It looks to me like everybody is pretty much blissfully happy with the general state of affairs, and that the people in the military rank and file are just about as loyal and satisfied as any military organization has ever been in history.
Really? Is that what you think? Do a search on suicides by US soldiers in this Iraq conflict, and get a shock.
Well, his point is in fact that they can live on a dollar a day, and we can't. So jobs, of course, leave, led by Bill Gates.
I remember being doubtful about NAFTA. Looked to me like we would lose jobs. And I remember concerns from the left that other countries wouldn't have the same pollution requirements and standards we have, which has the effect of giving them an unfair advantage.
Seemed inevitable we'd lose jobs with NAFTA, but (the Republican) Congress loved it and passed it. Thanks alot bozos.
I was fortunate to work for Digital Equipment Corp in its heyday (80's); they paid me well, and regularly sent me to training in great hotels, with per diem. When you're treated like a valued member over a long period, in a non-adversarial environment, it gives a permanent sense of inner confidence. But I know what it would have been like in your circumstance.
Just know that things are less stable these days, with the Bush Economy II; it is not you. Graduate education, curiousity, and always learning, are the keys to inner confidence today, no matter who you're in a meeting with.
I sympathize with our Euro friends, and am one American who wishes them all well.
But don't understand how a beacon could cost 2.5 kilos? All it would have to be is a pager-like device attached to the batteries, which pings until shut up by other (functioning) circuitry. It could even ping low if neighbor circuitry is dead; medium if it's upside-down; high, if it sees light. Hell, I could have made them one matchbox-size. I'm sure they were concentrating on science devices.
Although, since the cause is really martians carrying the probes into their caves, it wouldn't have helped. (sigh)
Didn't you notice the new subpoenaless powers just given to federal authorities in December?
Do you have any idea how much power has been taken away from the Judiciary in the past three years, and been given to the Executive branch?
Have you not noticed the new redistricting, combining Dem districts, and splitting Repub districts? Greatly reducing Dem numbers in Congress? The normal 10-year (agreed) redistricting was re-redistricted after elections that gave Repubs control -- it's a Tom DeLay program. One redistricted precinct in PA was actually shaped like a finger pointing at the home of a Dem congressman. Regardless of your views, do you think a monopoly is the best system? Depending on one source for your food/car/job/news/govt/etc? Because that's where we're going now at breakneck speed, Bucko.
Are you not aware that Gen. Tommy Franks recently said that in the case of another major attack, the Constitution may have to be suspended. So who decides? Hasn't America been through some pretty tough times without suspending the Constitution? Do you have any idea what all of this really means?! Surely you haven't actually thought this through.
There has recently been historic undermining of the US Constitution, intentionally promulgated by the ruling Party, which is bringing us to dictatorship.
You can't cover this up with charges of "paranoia".
Have it installed in Mandrake, but it doesn't want to start, with mythtv.desktop. I think it should actually be mythfrontend.desktop, but haven't had time to ascertain. (MySQL running and set up for Myth)
There was a controversy about 20 years ago, when ppl started noticing commercials were LOUDER than the show. Measurements were taken, and indeed with a dB meter the show and commercial volumes were about the same.
Some of us knew though, that a dB meter measures 'heating', or average level. The new trick advertisers were using was sampling, which essentially PULSED the audio, at much higher levels, so it looked the same on a meter, because its heating value (duty cycle) was equivalent, but sounded louder, because it deflected speakers more.
Replay commercial skip just looks for video blackouts, which typify transition to/from commercial. Though this makes mistakes on dark shows/interludes, it's still amazingly good.
"Mandrake is for the WinTel crowd"
I wish we could stop parroting this old canard. It's a smear of all who run Mandrake, without any thought behind it.
Dude, I for one run Mandrake on my machines, because, after struggling with Suse's bugs for 4 years, I'd wasted enough time on bit-twiddling. Not to mention that Suse9 is simply busted.
Time is an important factor these days. I don't run Linux, just to spend endless hours fiddling with scripts and researching stupid mistakes. I need to get actual work done. Most things in Mandrake work, without troubleshooting; and I can tell you that is refreshing.
In SciAm's Jan04 they note the proposal of one researcher, that (orderly) prions would be ideal for memory storage. Prions are proteins (opposed to neurons/cells) which fold in a particular way, and are present in large amounts in every brain. Their storage could be controlled, readable, and permanent. In fact he's studying them for computer memory.
So perhaps short-term in the hippocampus, maybe by neural charge, which sometimes is then (intentionally) transmitted to the cortex for long-term storage by prions. If so, surely most long-term memory problems are in access and retrieval --since that's much harder-- rather than storage failure. My brother comes to mind as an example...
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow) happens when rogue prions arrive, and touch other proteins, causing them to fold and turn into rogues as well, spreading exponentially. Prions aren't destroyed by cooking BTW, like virii and bacteria are. (um...)
The ruling Party says, "... the brain and spinal cord of the Washington dairy cow had been removed and mad cow disease is not known to be transmitted from the muscle cuts of
meat."
Hm, this is the closest they'll ever come to saying, DON'T BUY HOT DOGS, SAUSAGE, HAMBURGER, BOLOGNA, PEPPERONI, because they -do- have brains, ovaries, eyeballs, dicks, tails, etc, etc, in them!! Nevertheless, muscle contains blood, which will carry prions.
The Industry's reaction:
"Seeking to head off repercussions, U.S. cattlemen said slaughter houses should hold the carcasses of cattle that are too sick to walk until mad cow test results come back."
LOL, I can only laff, but to cry...
"Bush administration officials again emphasized that the beef supply is safe for consumers. President Bush continues to eat beef, a White House spokesman said."
Beef from where? Europe? I'm a native Texan, and when he was governor, he had just
signed the concealed weapons carry bill; a reporter asked him if someone could bring a concealed handgun into the governor's mansion, and he said "Well hell, no."
{offtopic} it's a happy accident that cooking meat breaks up its internal structure, and modifies it in a way that's nice to eat. Physical laws could have just as easily turned meat when cooked, into a rubbery gelatious mass. Would have been a real problem for cavemen.{/offtopic}
I say, that since every brain is different, the only way to selectively erase memory (whatever its mechanism) is to harness the brain itself to do it somehow, as only it knows its particular architecture. You know, like reversing: infiltrator using a CPU to provide its own memory structure.
Favorite Paycheck quote: "It concerns optics..." "Err, doy, what are ya tryin' ta see? (slobber)"
[Sigh], another one of my posts languishes at the bottom. (and hm, CSS not spoken here?)
It's the Congressional Members duty to keep their constituents informed. In a representative government, our elected officials must promote two way communication.
We are supposed to be having a representational government? Virtually every Congressional action taken in the past three years has been counter-publius.
In this day, the public library system would -never- have been created. (Socialistic, not-for-profit, communist idea of) sharing information with the undeserving unwashed. Hey, who's supposed to -pay- for a library system?!
And look how costs escalate over five years, with "absolutely nothing" to show for it! If someone thinks they deserve to have certain information, they'll hunt it down and buy it --or steal it-- like normal people do in Thunderdome.
I think far too much is being made of unsprung weight. Modern magnesium alloys vastly reduce the weight of stators to the point where it's a small factor, compared with other benefits.
Consider that a suspension is supposed to give a smooth ride; but trying to offset the ride squatting while carrying a V8 engine, not to mention the engine's effect on centrifugal force while cornering, has always been a helluva challenge.
My main concerns about electric wheels would be:
- EMI radiation, messing up nearby radio/microwave (shielding compensates);
- Keeping dirt, dust, water, sputem, vomit, etc out of the armature interface (now, this scares me).
For those who are saying this is an "old idea", well WhyTF haven't we done it then?! Yes, it's more efficient; yes, it pollutes less; yes, it's an improvement. Yes, we had the tech to do this years ago, so WHY HAVEN'T WE? Kudos to the radicals, I say.
Glad to see motor-in-wheel, and I think a turbine is the best generator.
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We have anti-spam laws now. Those will stop the spammers and email harvesters.
Recommend you broaden your news diet a little bit.
It looks to me like everybody is pretty much blissfully happy with the general state of affairs, and that the people in the military rank and file are just about as loyal and satisfied as any military organization has ever been in history.
Really? Is that what you think? Do a search on suicides by US soldiers in this Iraq conflict, and get a shock.
A bit tart... but true.
Well, his point is in fact that they can live on a dollar a day, and we can't. So jobs, of course, leave, led by Bill Gates.
I remember being doubtful about NAFTA. Looked to me like we would lose jobs. And I remember concerns from the left that other countries wouldn't have the same pollution requirements and standards we have, which has the effect of giving them an unfair advantage.
Seemed inevitable we'd lose jobs with NAFTA, but (the Republican) Congress loved it and passed it. Thanks alot bozos.
Better yet, an IBM notebook. They support Linux to a degree. And notebooks are rock-solid, (though disk drives suck).
I think John Edwards and Campaign Finance Reform is the key.
Dude... I know what you mean.
I was fortunate to work for Digital Equipment Corp in its heyday (80's); they paid me well, and regularly sent me to training in great hotels, with per diem. When you're treated like a valued member over a long period, in a non-adversarial environment, it gives a permanent sense of inner confidence. But I know what it would have been like in your circumstance.
Just know that things are less stable these days, with the Bush Economy II; it is not you. Graduate education, curiousity, and always learning, are the keys to inner confidence today, no matter who you're in a meeting with.
I sympathize with our Euro friends, and am one American who wishes them all well.
But don't understand how a beacon could cost 2.5 kilos? All it would have to be is a pager-like device attached to the batteries, which pings until shut up by other (functioning) circuitry. It could even ping low if neighbor circuitry is dead; medium if it's upside-down; high, if it sees light. Hell, I could have made them one matchbox-size. I'm sure they were concentrating on science devices.
Although, since the cause is really martians carrying the probes into their caves, it wouldn't have helped. (sigh)
Be advised, thyat just saying I'm wrong, doesn't make it.
You have to give facts, if you think you're more right, or else it's just arguing.
Didn't you notice the new subpoenaless powers just given to federal authorities in December?
Do you have any idea how much power has been taken away from the Judiciary in the past three years, and been given to the Executive branch?
Have you not noticed the new redistricting, combining Dem districts, and splitting Repub districts? Greatly reducing Dem numbers in Congress? The normal 10-year (agreed) redistricting was re-redistricted after elections that gave Repubs control -- it's a Tom DeLay program. One redistricted precinct in PA was actually shaped like a finger pointing at the home of a Dem congressman. Regardless of your views, do you think a monopoly is the best system? Depending on one source for your food/car/job/news/govt/etc? Because that's where we're going now at breakneck speed, Bucko.
Are you not aware that Gen. Tommy Franks recently said that in the case of another major attack, the Constitution may have to be suspended. So who decides? Hasn't America been through some pretty tough times without suspending the Constitution? Do you have any idea what all of this really means?! Surely you haven't actually thought this through.
There has recently been historic undermining of the US Constitution, intentionally promulgated by the ruling Party, which is bringing us to dictatorship.
You can't cover this up with charges of "paranoia".
A couple weeks ago there was a CRUNCH somewhere, that they could not pinpoint.
The hull of ISS is almost as thin as tinfoil. So now a leak?
In two weeks we'll wake up to read that the whole end of ISS tore off, and the project will be forked.
Man, vivisimo sux.
One of the loooong skinny ones?
How about banned sites?
I think it's obvious that Martians have been swatting our probes all along. What other explanation could there be?
Man, I need to try Myth.
Have it installed in Mandrake, but it doesn't want to start, with mythtv.desktop. I think it should actually be mythfrontend.desktop, but haven't had time to ascertain. (MySQL running and set up for Myth)
Actually, this is the time-frame I was thinking of... 30 years ago, not 20, LOL.
The meter they had was likely true peak AC amplitude (mVolts), rather than the (normally more convenient) RootMeansSquare (RMS)(dB) meter.
These LOUD commercials were actionable back then, when FCC rules were actually important... before Thunderdome.
There was a controversy about 20 years ago, when ppl started noticing commercials were LOUDER than the show. Measurements were taken, and indeed with a dB meter the show and commercial volumes were about the same.
Some of us knew though, that a dB meter measures 'heating', or average level. The new trick advertisers were using was sampling, which essentially PULSED the audio, at much higher levels, so it looked the same on a meter, because its heating value (duty cycle) was equivalent, but sounded louder, because it deflected speakers more.
Replay commercial skip just looks for video blackouts, which typify transition to/from commercial. Though this makes mistakes on dark shows/interludes, it's still amazingly good.
"Mandrake is for the WinTel crowd"
I wish we could stop parroting this old canard. It's a smear of all who run Mandrake, without any thought behind it.
Dude, I for one run Mandrake on my machines, because, after struggling with Suse's bugs for 4 years, I'd wasted enough time on bit-twiddling. Not to mention that Suse9 is simply busted.
Time is an important factor these days. I don't run Linux, just to spend endless hours fiddling with scripts and researching stupid mistakes. I need to get actual work done. Most things in Mandrake work, without troubleshooting; and I can tell you that is refreshing.
In SciAm's Jan04 they note the proposal of one researcher, that (orderly) prions would be ideal for memory storage. Prions are proteins (opposed to neurons/cells) which fold in a particular way, and are present in large amounts in every brain. Their storage could be controlled, readable, and permanent. In fact he's studying them for computer memory.
So perhaps short-term in the hippocampus, maybe by neural charge, which sometimes is then (intentionally) transmitted to the cortex for long-term storage by prions. If so, surely most long-term memory problems are in access and retrieval --since that's much harder-- rather than storage failure. My brother comes to mind as an example...
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow) happens when rogue prions arrive, and touch other proteins, causing them to fold and turn into rogues as well, spreading exponentially. Prions aren't destroyed by cooking BTW, like virii and bacteria are. (um...)
The ruling Party says, "... the brain and spinal cord of the Washington dairy cow had been removed and mad cow disease is not known to be transmitted from the muscle cuts of meat."
Hm, this is the closest they'll ever come to saying, DON'T BUY HOT DOGS, SAUSAGE, HAMBURGER, BOLOGNA, PEPPERONI, because they -do- have brains, ovaries, eyeballs, dicks, tails, etc, etc, in them!! Nevertheless, muscle contains blood, which will carry prions.
The Industry's reaction:
"Seeking to head off repercussions, U.S. cattlemen said slaughter houses should hold the carcasses of cattle that are too sick to walk until mad cow test results come back."
LOL, I can only laff, but to cry...
"Bush administration officials again emphasized that the beef supply is safe for consumers. President Bush continues to eat beef, a White House spokesman said."
Beef from where? Europe? I'm a native Texan, and when he was governor, he had just signed the concealed weapons carry bill; a reporter asked him if someone could bring a concealed handgun into the governor's mansion, and he said "Well hell, no."
{offtopic} it's a happy accident that cooking meat breaks up its internal structure, and modifies it in a way that's nice to eat. Physical laws could have just as easily turned meat when cooked, into a rubbery gelatious mass. Would have been a real problem for cavemen.{/offtopic}
I say, that since every brain is different, the only way to selectively erase memory (whatever its mechanism) is to harness the brain itself to do it somehow, as only it knows its particular architecture. You know, like reversing: infiltrator using a CPU to provide its own memory structure.
Favorite Paycheck quote: "It concerns optics..." "Err, doy, what are ya tryin' ta see? (slobber)"
[Sigh], another one of my posts languishes at the bottom. (and hm, CSS not spoken here?)
This is all you need, with a directional antenna.
I gotta say, NatSci's stuff is gigantic. No need for devices that size. And what kid's going to want to carry a device called "Gotcha!"? Whatever.
It's the Congressional Members duty to keep their constituents informed. In a representative government, our elected officials must promote two way communication.
We are supposed to be having a representational government? Virtually every Congressional action taken in the past three years has been counter-publius.
In this day, the public library system would -never- have been created. (Socialistic, not-for-profit, communist idea of) sharing information with the undeserving unwashed. Hey, who's supposed to -pay- for a library system?!
And look how costs escalate over five years, with "absolutely nothing" to show for it! If someone thinks they deserve to have certain information, they'll hunt it down and buy it --or steal it-- like normal people do in Thunderdome.
Hm, homokinetic couplings...
homo kinetic couplings?
homokinetic couplings...
homokinetic couplings?
Hm...
I think far too much is being made of unsprung weight. Modern magnesium alloys vastly reduce the weight of stators to the point where it's a small factor, compared with other benefits.
Consider that a suspension is supposed to give a smooth ride; but trying to offset the ride squatting while carrying a V8 engine, not to mention the engine's effect on centrifugal force while cornering, has always been a helluva challenge.
My main concerns about electric wheels would be:
- EMI radiation, messing up nearby radio/microwave (shielding compensates);
- Keeping dirt, dust, water, sputem, vomit, etc out of the armature interface (now, this scares me).
For those who are saying this is an "old idea", well WhyTF haven't we done it then?! Yes, it's more efficient; yes, it pollutes less; yes, it's an improvement. Yes, we had the tech to do this years ago, so WHY HAVEN'T WE? Kudos to the radicals, I say.
Glad to see motor-in-wheel, and I think a turbine is the best generator.
There would be little gyro effect, because most of the mass is in the stator. The wheel is just a ring with magnets.