Most times it's because the site was slapped together with a lot of non-standard shite markup *cough*msdn*cough*
btw, I'm using moz1.5 and that site looks more or less OKish. Maybe something with 1.6. They could *really* use some organsation, tho. Anyway, i had a peek at the source and found this:
<style> <!--
/* Text Link Underline Remover Script- © Dynamic Drive (www.dynamicdrive.com) For full source code, installation instructions, 100's more DHTML scripts, and Terms Of Use, visit dynamicdrive.com */
During the ice storm blackout a few years ago i put everything on the balcony. It *was* about -20c then. It's not a great solution (think cucumbers, or anything else with a lot of water in it)
Agreed. I'm hoping the group which put this thing together releases the plans they came up with. It'd be really interesting to see how they reasoned it out. Anyone know if they've published anything?
Funny this comes up after seeing yesterday's steampunk link on/.
...they spend 5 months with their tops buried in a layer of snow.
We're not talking about Baffin Island here. The sidewalks in Montreal remain quite clear. Lots of ice from the repeated freeze/thaw cycles, sure. But there's hardly parking meter-burying snowbanks all winter.
they merely assist the guards by carrying equipment and the like into dark and unsafe places. They're primarily built to be surveillance robots, that is all!
Yeah sure, for a while. But human nature...
guard 1: Johnny-5 just came back from the ventilation system; says a M4d gang of h4xx0r5 have penetrated into the NOC - and they're armed with some really stoopid hardware.
guard 2: I'm not crawling around in there. Here, give Johhny you're shotgun...
The funny thing is that it appears to be contagious: once the disk is unreadable, it'll cause any other drive to make the same clicking.
This site has a bunch of info about click death. I was very happy i'd read this when it happened to me. Posted below is what can also happen with zip drives. NOTE that this is not the original click of death (which is caused by the heads being unable to read a disk due to it being written to badly), this is more like Click Death II - Badder Than Ever.
The media inside a Zip cartridge is completely flexible like that of a floppy diskette. Jaz cartridges use a rigid media similar to a hard disk drive, but Zip drives use thin and flexible mylar-based magnetic disks.
In rare cases, when a Zip drive's heads are being loaded into the cartridge, they snag upon the outer edge of the mylar disk which is spinning at 2,941 revolutions per minute. The result is nothing short of a total catastrophe:
Either one or both of the drive's read/write heads are usually ripped from their mountings and left dangling by their electrical interconnection wires. But while this is happening the outer edge of the rapidly spinning mylar Zip disk is significantly torn and shredded.
The drive's built-in on-board brain doesn't know what has happened, so it unloads and reloads the heads many times as it's been instructed to do when it is unable to locate, read, or write the data inside a cartridge. And the user hears a repeating "Click... Click... Click" sound, followed by an error report from whatever software was trying to perform the data transfer.
Now Hold Onto Your Seats, Because Here
Comes an Even More Horrible Catastrophe!
The unwitting user, who is now naturally quite concerned about the cartridge's irretrievable data, finds some other Zip drive, perhaps another one that they own, or maybe one belonging to a friend or co-worker. And they innocently insert their cartridge which now contains a mangled, torn, and shredded mylar disk!
This INSTANTLY kills the second Zip drive as its heads are snagged and ripped off their mountings by the torn and frayed edge of the KILLER CARTRIDGE!! This really happens, and has happened to a number of Zip drive owners with whom we have been in contact.
mmm, no - haven't read that. Sounds good. I'd been reading various things about the Maya when that interest intersected with Modern Primitives. Please don't judge me for that, though - it was way before the 'tribal' thing. Before grunge, even.
for those who didn't get in before the slashdotting, here's one of my favorites (i *think* i got it accurately, but it's so hard to tell...) "Winding finger have got bloodstream not walk. Throagh of peril." - that's priceless.
WARNING
1. With appertain rotor of screw setting pre ceiling on the under standing that scre no wield. May wield two-faced, pressboard securing. wield pre to begin with wiping ceilingof bilge dasto.
2. Thread of length need half as many again as tad.
3. Open toy of batteries shuck. Verification batteries.+,- whereafter stow down, to a certainty need locknat lest take place accident.
4. Hook through toys apside of hole.
5. Needs switches shoving NO,for pre arrows specifying of orention shoving.Pack it up time, withbold toy pate, need switches shoving OFF.
* Prythee no sport with stingy or play asperity game. Winding finger have got bloodstream not walk.
Throagh of peril.
* Tad disport of time grown man tatelage.
* Till the cowcomes home.Wield toys damage, burn-in prythee wind to a close wield.
* Give attention to open/close toys,therefore take place peril.for instance slipup batteries wield result in the emission of heat rupture liquid.vent itself prythee pay attention.
* Play at sith to a certainty bolt up power supply fetch out batteries.
* Batteries no electification dissolution.plunge ioto aquator fire.
* Not trust for tad batteries lest in advertent eat off. In the event of accident without loss of time plytheepillroller tuke order with.
May pre house the seamy side volitation!!! WARNING [with an assortment of odd icons]
Short article here about the weapons testing done in Kazakhstan.
Television and photo-journalists travelling in the region have witnessed shocking images of deformities among the local population, including the US news programme 60 Minutes which documented the image of a still-born baby with a single eye in the center of its head.
I saw that. It was extremely disturbing. The eye was also very large. It was one of many fetuses kept in jars to document the deformities.
It depends on the intended purpose, really. There's places like Mt. Weather, the 'Diefenbunke', in Carp, Ontario, etc. which were built as long-term emergency govt. shelters in case of nuclear warfare. The Russians have been building a facility at Yamantau Mountain, which has been of some interest to western intelligence agencies (among other things).
Then there are the urban facilities. London, Washington, Moscow, Tokyo all have emrgency shelters deep underground. These are periodically kept stocked with pharmaceutical/first aid items, food, water, etc. There's one under the Bank of Canada in Ottawa, for instance.
UK. There're quite a few sites out there about facilities in the UK. Anyone remember a film (fiction) from the 80', called 'secret underground', or 'underground London', or some such?
Tokyo. Google +tokyo +underground +secret +"Shun Akiba" for more. Thanks for reminding me that i want to look into whether Mr. Akiba's book has been translated to english.
Moscow. Great article. Riveting stuff. Google +Moscow +underground +diggers "Vadim Mikhailov" for more. You might see a bunch of links to stories about the Moscow theatre hostage event (by Chechen extremists). Yes, Mr. Mikhailov showed the police how to approach the theatre basement from below.
Washington/US is much trickier, as there is a *lot* of foil-hat-type stuff out there. here's a good overview of some places.
Right you are. OT, but it just occurred to me that that's a very good way to explain Phoenix DRM, Longhorn, et al to the neighbor whose box your helping to patch.
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Most times it's because the site was slapped together with a lot of non-standard shite markup *cough*msdn*cough*
btw, I'm using moz1.5 and that site looks more or less OKish. Maybe something with 1.6. They could *really* use some organsation, tho. Anyway, i had a peek at the source and found this:
This is FUNNY STUFF!
During the ice storm blackout a few years ago i put everything on the balcony. It *was* about -20c then. It's not a great solution (think cucumbers, or anything else with a lot of water in it)
I'd bet Jesus wouldn't notice that post for all the spinning he's been doing over these past 2000 years of hypocrisy.
Hey fundies: maybe Bush is the anti-Christ. Have you thought of that?
I think the grandparent was just saying that the subpoena is a nice "fuck you" for S2 in particular.
Brilliant!. And check out the pdf link - it's the exploded view and zooms quite nicely
Agreed. I'm hoping the group which put this thing together releases the plans they came up with. It'd be really interesting to see how they reasoned it out. Anyone know if they've published anything?
Funny this comes up after seeing yesterday's steampunk link on /.
We're not talking about Baffin Island here. The sidewalks in Montreal remain quite clear. Lots of ice from the repeated freeze/thaw cycles, sure. But there's hardly parking meter-burying snowbanks all winter.
they merely assist the guards by carrying equipment and the like into dark and unsafe places. They're primarily built to be surveillance robots, that is all!
Yeah sure, for a while. But human nature...
guard 1: Johnny-5 just came back from the ventilation system; says a M4d gang of h4xx0r5 have penetrated into the NOC - and they're armed with some really stoopid hardware.
guard 2: I'm not crawling around in there. Here, give Johhny you're shotgun...
Based on the parent to your post, i'd suggest he's thinking of psilocybin or acid.
The funny thing is that it appears to be contagious: once the disk is unreadable, it'll cause any other drive to make the same clicking.
This site has a bunch of info about click death. I was very happy i'd read this when it happened to me. Posted below is what can also happen with zip drives. NOTE that this is not the original click of death (which is caused by the heads being unable to read a disk due to it being written to badly), this is more like Click Death II - Badder Than Ever.
The media inside a Zip cartridge is completely flexible like that of a floppy diskette. Jaz cartridges use a rigid media similar to a hard disk drive, but Zip drives use thin and flexible mylar-based magnetic disks.
In rare cases, when a Zip drive's heads are being loaded into the cartridge, they snag upon the outer edge of the mylar disk which is spinning at 2,941 revolutions per minute. The result is nothing short of a total catastrophe:
Either one or both of the drive's read/write heads are usually ripped from their mountings and left dangling by their electrical interconnection wires. But while this is happening the outer edge of the rapidly spinning mylar Zip disk is significantly torn and shredded.
The drive's built-in on-board brain doesn't know what has happened, so it unloads and reloads the heads many times as it's been instructed to do when it is unable to locate, read, or write the data inside a cartridge. And the user hears a repeating "Click ... Click ... Click" sound, followed by an error report from whatever software was trying to perform the data transfer.
Now Hold Onto Your Seats, Because Here Comes an Even More Horrible Catastrophe!
The unwitting user, who is now naturally quite concerned about the cartridge's irretrievable data, finds some other Zip drive, perhaps another one that they own, or maybe one belonging to a friend or co-worker. And they innocently insert their cartridge which now contains a mangled, torn, and shredded mylar disk!
This INSTANTLY kills the second Zip drive as its heads are snagged and ripped off their mountings by the torn and frayed edge of the KILLER CARTRIDGE!! This really happens, and has happened to a number of Zip drive owners with whom we have been in contact.
Contagious indeed.
I think I gave my own drive away.
Maybe to the company you worked for?
How can the night be 1/2 of a day's duration? What am i missing here?
mmm, no - haven't read that. Sounds good. I'd been reading various things about the Maya when that interest intersected with Modern Primitives. Please don't judge me for that, though - it was way before the 'tribal' thing. Before grunge, even.
Thanks for the link. I'll look for that title.
i used to go by 5alligator. I saw it mentioned in a the book, 'Modern Primitives' back in the 80's and like the look/sound of it.
is that Mayan?
WARNING
1. With appertain rotor of screw setting pre ceiling on the under standing that scre no wield. May wield two-faced, pressboard securing. wield pre to begin with wiping ceilingof bilge dasto.
2. Thread of length need half as many again as tad.
3. Open toy of batteries shuck. Verification batteries.+,- whereafter stow down, to a certainty need locknat lest take place accident.
4. Hook through toys apside of hole.
5. Needs switches shoving NO,for pre arrows specifying of orention shoving.Pack it up time, withbold toy pate, need switches shoving OFF.
* Prythee no sport with stingy or play asperity game. Winding finger have got bloodstream not walk.
Throagh of peril.
* Tad disport of time grown man tatelage.
* Till the cowcomes home.Wield toys damage, burn-in prythee wind to a close wield.
* Give attention to open/close toys,therefore take place peril.for instance slipup batteries wield result in the emission of heat rupture liquid.vent itself prythee pay attention.
* Play at sith to a certainty bolt up power supply fetch out batteries.
* Batteries no electification dissolution.plunge ioto aquator fire.
* Not trust for tad batteries lest in advertent eat off. In the event of accident without loss of time plytheepillroller tuke order with.
May pre house the seamy side volitation!!!
WARNING [with an assortment of odd icons]
...drole!
On Google, you won't find link upon link cluttering up the page trying to get you to go elsewhere.
That's all google ever gives me.
Record last updated on..: 2004-Mar-31 16:50:22.
fishy, unless someone at google had a panic just as the press release went out and dialed up netsol to avoid any, er, embarrassment.
Short article here about the weapons testing done in Kazakhstan.
Television and photo-journalists travelling in the region have witnessed shocking images of deformities among the local population, including the US news programme 60 Minutes which documented the image of a still-born baby with a single eye in the center of its head.
I saw that. It was extremely disturbing. The eye was also very large. It was one of many fetuses kept in jars to document the deformities.
He had a tape of the sound the analogue exchange made before they pulled it out too...
*click* *click* No! *click* Don't - please!! *click* ka-chunk
It depends on the intended purpose, really. There's places like Mt. Weather, the 'Diefenbunke', in Carp, Ontario, etc. which were built as long-term emergency govt. shelters in case of nuclear warfare. The Russians have been building a facility at Yamantau Mountain, which has been of some interest to western intelligence agencies (among other things).
Then there are the urban facilities. London, Washington, Moscow, Tokyo all have emrgency shelters deep underground. These are periodically kept stocked with pharmaceutical/first aid items, food, water, etc. There's one under the Bank of Canada in Ottawa, for instance.
See my post to your parent for some info.
Here are some links:
UK. There're quite a few sites out there about facilities in the UK. Anyone remember a film (fiction) from the 80', called 'secret underground', or 'underground London', or some such?
Tokyo. Google +tokyo +underground +secret +"Shun Akiba" for more. Thanks for reminding me that i want to look into whether Mr. Akiba's book has been translated to english.
Moscow. Great article. Riveting stuff. Google +Moscow +underground +diggers "Vadim Mikhailov" for more. You might see a bunch of links to stories about the Moscow theatre hostage event (by Chechen extremists). Yes, Mr. Mikhailov showed the police how to approach the theatre basement from below.
Washington/US is much trickier, as there is a *lot* of foil-hat-type stuff out there. here's a good overview of some places.
Maybe somebody tried this :-)
Right you are. OT, but it just occurred to me that that's a very good way to explain Phoenix DRM, Longhorn, et al to the neighbor whose box your helping to patch.
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