Except that Apple was built on Woz' designs and ideas, whereas Jesse has been pretty much a complete fuckup liability up until Season 5 (where he came up with the ideas of the magnet caper and the undetectable methylamine heist).
Actually, Walter DID invent something, it just hasn't been spelled out for anybody but the chemistry geeks.
Walt's "secret recipe" is a way to create 99+% pure d-methamphetamine from starting materials that normally would create only a 50-50 mixture of the (active) d- and (inactive) l-isomers.
Such a (fictional) process allows him to manufacture pharmaceutical grade d-methamphetamine in industrial quantities without having to start from pseudoephedrine.
And if 13 ended up claiming the life of the crew, the entire program might have ended right there. The public was rapidly losing interest, and Nixon/Congress were slashing the NASA budget.
If the Cortright commission was investigating 3 deaths rather than a "close call", the ensuing shutdown and hand-wringing might have provided the impetus to cut even more missions. As it was 20 had already been killed, and part of the fallout from 13 was the cancellation of 18 and 19.
I've often wondered how Shepard's crew would have handled 13
The mission success depended on stretching the LM resources to the limit, and Fred Haise had a reputation among the astronauts as the "go-to" guy on the LM systems. Ed Mitchell, not so much.
And if the Apollo 1 fire never happened, Gus Grissom would have commanded Apollo 11. Deke Slayton (the guy who picked the crews) stated this in his autobiography.
The fact that you were dealing with stainless steel screws worked to your advantage here. Stainless is soft enough to deform under the hammer blows, but a proper hardened steel screw wouldn't do so.
The EPA can only enforce environmental laws within the US. They have no ability to enforce US environmental standards overseas, and no ability to prevent the importation of foreign-manufactured goods unless the goods THEMSELVES pose an environmental threat (such as banned pesticides).
While I completely agree with you in regards to outsourcing in order to skirt environmental regulations, the laws needed to prevent this would need to come from agencies other than the EPA. Starting with the commerce dept.
The programmer was Don Eyles, and the events described were well dramatized in the episode "For Miles and Miles" from the HBO miniseries "From the Earth to the Moon".
They don't specifically address Eyles being stoned or drunk at the time the call came in, but he was shown crashed out on a couch, and needing a LOT of coffee ASAP in order to start working...:)
The free return trajectory maneuver ("slingshot") was well known to NASA engineers, and was actually the default trajectory for all lunar missions before 13. The crew had to specifically fire the engines to enter lunar orbit. If the engines somehow failed to fire, the spacecraft was already on the proper trajectory to swing around the moon and return to earth . 13 was the first mission that was on a different initial trajectory, and required a change in order to get ONTO a free-return, but the "lunar slingshot" concept was obvious to all involved.
The "long-haired hippie at MIT" who saved an Apollo mission was named Don Eyles, and the mission was Apollo 14. Picture of Eyles as he looked in those days here:
When a loose ball of solder inside the abort switch threatened to cancel the lunar landing, Eyles was called on to write a software patch that would bypass the switch and allow the landing to continue. Full story at the "LM Tales" section of his website, which is largely devoted to his post-Apollo artwork, photography, and sculpture.
The space race between NASA and the hippies is more heated than ever, with both of the astronautic super-powers vying to be the first to land a man on the moon. "NASA will win the race to the moon, and the world will see a United States astronaut, not a longhair, walk on the moon before the turn of the decade," Apollo 10 Mission Director Gus Lance said Thursday.
Despite NASA's confidence, hippie-space-program sources report that the moon will be within their reach in mere months. "Freakonauts have already outdistanced NASA in their high rate of success with manned missions throughout the Tibetan Book of the Dead and cosmic voyages Beyond Total Awareness," said Freedog Osmosis, head of the prestigious Haight-Ashbury Center for Astraldynamic Research.
"And current missions are flying higher than ever. Take me, for example. I'm sitting right in front of you. Yet, even as we speak, I'm orbiting at tremendous altitudes." "We are 12 to 16 weeks away from having all the vibes in place to launch, orbit and land a hippie on the moon," Osmosis said, "as well as to return him safely to a big oversized floor pillow after wear-off and subsequent crashpad re-entry burn."
If you look at the corporate funders of groups like the Partnership for a Drug-Free America and the like, Alcohol, Tobacco, and Pharmaceutical companies are always near the top.
There is a LOT of money being made (and profits being protected) by keeping pot illegal.
Eating the stuff also requires quite a bit more pot than smoking does. As long as prices stay where they are (driven by the illegal status), smoking (or vaporizing) provide the best "bang for the buck", unless you have access to large amounts of trimmings from a grower or something...
Sure, those of legal age can go into all kinds of stores, bars, or restaurants and get all the booze we want. But the fact that booze is regulated and sold by licensed establishments tends to keep sales to underage buyers fairly low. Sure, teens will still approach strangers to ask them to buy for them, but even that is being cracked down on these days.
The guy selling dime bags doesn't check IDs, and could easily be a friend or schoolmate that travels in the same social circles.
The only time when I have noticed weed being particularly hard to come by is if I am in an unfamiliar area (vacation, etc.), and don't know any other smokers who have local connections. I miss the days of being able to bring a stash with you on a trip, but not since 9/11 has that been particularly easy...
Back in the 1950s, anyone who was gay was considered as being vulnerable to blackmail by the "filthy reds", who could threaten to expose them unless the subject agreed to work undercover for the commies.
They even applied this standard to the relatively few people who were OPENLY gay, even though there was no basis for exposing somebody who was already out of the closet.
I'm wondering if the current incarnation of "Hewlett Packard" is even the company they want to be boycotting. HP is now a maker of commodity PCs and printers.
I'm thinking that back in 1983, HP's high end test and measurement gear was probably used for monitoring weapons tests at Los Alamos, etc. (along with similar products from Tektronix, LeCroy, GenRad, Fluke, and every other test and measurement vendor under the sun.), but that entire division was spun off into a completely separate company, Agilent Technologies.
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I wonder if that is some kind of reference to the obscure stoner flick "J-men Forever"...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080940/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J-Men_Forever
Foxconn doesn't make anything either...
Actually, they were (and still are) a manufacturer of cables, connectors, etc. well before they branched out into contract assembly.
Except that Apple was built on Woz' designs and ideas, whereas Jesse has been pretty much a complete fuckup liability up until Season 5 (where he came up with the ideas of the magnet caper and the undetectable methylamine heist).
Maybe the inspiration for the iPhone 6 design will come to him while taking a dump and reading a poetry book?
Actually, Walter DID invent something, it just hasn't been spelled out for anybody but the chemistry geeks.
Walt's "secret recipe" is a way to create 99+% pure d-methamphetamine from starting materials that normally would create only a 50-50 mixture of the (active) d- and (inactive) l-isomers.
Such a (fictional) process allows him to manufacture pharmaceutical grade d-methamphetamine in industrial quantities without having to start from pseudoephedrine.
PB Blaster works OK, but it STINKS.
Kroil works just as well if not better, and doesn't stench you out of the garage...
http://www.kanolabs.com/
And if 13 ended up claiming the life of the crew, the entire program might have ended right there. The public was rapidly losing interest, and Nixon/Congress were slashing the NASA budget.
If the Cortright commission was investigating 3 deaths rather than a "close call", the ensuing shutdown and hand-wringing might have provided the impetus to cut even more missions. As it was 20 had already been killed, and part of the fallout from 13 was the cancellation of 18 and 19.
I've often wondered how Shepard's crew would have handled 13
The mission success depended on stretching the LM resources to the limit, and Fred Haise had a reputation among the astronauts as the "go-to" guy on the LM systems. Ed Mitchell, not so much.
And if the Apollo 1 fire never happened, Gus Grissom would have commanded Apollo 11. Deke Slayton (the guy who picked the crews) stated this in his autobiography.
The fact that you were dealing with stainless steel screws worked to your advantage here. Stainless is soft enough to deform under the hammer blows, but a proper hardened steel screw wouldn't do so.
http://www.neystadt.org/john/humor/IBM-Mouse-Balls.htm
The EPA can only enforce environmental laws within the US. They have no ability to enforce US environmental standards overseas, and no ability to prevent the importation of foreign-manufactured goods unless the goods THEMSELVES pose an environmental threat (such as banned pesticides).
While I completely agree with you in regards to outsourcing in order to skirt environmental regulations, the laws needed to prevent this would need to come from agencies other than the EPA. Starting with the commerce dept.
The programmer was Don Eyles, and the events described were well dramatized in the episode "For Miles and Miles" from the HBO miniseries "From the Earth to the Moon".
They don't specifically address Eyles being stoned or drunk at the time the call came in, but he was shown crashed out on a couch, and needing a LOT of coffee ASAP in order to start working...:)
The free return trajectory maneuver ("slingshot") was well known to NASA engineers, and was actually the default trajectory for all lunar missions before 13. The crew had to specifically fire the engines to enter lunar orbit. If the engines somehow failed to fire, the spacecraft was already on the proper trajectory to swing around the moon and return to earth . 13 was the first mission that was on a different initial trajectory, and required a change in order to get ONTO a free-return, but the "lunar slingshot" concept was obvious to all involved.
The "long-haired hippie at MIT" who saved an Apollo mission was named Don Eyles, and the mission was Apollo 14. Picture of Eyles as he looked in those days here:
http://pophop.tumblr.com/post/7532929166/m-i-t-programmer-don-eyles-posing-in-the-draper
When a loose ball of solder inside the abort switch threatened to cancel the lunar landing, Eyles was called on to write a software patch that would bypass the switch and allow the landing to continue. Full story at the "LM Tales" section of his website, which is largely devoted to his post-Apollo artwork, photography, and sculpture.
http://www.doneyles.com/supersymandala.html
The space race between NASA and the hippies is more heated than ever, with both of the astronautic super-powers vying to be the first to land a man on the moon. "NASA will win the race to the moon, and the world will see a United States astronaut, not a longhair, walk on the moon before the turn of the decade," Apollo 10 Mission Director Gus Lance said Thursday.
Despite NASA's confidence, hippie-space-program sources report that the moon will be within their reach in mere months. "Freakonauts have already outdistanced NASA in their high rate of success with manned missions throughout the Tibetan Book of the Dead and cosmic voyages Beyond Total Awareness," said Freedog Osmosis, head of the prestigious Haight-Ashbury Center for Astraldynamic Research.
"And current missions are flying higher than ever. Take me, for example. I'm sitting right in front of you. Yet, even as we speak, I'm orbiting at tremendous altitudes." "We are 12 to 16 weeks away from having all the vibes in place to launch, orbit and land a hippie on the moon," Osmosis said, "as well as to return him safely to a big oversized floor pillow after wear-off and subsequent crashpad re-entry burn."
What's left of the test area is a toxic and radioactive waste site, as well...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Susana_Field_Laboratory
Sounds like these little guys have been watching too much Breaking Bad....
If you look at the corporate funders of groups like the Partnership for a Drug-Free America and the like, Alcohol, Tobacco, and Pharmaceutical companies are always near the top.
There is a LOT of money being made (and profits being protected) by keeping pot illegal.
Eating the stuff also requires quite a bit more pot than smoking does. As long as prices stay where they are (driven by the illegal status), smoking (or vaporizing) provide the best "bang for the buck", unless you have access to large amounts of trimmings from a grower or something...
But you have to sit in the station for a while after the doors close, while the cathodes warm up....
Sure, those of legal age can go into all kinds of stores, bars, or restaurants and get all the booze we want. But the fact that booze is regulated and sold by licensed establishments tends to keep sales to underage buyers fairly low. Sure, teens will still approach strangers to ask them to buy for them, but even that is being cracked down on these days.
The guy selling dime bags doesn't check IDs, and could easily be a friend or schoolmate that travels in the same social circles.
The only time when I have noticed weed being particularly hard to come by is if I am in an unfamiliar area (vacation, etc.), and don't know any other smokers who have local connections. I miss the days of being able to bring a stash with you on a trip, but not since 9/11 has that been particularly easy...
[url]http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CFR-2010-title47-vol1/xml/CFR-2010-title47-vol1-sec15-121.xml[/url]
Then why are analog cell phone frequency bands blocked on scanners?
Back in the 1950s, anyone who was gay was considered as being vulnerable to blackmail by the "filthy reds", who could threaten to expose them unless the subject agreed to work undercover for the commies.
They even applied this standard to the relatively few people who were OPENLY gay, even though there was no basis for exposing somebody who was already out of the closet.
I'm wondering if the current incarnation of "Hewlett Packard" is even the company they want to be boycotting. HP is now a maker of commodity PCs and printers.
I'm thinking that back in 1983, HP's high end test and measurement gear was probably used for monitoring weapons tests at Los Alamos, etc. (along with similar products from Tektronix, LeCroy, GenRad, Fluke, and every other test and measurement vendor under the sun.), but that entire division was spun off into a completely separate company, Agilent Technologies.