaintiff with a super-sized legal bill would realistically be an exercise in futility anyway. Considering the crapstorm of bad karma and publicity (everybody loves a David and Goliath story) that would result, the subset of megacorporations that would actually dun a plaintiff for massive legal bills is very small if not nonexistent.
While Loser Pays would have been a tough sell in the era of debtors' prisons, it makes sense now.
Abu Ghraib showed all of us just how wrong it can be to use panties on one's head to make a fashion statement.
The paradigm has changed. During Vietnam, American special forces left the ace of spades on the bodies of enemy casualties. Today, we use Fruit of the Looms for the same purpose. What in God's name have we become?
First off, that was one hell of a nice troll you threw out there. You can just smell the outraged Slashdotters burning up their keyboards to respond to you. I love to watch a pro work - well done.
And now, allow me to add myself to the list.
I don't get America.
Many people don't. But I think that America has done pretty well in its 230 some-odd years of existence. Good economy, fine roads, decent military, Britney Spears (well, maybe not Britney Spears - bad example), and the fishing isn't bad either.
(E)very motherfucking person in the Bible belt owns at least one Gun. Perhaps the kid wouldn't have shot the cops if he couldn't have got access to a Gun.
I'll stand by your side and demand, DEMAND that all police officers be required to carry their duty firearm in a belt-mounted safe requiring biometric information to open. For that is how the child obtained the firearm - by taking it away from a police officer.
It is instructive that you chose to capitalize the word "Gun" in your rant. You may melt down all the "Guns" you can find, as far as I am concerned. Just don't try to take away my firearms.
... please bear in mind that around fifty eight thousand Americans are killed by guns every year. Yes, that's around eleven times as man as in 9/11 and that is EVERY year.
Remarkable. Only in America do we have firearms that load themselves, keep themselves clean, then jump out of their holsters or off a table and shoot human beings. The things you learn on Slashdot...
Bush would do a better job of protecting americans by removing firearms than countering terroism.
With respect, I do not depend on the whims of any national leader to "protect" me - I reserve that job for myself. All I ask of my national leaders is that they not deprive me of the tools I need to do that job.
America needs to stop living in fear and start addressing the real threats to society - one of them being the gun culture.
I am more concerned about the culture growing in the back of my refrigerator right now. I'm pretty casual about expiration dates, and am paying the price in that old container of yogurt as a result. And as for "living in fear", the only thing I really fear are all the trumped-up socialist politicians wiping their ass on the Second Amendment by trying to confiscate my firearms.
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(Or, you could re-enact "Singing In The Rain" if you combine it with an old antenna pole. If you were very strong.)
The cynic in me screams that he's posting on company time. Your tax dollars at work.
I can think of several valid reasons why moving the ISS to lunar orbit is a horrible idea. This is merely one of the little ones. The current routine for disposing of trash and waste on ISS is to load it into an empty Progress resupply module then deorbit it and let it burn up in the atmosphere or return it to Earth on the Shuttle. Since the Moon has no atmosphere, doing the same thing there might very well bring down several tons of empty MRE wrappers and busted toilet parts onto some very unhappy taikonaut's head on the Moon.
... the other OTHER white meat.
I really don't accept what is apparently the conventional wisdom that sniping is a bad thing. The ability to not be sniped is always in the user's hands - simply bid more than the other guy is willing to pay. Besides, I get a woody woodpecker every time I snipe somebody at 0:01 who bid 5 days previously for an item. Its part of the game and part of the fun.
I'll see your cute truism and raise you a boiled frog allegory. Nobody is disputing the wisdom of conducting surveillance on Joe Terrorist in BFE. Its when the surveillance is somehow also conducted on Peter "The Citizen" Pothead and Ulysses "The Citizen" Unsafedriver without bothering with little nitpicky things like warrants and Constitutional rights that sticks in one's craw.
First post!
I've audited several of MIT's OpenCourseWare offerings in Physics. Some are ridiculously easy while others have thrashed my intellectual behind back and forth across the Internet. And the best part? They're free. http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Physics/ [mit.edu]
Hey, I just realized something - one can be a spelling nazi and a Luddite in the very same post! Cool.
I have tried, so far in vain, to find a simple ringing sound like the old rotary dial phones used to have. I guess Jamster and their ilk are going to drag me kicking and screaming into the 21st Century whether I want to go or not.
The displays on these handheld toys keep getting smaller and smaller, while my aging eyesight keeps getting weaker and weaker. I'll be impressed when Doom is successfully ported to a frickin' Braille display.
God is dead. Neitszche
Neitszche is dead. God
Definition of cosmic justice: The presiding judge at the guy's trial is Judge Smales.
Today's contestants are:
Number 5: Spats
Number 22: Commodore VIC-20
Number 7: Emmanuel Lewis
Number 17: The slide rule
Number 2: The buggy whip
And in the pole position - Number 36: French government and culture
Gentlemen, start your memes!
Fine. Then add 24 hours to his sentence for every spim that can be attributed to the methods he discloses. Even assholes have the right of free speech, but assholery hiding behind free speech should have consequences.
Any advertisement that elicits any strong emotion (anger, disgust, laughter) is going to be more memorable than one featuring a simple unemotional recitation of the product's strong points.
Yes, the acupuncture brain surgery seemed to work well. It made bad guys join the Salvation Army and play an accordion.
Post # 47 To: Howlin
Howlin, every single one of these memos to file is in a proportionally spaced font, probably Palatino or Times New Roman.
In 1972 people used typewriters for this sort of thing, and typewriters used monospaced fonts.
The use of proportionally spaced fonts did not come into common use for office memos until the introduction of laser printers, word processing software, and personal computers. They were not widespread until the mid to late 90's. Before then, you needed typesetting equipment, and that wasn't used for personal memos to file. Even the Wang systems that were dominant in the mid 80's used monospaced fonts.
I am saying these documents are forgeries, run through a copier for 15 generations to make them look old.
This should be pursued aggressively.
47 posted on 09/08/2004 8:59:43 PM PDT by Buckhead
CBS executives Betsy West, Josh Howard and Howard's deputy Mary Murphy as well as producer Mary Mapes acted as human shields for Rather with their jobs. Memogate was only the most recent attempt by supposedly unbiased "journalists" at CBS to subvert the will of the American voter. And bloggers were the first ones on the scene to expose CBS' treachery.
Of course, Dan Rather has a documented history of bias against Republicans. Rather's refusal to cover Juanita Broderick's rape charges against former President Bill Clinton during Penisgate was another black eye for CBS and its bell cow. Rather's incredible claim that the story was "an intrusion into Clinton's private sex life" was both disgusting and horrific. Rape is a crime even when committed by a sitting President, not a political football. Further, Rather's Jan. 25, 1988 interrogation of then-candidate George Bush trying to link him to Iran-Contra was a harangue so vitriolic that even Mike Wallace said his co-worker had gone too far, and CBS affiliates called the Bush campaign to apologize for Rather.
Along with Michael Moore's nazi-esque propaganda film Fahrenheit 9/11 and the stunning testimony of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth documenting John Kerry's cowardice and misdeeds during the Vietnam War, Dan Rather and Mary Mapes' evil machinations will be remembered by history as one of the primary reasons that George W. Bush won the 2004 election. The American people can smell a skunk in the woodpile, and Rather's shameful curtain call in March when he retires as anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News means that they finally, thankfully, have started to pay attention to the rampant liberal bias that infests the American "old media" television networks.
Swirlies are SO 2004. When this master cracker is convicted and sent to prison, just put the programs that keep track of prisoner feeding schedules and parole hearings on an unpatched Windows box connected to the Internet.
I agree with you. Bill Clinton does deserve his share of blame for bombing that dangerous aspirin factory and lobbing all those cruise missiles at Iraq, The Sudan, Yugoslavia, and Afghanistan.
While Loser Pays would have been a tough sell in the era of debtors' prisons, it makes sense now.
Actually, I first heard that phrase uttered by Veronica Hamel on Hill Street Blues. Except she pronounced it "Fruit of the poisonous tree".
Well, here's your chance.
The paradigm has changed. During Vietnam, American special forces left the ace of spades on the bodies of enemy casualties. Today, we use Fruit of the Looms for the same purpose. What in God's name have we become?
And now, allow me to add myself to the list.
I don't get America.
Many people don't. But I think that America has done pretty well in its 230 some-odd years of existence. Good economy, fine roads, decent military, Britney Spears (well, maybe not Britney Spears - bad example), and the fishing isn't bad either.
(E)very motherfucking person in the Bible belt owns at least one Gun. Perhaps the kid wouldn't have shot the cops if he couldn't have got access to a Gun.
I'll stand by your side and demand, DEMAND that all police officers be required to carry their duty firearm in a belt-mounted safe requiring biometric information to open. For that is how the child obtained the firearm - by taking it away from a police officer.
It is instructive that you chose to capitalize the word "Gun" in your rant. You may melt down all the "Guns" you can find, as far as I am concerned. Just don't try to take away my firearms.
Remarkable. Only in America do we have firearms that load themselves, keep themselves clean, then jump out of their holsters or off a table and shoot human beings. The things you learn on Slashdot ...
Bush would do a better job of protecting americans by removing firearms than countering terroism.
With respect, I do not depend on the whims of any national leader to "protect" me - I reserve that job for myself. All I ask of my national leaders is that they not deprive me of the tools I need to do that job.
America needs to stop living in fear and start addressing the real threats to society - one of them being the gun culture.
I am more concerned about the culture growing in the back of my refrigerator right now. I'm pretty casual about expiration dates, and am paying the price in that old container of yogurt as a result. And as for "living in fear", the only thing I really fear are all the trumped-up socialist politicians wiping their ass on the Second Amendment by trying to confiscate my firearms.