Refractors are fine scopes and I have two of them, and 80mm and 152mm. The large objective newtonians are nice, if you have a very dark place and don't mind moving 100 plus pounds around just to spend 30 minutes outside, which is what most backyard astronomy entrants do. I know that any more than 6" - 8" of aperature on my edge-of-the-city plot results in haze because I'm still within about 30 minutes of a large city. Now, if I head out to the farm for the weekend, the larger reflector does make sense and I've borrowed one more than a couple of times. However, I won't own one becuase the amount of use I'd get out of it doesn't justify the added cost. I'll keep my refractors, and venture a guess that you should look through a really decent one before you spout off.
The best astronomy instrument is your brain, the second is a good pair of binoculars, and the third is a scope you actually use.
I live on a small rural plot too. Here are the suggestions that the local astronomy porn shop made to me, which I followed, and couldn't have been happier with.
1. Buy a good guide book on the sky
2. Buy a good (I mean good) pair of binoculars
3. Go outside and learn your way around the sky without computer assistance
Once you have visually mastered touring the sky, and only once you've done that, are you ready to go buy a telescope. But before you run out and drop a 1000 bucks (or more) go to your local astronomy club and attend some of their meetings so you have a chance to look through various types of instruments. You will be amazed at the amount of money that some of these people have dropped on their scopes.
Personally, I have a Stellarvuew Nighthawk and a Meade LXD75 6" refractor. Both are great scopes but cost more than a comparably sized reflector. I prefer planetary observation, and some of the Messier objects. All in all, I've probably dropped about $3000 on astronomy stuff.
One more thing, a smaller scope that you actually use is worth more than the larger one you don't use often. One thing we in the country have in our favor is that we can often mount a large scope permanently outside. I have not done this but I personally know people who have and it is convenient.
This is only partly true. Our purpose as I.T. shops is to support the mission of our organizations. My organization is healthcare and my motto is that if I can do it, and it doesn't violate any laws, regulations, or introduce a risk to the organization, then I will do it. HOWEVER, what I do not do is say when I can do it. Most hospital I.T. shops are woefully understaffed and underfunded yet we are asked to do stuff yesterday, the only way to handle these requests is to tell people not right now and make them wait. Unfortunately, having to wait is interpreted as a no by most people.
Who are you to think you have some right to detain me if I have done nothing wrong and merely don't feel like playing your big brother head games? I'd be willing to take the chance that I can take you and if you or your employees tried to stop me when I had done nothing wrong, deal with the ramifications of defending myself from your attack. In my opinion, your very attempt to detain me is assault and therefore, I am entitled to defend myself.
Unless of course, you live in one of those fascist anti-freedom places on one of the coasts. Then you all have already given up your freedoms and privacies and should just let them chip you.
>> In New York if I remember correctly, [at least in the county I was a store manager in (not a Circuit City)], we can detain you, and even request to see your receipts or request you let us inspect your bag(s), but cannot forcibly do so... if you refuse, which is your right, then we can detain you until the police arrive who then can search your bag if we sufficiently prove to them/convince them a crime (shoplifting) has occurred.
The US is no where near a capitalist nation anymore. We have subsidies for every industry, intense anti-competitive regulation, and over-meddling of government and business in each others' domains. Most of the world is clueless on those facts and no one wants to live in your socialist paradise, but strangely, lots want to come here.
Unless they're blocking users from China and other totalitarian countries, this is just a politically motivated move by the administrators of TorrentSpy.
Palestinians are not denied the ability to become citizens..... except by other Arab nations who forceably keep the refuge camps in place for propoganda purposes.
Hardly. Sounds like you've bought the propoganda of the other side. When the Palestinians decide they really want to live in peace, they'll stop indoctrinating their kids to be suicide bombers, stop praising the actions of Nazi Germany, and start building parks, hospitals, and schools instead of pipe bombs and mosques.
I wouldn't trust Iran, Saudi Arabia, or any other rabidly islamic country bent upon forcing sharia law upon the world.
If a project were mine, and it had national security stakes, you bet your ass I'd lock out participants from those nations.
>>P.S. - I too am a Linux supporter, and know "cramped" is a poor description of something that really is more free and liberating - but that's the intitial feeling Windows users get.
Operating systems aren't free or liberating, life is. Life happens OUTSIDE of your house and away from a computer. Linux, Windows, MacOS -- this argument always brings out the fanboys (and girls) and its almost pathetic.
the democrats, any different, really? that same level or trust in the current power structure is what got us the patriot act and now this. democrats and republicans are like cancer and aids, both will make you sick or kill you and you don't want either of them.
I think the bad assumption here is that the use of MP3 files is an all or none proposition. I buy CDs and then rip them to MP3 for convenience in my car or ipod, neither of which are really very good soundstages for musical appreciation --especially with the top down.
If I want to hear the highs and lows I listen on my 15 year old Technics home stereo AND keep the volume low enough so things don't get washed out by the amplifier. However, if like most people, I just want the companionship that music really is, I listen on my ipod. It is those instances, where I don't mind that the ends of the range are missing.
Now, if I couldn't get a non-compressed original, that would upset me.
at least i have the courage to post as someone and not as an anonymous coward.
oh, i volunteered btw, right out of hs, i'm also far from a young man and i've probably seen and experience more of this world than you. in any case, your name calling is no different than mine, however i happen to be right.
pacifist are such losers. I hate pacifists, too cowardly to take a stand to save their own skins, too cowardly to speak out against truly evil behavior lest they be required to stand up for their fellow humans. pacifism is intrinsically the domain of the self righteous, soft headed moron never exposed to the reality that life takes work and sacrifice.
that being said, the united nations is a bunch of cowering inept fools.
Companies like Microsoft? Seems you too young or stupid to understand that patents existed long before Microsoft or any other similar technology company. It's one thing to dislike a particular companies business model, another to randomly interject unrelated garbage. Go back to your room, your parents need you to clean it.
... Wednesday after television crews last year broadcast video of officers punching and kicking a suspect who led police on a car chase...
Sorry, no sympathy from me. Innocent people get killed when these scumbags decide to flee from the police and in my mind, the person who decides to run fully and consciously makes a choice to endanger other's lives by doing so. I'd charge them with murder if they actually killed someone or attempted murder if they just injured someone.
I say beat the shit out of the jerks, maybe they'll think twice before doing it again.
Even so, I don't think cops should be allowed to give chase unless a capital offense was witnessed.
The image verification word for me was victims.. the only way it would have been more appropriate would have been if it said irresponsible.
I am so looking forward to that event... give us rural loving folk the planet back from the city dwellers. i'll take my motorbike over your mass transit any day, even in the rain and the snow. freedom isn't some mass produced, commoditized beast of a city, it's the sleeping on the porch without fear of some gang banger popping a cap in you.
I make just a sliver less than a 100k per year in Kansas City. Never mind what the big city coastal bigots think, the midwest is a hotbed of intellectual activity and there are pleny of decent, high paying and challenging jobs to be had. I wouldn't trade my cost of living or more importantly, my quality of life for any ill perceived benefit from living in cities on the coasts for double or even tripple the money, ever.
Ethics dictates that never, under any circumstances, will you comply with a request to break the law for financial reasons. Morals say it too but that's not a real important topic with most slashdot followers so we'll leave it alone.
If you comply, you are just as GUILTY as those who are making the request.
I would fire anyone who works for me who did it, and all of my staff has been told that pirated software on the network or any desktop is grounds for immediate termination.
You state: "An unbiased observer might wonder about an agenda of slowing the OLPC project and the spread of open source in general" but you're not really, are you now? An unbiased observer wouldn't give a shit either way, but a biased one would.
As an Iowan, I take offense to your statements.. we don't just raise corn, we also raise pigs.
All kidding aside, you city dwellers have zero clue about food production. I mean that in every aspect too. Most of you couldn't grow a dandelion in a pot of hog manure and not even three of you probably understand what subsidies give back to you.
Farm subsidies are like illegal immigration.
Without ag subsidies you couldn't afford to eat anything made of any grain, or buy eggs, products made with eggs or milk, or for that matter, anything made with soy. Meat would be way, way more expensive too.
Without illegal immigration levels boosting the ranks of the service industries, your fresh produce would all be three or four times more expensive to buy, and restaurants would charge more because their backroom help would cost more; never mind that you'd all have to get off your lazy butts and mow your own lawns.
People forget or ignore the fact that the reason the government subsidizes agriculture is to keep farms in business when consumers won't pay a fair price. You start paying what your food costs to produce and then the government can do away with prices, until then, shove off.
It is not illegal to harvest stem cells. It is illegal to do research with stem cells using federal funds, if those cells are not part of the approved cell lines.
Therefore, you may harvest stem cells to your heart's delight and do whatever research you'd like, just don't try to fund any part of that research with federal grant dollars.
Don't try and make statements about stuff you don't know. You only misinform and create false facts.
have never even seen the original commodore much less used one.. maybe one or two of you might have seen an Amiga but the rest of you are just lemurs, or lemmings or whatever me-too critter is popular these days.
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I've downloaded firefox probably 20 times or more.... I bet most of the 400 million are repeat downloads.
The best astronomy instrument is your brain, the second is a good pair of binoculars, and the third is a scope you actually use.
I live on a small rural plot too. Here are the suggestions that the local astronomy porn shop made to me, which I followed, and couldn't have been happier with.
1. Buy a good guide book on the sky 2. Buy a good (I mean good) pair of binoculars 3. Go outside and learn your way around the sky without computer assistance
Once you have visually mastered touring the sky, and only once you've done that, are you ready to go buy a telescope. But before you run out and drop a 1000 bucks (or more) go to your local astronomy club and attend some of their meetings so you have a chance to look through various types of instruments. You will be amazed at the amount of money that some of these people have dropped on their scopes.
Personally, I have a Stellarvuew Nighthawk and a Meade LXD75 6" refractor. Both are great scopes but cost more than a comparably sized reflector. I prefer planetary observation, and some of the Messier objects. All in all, I've probably dropped about $3000 on astronomy stuff.
One more thing, a smaller scope that you actually use is worth more than the larger one you don't use often. One thing we in the country have in our favor is that we can often mount a large scope permanently outside. I have not done this but I personally know people who have and it is convenient.
Good luck.
This is only partly true. Our purpose as I.T. shops is to support the mission of our organizations. My organization is healthcare and my motto is that if I can do it, and it doesn't violate any laws, regulations, or introduce a risk to the organization, then I will do it. HOWEVER, what I do not do is say when I can do it. Most hospital I.T. shops are woefully understaffed and underfunded yet we are asked to do stuff yesterday, the only way to handle these requests is to tell people not right now and make them wait. Unfortunately, having to wait is interpreted as a no by most people.
>> But they're just words, and I wouldn't support the removal of a facebook group advocating imposing, say, sharia on the United States!
I would, and I'd help hunt them down and kill them.
Try and detain me. Go ahead.
It's a very valid statement.
Who are you to think you have some right to detain me if I have done nothing wrong and merely don't feel like playing your big brother head games? I'd be willing to take the chance that I can take you and if you or your employees tried to stop me when I had done nothing wrong, deal with the ramifications of defending myself from your attack. In my opinion, your very attempt to detain me is assault and therefore, I am entitled to defend myself.
Unless of course, you live in one of those fascist anti-freedom places on one of the coasts. Then you all have already given up your freedoms and privacies and should just let them chip you.
>>
In New York if I remember correctly, [at least in the county I was a store manager in (not a Circuit City)], we can detain you, and even request to see your receipts or request you let us inspect your bag(s), but cannot forcibly do so... if you refuse, which is your right, then we can detain you until the police arrive who then can search your bag if we sufficiently prove to them/convince them a crime (shoplifting) has occurred.
The US is no where near a capitalist nation anymore. We have subsidies for every industry, intense anti-competitive regulation, and over-meddling of government and business in each others' domains. Most of the world is clueless on those facts and no one wants to live in your socialist paradise, but strangely, lots want to come here.
Unless they're blocking users from China and other totalitarian countries, this is just a politically motivated move by the administrators of TorrentSpy.
Palestinians are not denied the ability to become citizens..... except by other Arab nations who forceably keep the refuge camps in place for propoganda purposes.
Israel, the aggressor?
Hardly. Sounds like you've bought the propoganda of the other side. When the Palestinians decide they really want to live in peace, they'll stop indoctrinating their kids to be suicide bombers, stop praising the actions of Nazi Germany, and start building parks, hospitals, and schools instead of pipe bombs and mosques.
I wouldn't trust Iran, Saudi Arabia, or any other rabidly islamic country bent upon forcing sharia law upon the world.
If a project were mine, and it had national security stakes, you bet your ass I'd lock out participants from those nations.
>>P.S. - I too am a Linux supporter, and know "cramped" is a poor description of something that really is more free and liberating - but that's the intitial feeling Windows users get.
Operating systems aren't free or liberating, life is. Life happens OUTSIDE of your house and away from a computer. Linux, Windows, MacOS -- this argument always brings out the fanboys (and girls) and its almost pathetic.
the democrats, any different, really? that same level or trust in the current power structure is what got us the patriot act and now this. democrats and republicans are like cancer and aids, both will make you sick or kill you and you don't want either of them.
I think the bad assumption here is that the use of MP3 files is an all or none proposition. I buy CDs and then rip them to MP3 for convenience in my car or ipod, neither of which are really very good soundstages for musical appreciation --especially with the top down.
If I want to hear the highs and lows I listen on my 15 year old Technics home stereo AND keep the volume low enough so things don't get washed out by the amplifier. However, if like most people, I just want the companionship that music really is, I listen on my ipod. It is those instances, where I don't mind that the ends of the range are missing.
Now, if I couldn't get a non-compressed original, that would upset me.
at least i have the courage to post as someone and not as an anonymous coward. oh, i volunteered btw, right out of hs, i'm also far from a young man and i've probably seen and experience more of this world than you. in any case, your name calling is no different than mine, however i happen to be right.
pacifist are such losers. I hate pacifists, too cowardly to take a stand to save their own skins, too cowardly to speak out against truly evil behavior lest they be required to stand up for their fellow humans. pacifism is intrinsically the domain of the self righteous, soft headed moron never exposed to the reality that life takes work and sacrifice.
that being said, the united nations is a bunch of cowering inept fools.
Companies like Microsoft? Seems you too young or stupid to understand that patents existed long before Microsoft or any other similar technology company. It's one thing to dislike a particular companies business model, another to randomly interject unrelated garbage. Go back to your room, your parents need you to clean it.
Sorry, no sympathy from me. Innocent people get killed when these scumbags decide to flee from the police and in my mind, the person who decides to run fully and consciously makes a choice to endanger other's lives by doing so. I'd charge them with murder if they actually killed someone or attempted murder if they just injured someone.
I say beat the shit out of the jerks, maybe they'll think twice before doing it again.
Even so, I don't think cops should be allowed to give chase unless a capital offense was witnessed.
The image verification word for me was victims.. the only way it would have been more appropriate would have been if it said irresponsible.
I am so looking forward to that event... give us rural loving folk the planet back from the city dwellers. i'll take my motorbike over your mass transit any day, even in the rain and the snow. freedom isn't some mass produced, commoditized beast of a city, it's the sleeping on the porch without fear of some gang banger popping a cap in you.
Cities suck.
I make just a sliver less than a 100k per year in Kansas City. Never mind what the big city coastal bigots think, the midwest is a hotbed of intellectual activity and there are pleny of decent, high paying and challenging jobs to be had. I wouldn't trade my cost of living or more importantly, my quality of life for any ill perceived benefit from living in cities on the coasts for double or even tripple the money, ever.
Ethics dictates that never, under any circumstances, will you comply with a request to break the law for financial reasons. Morals say it too but that's not a real important topic with most slashdot followers so we'll leave it alone.
If you comply, you are just as GUILTY as those who are making the request.
I would fire anyone who works for me who did it, and all of my staff has been told that pirated software on the network or any desktop is grounds for immediate termination.
You state: "An unbiased observer might wonder about an agenda of slowing the OLPC project and the spread of open source in general" but you're not really, are you now? An unbiased observer wouldn't give a shit either way, but a biased one would.
As an Iowan, I take offense to your statements.. we don't just raise corn, we also raise pigs.
All kidding aside, you city dwellers have zero clue about food production. I mean that in every aspect too. Most of you couldn't grow a dandelion in a pot of hog manure and not even three of you probably understand what subsidies give back to you.
Farm subsidies are like illegal immigration.
Without ag subsidies you couldn't afford to eat anything made of any grain, or buy eggs, products made with eggs or milk, or for that matter, anything made with soy. Meat would be way, way more expensive too.
Without illegal immigration levels boosting the ranks of the service industries, your fresh produce would all be three or four times more expensive to buy, and restaurants would charge more because their backroom help would cost more; never mind that you'd all have to get off your lazy butts and mow your own lawns.
People forget or ignore the fact that the reason the government subsidizes agriculture is to keep farms in business when consumers won't pay a fair price. You start paying what your food costs to produce and then the government can do away with prices, until then, shove off.
It is not illegal to harvest stem cells. It is illegal to do research with stem cells using federal funds, if those cells are not part of the approved cell lines. Therefore, you may harvest stem cells to your heart's delight and do whatever research you'd like, just don't try to fund any part of that research with federal grant dollars. Don't try and make statements about stuff you don't know. You only misinform and create false facts.
not a joke, a bone-a-fi-d troll.. arabs/muslims murders, nuff said. don't like it, hand one of them a butcher knife and put your head on a plate.
have never even seen the original commodore much less used one.. maybe one or two of you might have seen an Amiga but the rest of you are just lemurs, or lemmings or whatever me-too critter is popular these days.