Blood also contains a protein called catalase. It makes the hydrogen peroxide that you put on a wounds bubble up with little oxygen bubbles. Yeast contains the same protein. Mix yeast and 3% peroxide solution and you get ------ oxygen and water. Stick a burning match in it and it burns with a bright white flame like a welding torch.
Huh? There was an attack in 1993 and a repeat attack on the same freaking target in 2001. So whatever was done after 1993 apparently wasn't too effective.
Right, and there was a "calm" period of approximately 8 years 6.5 months between 2/26/1993 and 9/11/2001. It's only been 5 years 2.5 months since 9/11/2001. Who's to say what's going to happen in the next 3 years and 4 months? No precedent is being set here yet.
*You took a one-way trip to assist in disaster aid in New Orleans or Thailand in the last two years, not knowing when you would be comfortable with/forced to leave the area.
I think that (if the system was remotely smart) it wouldn't raise the rating. What would set off red flags would be one-way flights from certain Middle Eastern countries into the US. Or maybe even flights during the period of an uncompleted round trip from those countries.
There has not been an al-queda attack on american soil since 9/11, this is absolute proof that these new policies of privacy invasion and loss of freedom are working to keep you safe.
Nor was there one between 1994 and 2000, which is a longer period than 2002-2006. Were the government's policies keeping us safe then?
Do their planes only take off 1Time? Or are you so afraid of flying after the experience that you only use the airline's services 1Time? And the.aero TLD is just ugly in a URL.
I assume that there are also degrees of sociopathy i.e. it's not an on/off black/white type of thing. And the majority of sociopaths would still control themselves - one of the aspects of sociopathy is that a sociopath will disregard the rights of others for personal gain. But I hesitate to say how intentionally hitting someone will gain you anything. In the best case, you'd get a dent and a bit of blood on your car, still have some explaining to do to your wife, and (if you report it as an accident) have a lot of paperwork to fill out at the police station. Not to mention the lawsuits. Worst case: execution for Murder One or not hurting the cyclist much and having the crap kicked out of you by him.
I'm in Chicago and I'm still amazed by how "good" most motorists are to me during the commute from the south side up through the Loop...and I mean "good" in comparison to the way I've had drivers act when I've biked 50 to 100 miles outside the city during some easy touring.
Also fewer drunken yahoos, since the drunks are more likely to walk home in the city rather than driving around throwing beer bottles at any convenient object.
I don't fully trust people not to intentionally hit me. Sure they might get a hefty fine, but that would be cold consolation for my estate.
I don't think that the majority of people are psychopaths. I.e. they'll try to squeeze cyclists and block them, but intentional hitting someone with the risk of death[1] is more than most people can stomach. I mean, there are so many other ways to kill someone yet you're probably more likely to slip in the shower and break your neck than to get murdered.
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[1]- for both parties. A pissed-off bike messenger waving a heavy lock chain is not to be messed with.
Riding predictably, obeying traffic laws and signals, and conducting oneself in a courteous yet assertive manner is a much better form of applied advocacy than the "FUCK YOU, CAGER!" rhetoric with which so many urban cyclists seem obsessed. Bullshit machismo is bullshit machismo.
The "fuck you..." in me only comes out when someone's an asshat for no reason. After all, I do drive too, though less than I used to since I've started working in NYC. Throwing things or deliberately trying to cut off cyclists who are moving to the front of the line on the shoulder is way over the line.
Speaking of NYC, people there seem to treat cyclists with more respect than in some of the wealthier suburbs. i.e., I've had people drive aggressively in NYC, but not overtly be abusive. When I ride the folding bike, I even get quite a few "hey, cool bike, where can I get one?" comments.
This is actually something I need to deal with coming up. I'm working on a project at university building a hybrid-electric racecar, and I'm going to be using a single-board computer for closed-loop control on some systems, and for data acquisition.
Tour de Sol? BTDT 4 years ago. I think you'd probably be better off with a network of PIC microcontrollers running real-time code. Faster and less prone to crashing or slugging. In addition, they have built in analog I/O capabilities. If you're afraid of assembly language, they can be programmed in C. Use a PC for the final data acquisition stage and for human interface (running digital dash, etc), but don't use one for critical tasks.
Releasing either a LiveCD (which uses a HDD partition for data storage) or a VM image with the development environment and Linux distro preinstalled? That way, you can very tightly control how the devkit operates.
Not that many college students or recent graduates are in the 40% tax bracket.
I could see 25-28% + 7.5% Social Security and then having state and local (yes, such things exist unfortunately:/) income taxes tacked on to that. So that's at least 32.5% of income above $30k plus state and local taxes. So 40% might not be a bad approximation after all. Of course, there are things that can be deducted, and income below $30k is taxed at a lower rate, so it's not really 40%, but pretty close.
Then I graduated and all of a sudden I had a lot of expenses piling up before I had even started the job. I had to find a new apartment and pay the deposit, and the rent (before I was being paid). Then I bought a car and had to pay for my insurance. Then there was my credit card bill that was getting bigger everyday with all of the new apartment expenses and pre-new-job expenses (mainly work clothes).
You could start your own business, do tech work on a freelance basis and hire other people. It takes less money than you'd think and once you build up a business you'll be able to have it work for you and move on to other stuff (like grad school) if you want. Being a wage slave for the rest of your life is not the only way to go.
But if I didn't have the money for a mercedes, I'd probably still not want to walk.
Or you (or I) would buy a used Mercedes. The 300D and the later E-class diesels were freakin' tanks and routinely break 300,000 miles. Actually, I ended up getting a used Volvo 240 which cost me $1,100 3 years ago, has as much space inside as many SUVs, gets 30 mpg on the highway and thanks to slightly oversize tires and intrinsically high ground clearance is a beast in snow and on dirt roads. Not a luxury car, but still a well-built car that's still easily fixable with basic tools.
Feully headers = slang robbed from Christine, IIRC. Have no idea what they are.
I thought "fuelie" was slang for fuel injection. Maybe the car in question had an aftermarket (mechanical?) fuel injection system? Or maybe the headers were from a fuel injected car which was the sportier model that also came with freer flowing headers.
Everyone I know who tries to use Linux (usually Ubuntu) for their desktop invariably tells me brief stories about how proud they are that they've gotten some aspect of it working correctly.
Ubuntu installed fine on my desktop with the HDD that crashed and needed to be replaced. Installation took about 1/2 hour. No pesky keys or validation needed. All the drivers, except the one for the wireless network card were already present. For the wireless card, I used the Windows driver with ndiswrapper. Detailed instructions were available on the Web. Better than installing 20 drivers on XP. With quite a few XP installs, even the *wired* networking doesn't work out of the box, which is a problem if you need to download drivers from a company site!
Overall you're probably getting better quality for your dollar, but if you only have a few dollars, that doesn't matter much. While the other PC vendors are fighting for every little cent on sub $400 PC's, Apple is selling $2500 PC's and making enormous margins.
Re: Laptops ---
For ~$1000, you can get a Mac laptop that's solidly built, fairly light, if a bit hot-running. In the $1000 range from other makers, you mostly get bloated overweight crap that manages to throw in a lot of features while weighing roughly as much as an Abrams tank but not having the benefit of being self-propelled.
This is only slightly less than the 22/30 gas mileage that 4 door sedans get (the Civic throws this off, otherwise it'd be around 28). Obviously there are better vehicles for getting better gas mileage, but for people that want a little more space, have a family, or need to move larger objects once in a while, minivans aren't a bad option.
For a family with 2 kids, what about something like a Honda Fit or Scion? They should fit 4 adults and a child seat and have a nice squareback cargo area behind the rear seats. There's also the option of a Jetta or Passat diesel wagon, but that's skewing the stats since a diesel minivan with good mileage could also theoretically be produced, but isn't due to excessive (IMHO) US environmental restrictions and lack of American interest.
BTW- I grew up in the 80s, and my family didn't even have a 4-door car until I was about 10. We had an older Honda Accord hatchback and a Volvo 142 (which was somewhere in between a new Civic and Accord in size IIRC). My dad finally got an Olds 88 wagon, but no one wanted to drive it because it was less than reliable - it ended up seizing up completely at 50,000 miles. There were even quite a few trips from NY down to Florida in the Volvo.
About 18 months ago, my daughter made some remark about the extra few pounds I've put on in the last couple of years and I pulled out my beautiful old road bike and started riding the 25km to work every day.
Out of curiosity, how do you deal with riding in summer when it's 90F and humid as hell out? Do you just wear very light clothes, take it slow, and change upon getting to work? Does your workplace have showers?
it doesn't take a nobel prize-winning physicist to know who wins the battle between an Escalade and a Schwinn.
Bikes are more maneuverable and city traffic seldom averages faster than 15-20mph. Also depends what you mean by "win" - a kick to the door or a twisted mirror of some driver that's deliberately being an asshole (not just being inattentive, but actively trying to squeeze you onto the sidewalk while yelling rudeness) is always possible. For the careless drivers, a loud yell or a blast from a cycle air horn generally wakes them up pretty quickly.
You really want to have 500 network home directory users indexing your fileservers, possibly all at once?
It doesn't have multiple computers index at once, believe it or not. It uses a protocol that designates one of the computers using the root directory of the resource as a "master" indexer, the others are "slaves." After the indexing is done, the copy of the index on the resource itself is "published" to a local copy on all the computers connected to the resource - that local copy is periodically updated. Since the kernel tracks file changes and sends them to the master index, indexing in theory is only needed once if all of the computers connected to the share are running Tiger or better. I have it re-index biweekly just to be safe.
Entourage is a steaming pile of crap anyway. My clients are about 75/20/5 PC/Mac/Other. I've seen Outlook get really slow and almost useless. However, I've seen the database (.pst) file get corrupted and lose messages maybe 2 or 3 times. With Entourage, I've seen the DB get corrupted and lose *all* data about the same number of times despite the lower usage. It's also much slower to resync with an Exchange server than Outlook and unless you dot every i and cross every t during setup, it often doesn't work at all. And I've never seen the feature where you just type in the username, password, and server name and it fetches the rest of the settings working.
So if you use Entourage - backup, Backup, BACKUP. And use something sane like Thunderbird or even Mac Mail unless you're actually syncing with an Exchange server (rather than a garden-variety IMAP service).
Serious question, do you know anything I can do to make my windows XP secure?
Don't go to skeezy sites - porn indices & poker. Stick it behind a hardware firewall. I'd use a LinITX box running IPCop and Copfilter, but that's just me. Run good antivirus (Avast or Kaspersky seem to work for me, Norton/McAfee worked poorly and slowed things down too much).
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Right, and there was a "calm" period of approximately 8 years 6.5 months between 2/26/1993 and 9/11/2001. It's only been 5 years 2.5 months since 9/11/2001. Who's to say what's going to happen in the next 3 years and 4 months? No precedent is being set here yet.
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I think that (if the system was remotely smart) it wouldn't raise the rating. What would set off red flags would be one-way flights from certain Middle Eastern countries into the US. Or maybe even flights during the period of an uncompleted round trip from those countries.
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Nor was there one between 1994 and 2000, which is a longer period than 2002-2006. Were the government's policies keeping us safe then?
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Nah, the Halal Chicken will just be laced with Rohypnol to make all who consume it unconscious for the duration of the flight.
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Do their planes only take off 1Time? Or are you so afraid of flying after the experience that you only use the airline's services 1Time? And the .aero TLD is just ugly in a URL.
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I assume that there are also degrees of sociopathy i.e. it's not an on/off black/white type of thing. And the majority of sociopaths would still control themselves - one of the aspects of sociopathy is that a sociopath will disregard the rights of others for personal gain. But I hesitate to say how intentionally hitting someone will gain you anything. In the best case, you'd get a dent and a bit of blood on your car, still have some explaining to do to your wife, and (if you report it as an accident) have a lot of paperwork to fill out at the police station. Not to mention the lawsuits. Worst case: execution for Murder One or not hurting the cyclist much and having the crap kicked out of you by him.
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Also fewer drunken yahoos, since the drunks are more likely to walk home in the city rather than driving around throwing beer bottles at any convenient object.
-b.
I don't think that the majority of people are psychopaths. I.e. they'll try to squeeze cyclists and block them, but intentional hitting someone with the risk of death[1] is more than most people can stomach. I mean, there are so many other ways to kill someone yet you're probably more likely to slip in the shower and break your neck than to get murdered.
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[1]- for both parties. A pissed-off bike messenger waving a heavy lock chain is not to be messed with.
The "fuck you..." in me only comes out when someone's an asshat for no reason. After all, I do drive too, though less than I used to since I've started working in NYC. Throwing things or deliberately trying to cut off cyclists who are moving to the front of the line on the shoulder is way over the line.
Speaking of NYC, people there seem to treat cyclists with more respect than in some of the wealthier suburbs. i.e., I've had people drive aggressively in NYC, but not overtly be abusive. When I ride the folding bike, I even get quite a few "hey, cool bike, where can I get one?" comments.
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Can't you reply, "Go Fatass! Oh wait, you're *not* going while I pass all of your asses on the shoulder. Muhahahahahaha!" ?
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Tour de Sol? BTDT 4 years ago. I think you'd probably be better off with a network of PIC microcontrollers running real-time code. Faster and less prone to crashing or slugging. In addition, they have built in analog I/O capabilities. If you're afraid of assembly language, they can be programmed in C. Use a PC for the final data acquisition stage and for human interface (running digital dash, etc), but don't use one for critical tasks.
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I could see 25-28% + 7.5% Social Security and then having state and local (yes, such things exist unfortunately :/) income taxes tacked on to that. So that's at least 32.5% of income above $30k plus state and local taxes. So 40% might not be a bad approximation after all. Of course, there are things that can be deducted, and income below $30k is taxed at a lower rate, so it's not really 40%, but pretty close.
-b.
You could start your own business, do tech work on a freelance basis and hire other people. It takes less money than you'd think and once you build up a business you'll be able to have it work for you and move on to other stuff (like grad school) if you want. Being a wage slave for the rest of your life is not the only way to go.
-b.
Or you (or I) would buy a used Mercedes. The 300D and the later E-class diesels were freakin' tanks and routinely break 300,000 miles. Actually, I ended up getting a used Volvo 240 which cost me $1,100 3 years ago, has as much space inside as many SUVs, gets 30 mpg on the highway and thanks to slightly oversize tires and intrinsically high ground clearance is a beast in snow and on dirt roads. Not a luxury car, but still a well-built car that's still easily fixable with basic tools.
-b.
I thought "fuelie" was slang for fuel injection. Maybe the car in question had an aftermarket (mechanical?) fuel injection system? Or maybe the headers were from a fuel injected car which was the sportier model that also came with freer flowing headers.
-b.
Ubuntu installed fine on my desktop with the HDD that crashed and needed to be replaced. Installation took about 1/2 hour. No pesky keys or validation needed. All the drivers, except the one for the wireless network card were already present. For the wireless card, I used the Windows driver with ndiswrapper. Detailed instructions were available on the Web. Better than installing 20 drivers on XP. With quite a few XP installs, even the *wired* networking doesn't work out of the box, which is a problem if you need to download drivers from a company site!
-b.
Re: Laptops ---
For ~$1000, you can get a Mac laptop that's solidly built, fairly light, if a bit hot-running. In the $1000 range from other makers, you mostly get bloated overweight crap that manages to throw in a lot of features while weighing roughly as much as an Abrams tank but not having the benefit of being self-propelled.
-b.
For a family with 2 kids, what about something like a Honda Fit or Scion? They should fit 4 adults and a child seat and have a nice squareback cargo area behind the rear seats. There's also the option of a Jetta or Passat diesel wagon, but that's skewing the stats since a diesel minivan with good mileage could also theoretically be produced, but isn't due to excessive (IMHO) US environmental restrictions and lack of American interest.
BTW- I grew up in the 80s, and my family didn't even have a 4-door car until I was about 10. We had an older Honda Accord hatchback and a Volvo 142 (which was somewhere in between a new Civic and Accord in size IIRC). My dad finally got an Olds 88 wagon, but no one wanted to drive it because it was less than reliable - it ended up seizing up completely at 50,000 miles. There were even quite a few trips from NY down to Florida in the Volvo.
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Out of curiosity, how do you deal with riding in summer when it's 90F and humid as hell out? Do you just wear very light clothes, take it slow, and change upon getting to work? Does your workplace have showers?
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Bikes are more maneuverable and city traffic seldom averages faster than 15-20mph. Also depends what you mean by "win" - a kick to the door or a twisted mirror of some driver that's deliberately being an asshole (not just being inattentive, but actively trying to squeeze you onto the sidewalk while yelling rudeness) is always possible. For the careless drivers, a loud yell or a blast from a cycle air horn generally wakes them up pretty quickly.
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It doesn't have multiple computers index at once, believe it or not. It uses a protocol that designates one of the computers using the root directory of the resource as a "master" indexer, the others are "slaves." After the indexing is done, the copy of the index on the resource itself is "published" to a local copy on all the computers connected to the resource - that local copy is periodically updated. Since the kernel tracks file changes and sends them to the master index, indexing in theory is only needed once if all of the computers connected to the share are running Tiger or better. I have it re-index biweekly just to be safe.
-b.
So if you use Entourage - backup, Backup, BACKUP. And use something sane like Thunderbird or even Mac Mail unless you're actually syncing with an Exchange server (rather than a garden-variety IMAP service).
-b.
Don't go to skeezy sites - porn indices & poker. Stick it behind a hardware firewall. I'd use a LinITX box running IPCop and Copfilter, but that's just me. Run good antivirus (Avast or Kaspersky seem to work for me, Norton/McAfee worked poorly and slowed things down too much).
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