A while back I was talking to this bloke who's young son has Aspberger's, and when they would be sitting watching tv and two or three ads would go by and then suddenly he would jump up and run out of the room screaming. Almost invariably one of a series of quite graphic government sponsored [TAC] road safety ads would then appear. Seems he had the ability to recognise the combination of the types of ads that immediately preceded the scary ones.
"The Boy Scouts were formed to make boys of upright character to serve the military and the Empire well."
Some people see parallels between these and the Hitler Youth. Note also the picture of the young boy on this page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Youth/
I saw it 46 hours ago (I missed the opportunity to say 42 hours) and I must admit I have never read the book, only heard my son relating the highlights as he read it. It seems to me that the film mainly serves to remind you of the funny bits you read in the book rather than being amusing in itself. If you read and like the book then the film will probably be ok, but if you go and see the film cold like me then you might just be glancing at your watch and waiting till you can get back home and read/.
I bought a box for about AUD$130 in mid January. With 12 inches of wire hanging out the antenna conector it gives a perfect pic. We are perhaps 15 miles from 50kW transmitters. The point for me is, the box cost about the same today as for someone to come out I think 6 or 7 years ago to put an antenna in the roof/attic and cable it to a socket on the wall. I say if you need a new antenna, consider a STB instead.
I was only out by a factor of ten! I've got really bad hay-fever today:-( 3MW @ 300V is 10,000 amps, not 1000! The conductors would need to be about 3 inches square... Even more problematical is the connector.
Once upon a time most people subscribed to the notion that something could be definitely right or wrong in a moral sense. Nowadays this concept doesn't seem to popular. Rather, what is "right" or "wrong" seems to be whether or not it is inside or outside the envelope of a running average of whatever a given group of people will tolerate *at a given time*.
Just say you juice up your car with 50 kWhr in 1 minute. Electricity will be gushing in at the rate of 3 MW, i.e. 4000 HP. Even with a 300V battery thats 1000 amps. Would need something more than a regular plug-pack / wall-wart I think:-0
He rested on the seventh, remember? Anyway, "when saying the earth orbited the sun instead of the other way around was declared heresy, and punishable by torture and death." First, this punishment was meted out by at least the Catholic Church, which as history has shown, and continues to show, has no particular regard for Bible standards, particularly as regards idolatry, bloodshed and sexual immorality. They have hardly made an issue of upholding the Bible unless it is a pretence for furthering their own desires. Second, astronomers to this day talk of a star or even the sun for that matter, rising or setting at a certain time, yet they know full well it is only an illusion to an earthbound observer. This is simply the way the Bible states it too.
MS doesn't support QBASIC anymore either. Hasn't stopped me from continuing to use it. Same with VB. Your apps are still going to run. You will still be able to write stuff. You won't wake up the day after they quit support and be staring at a black screen.
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Huh? Has MS taken out a patent on telling fibs, and does it think MS-Watch is telling the same but without permission or licence?
I think the real questions is: why did the BBC (who presumably make Dr. Who) run a story on it thereby telling the rest of the world so they can go looking for it???
Non-historical accounts, i.e. fictional or perhaps fabricated events often start of in this manner: Once upon a time in a far-off land there lived a king who had a beautiful daughter etc. No names, no dates, no place names etc. By contrast, in the account of John the Baptizer turning up in advance of Jesus it says this: "In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was district ruler of Galilee, but Philip his brother was district ruler of the country of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was district ruler of Abilene, 2 in the days of chief priest Annas and of Caiaphas, God's declaration came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness." Here we have no less than seven people mentioned by name and holding public office (for which secular records would have existed), and five place names. What's more, seeing all of these people were contemporaries it narrows down the time considerably. Tiberius Caesar in particular is well known as reagrds the times of his reign.
Also, Josephus, a secular historian of those days wrote in Antiquities 18. 63-64 "At this time there was a wise man who was called Jesus, and his conduct was good, and he was known to be virtuous. And many people from among the Jews and the other nations became his disciples. Pilate condemned him to be crucified and to die. And those who had become his disciples did not abandon their loyalty to him. They reported that he had appeared to them three days after his crucifixion, and that he was alive. Accordingly they believed that he was the Messiah, concerning whom the Prophets have recounted wonders." Jesus was no friend of Josephus' so he had no agenda to push; he simply made passing mention of a real person.
==Phrack Inc.==
Volume Three, Issue Thirty-one, Phile #1 of 9
Issue XXXI Index
P H R A C K 3 1
05/28\90
Welcome to a new begining of Phrack Inc. Yes, Phrack is not dead.
On the contrary, Phrack will and can't ever die. Phrack is more than just
BTW, I had to format the above slightly so I could post it./. bounced it with the error message
"Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
Reason: Please use fewer 'junk' characters."
Is it trying to tell us something?
"more likely that the universe is 13.7 Billion years old and was not made in 7 days with humans at the beginning in the garden of eden"
Have a look at the Bible account and you will see that it says nothing about the age of the earth or Universe. What it *does* say is that having existed for an unspecified time (billions of years is =fine=) the earth was a sort of blobby, sloppy kind of mess. God then decided it was time to prepare it for habitation so in six epochs of time loosely referred to as "days" - each perhaps many thousands of years long - things were whipped into shape. Plants, grass, trees, fish, birds, animals, people. What's more, it is described from the standpoint of a person viewing things from the earth's surface, hence the reference to stars, sun and moon appearing in the sky at a certain point as the heavy clouds, dust and gases cleared away. Obviously they were already there in space, just not yet visible to an observer on earth's surface.
The idea that everything appeared in 6 24 hour days is way off the mark, and does a dis-service to the simple account the Bible gives of things. As stated above, the globe of the earth and the rest of the physical universe was ALREADY IN EXISTENCE for yonks before these "days" occurred for the preparation of the earth for living things.
...would be to see if it could fix Michael Jackson's face. Actually, maybe they could punish vile criminals by using it to print a reproduction of his face over their's.
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A while back I was talking to this bloke who's young son has Aspberger's, and when they would be sitting watching tv and two or three ads would go by and then suddenly he would jump up and run out of the room screaming. Almost invariably one of a series of quite graphic government sponsored [TAC] road safety ads would then appear. Seems he had the ability to recognise the combination of the types of ads that immediately preceded the scary ones.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Youth
"The Boy Scouts were formed to make boys of upright character to serve the military and the Empire well." Some people see parallels between these and the Hitler Youth. Note also the picture of the young boy on this page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Youth/
I saw it 46 hours ago (I missed the opportunity to say 42 hours) and I must admit I have never read the book, only heard my son relating the highlights as he read it. It seems to me that the film mainly serves to remind you of the funny bits you read in the book rather than being amusing in itself. If you read and like the book then the film will probably be ok, but if you go and see the film cold like me then you might just be glancing at your watch and waiting till you can get back home and read /.
I bought a box for about AUD$130 in mid January. With 12 inches of wire hanging out the antenna conector it gives a perfect pic. We are perhaps 15 miles from 50kW transmitters. The point for me is, the box cost about the same today as for someone to come out I think 6 or 7 years ago to put an antenna in the roof/attic and cable it to a socket on the wall. I say if you need a new antenna, consider a STB instead.
You could always try to get a lighter setence by having the charge changed to killing an animal; or lighter still - killing a human.
"Yes, there are too many TLDs already. If you want to fix DNS, why not fix DNS." .TLA to become available ;-)
I'm waiting for
I was only out by a factor of ten! I've got really bad hay-fever today :-( 3MW @ 300V is 10,000 amps, not 1000! The conductors would need to be about 3 inches square... Even more problematical is the connector.
Once upon a time most people subscribed to the notion that something could be definitely right or wrong in a moral sense. Nowadays this concept doesn't seem to popular. Rather, what is "right" or "wrong" seems to be whether or not it is inside or outside the envelope of a running average of whatever a given group of people will tolerate *at a given time*.
Just say you juice up your car with 50 kWhr in 1 minute. Electricity will be gushing in at the rate of 3 MW, i.e. 4000 HP. Even with a 300V battery thats 1000 amps. Would need something more than a regular plug-pack / wall-wart I think :-0
Plug it into a length of network cable and it would definitely be a case of "the tail wagging the dog" :-P
He rested on the seventh, remember? Anyway, "when saying the earth orbited the sun instead of the other way around was declared heresy, and punishable by torture and death." First, this punishment was meted out by at least the Catholic Church, which as history has shown, and continues to show, has no particular regard for Bible standards, particularly as regards idolatry, bloodshed and sexual immorality. They have hardly made an issue of upholding the Bible unless it is a pretence for furthering their own desires. Second, astronomers to this day talk of a star or even the sun for that matter, rising or setting at a certain time, yet they know full well it is only an illusion to an earthbound observer. This is simply the way the Bible states it too.
Like see-dee and dee-vee-dee. Much ee-zee-er to say than haitch-dee-dee-vee-dee.
MS doesn't support QBASIC anymore either. Hasn't stopped me from continuing to use it. Same with VB. Your apps are still going to run. You will still be able to write stuff. You won't wake up the day after they quit support and be staring at a black screen.
Huh? Has MS taken out a patent on telling fibs, and does it think MS-Watch is telling the same but without permission or licence?
Religion, Politics, Big Business.
Trouble is, we don't *have* a Justice System; we have a legal system masquerading as such.
"People generally appreciate a helpful tip" Probably something about the diference in attitude between a small company and a big corporation.
I think the real questions is: why did the BBC (who presumably make Dr. Who) run a story on it thereby telling the rest of the world so they can go looking for it???
How long would it be before the entire aircraft ran a Microsoft OS? The BSOD would take on a more profound meaning.
Non-historical accounts, i.e. fictional or perhaps fabricated events often start of in this manner: Once upon a time in a far-off land there lived a king who had a beautiful daughter etc. No names, no dates, no place names etc. By contrast, in the account of John the Baptizer turning up in advance of Jesus it says this: "In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was district ruler of Galilee, but Philip his brother was district ruler of the country of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was district ruler of Abilene, 2 in the days of chief priest Annas and of Caiaphas, God's declaration came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness." Here we have no less than seven people mentioned by name and holding public office (for which secular records would have existed), and five place names. What's more, seeing all of these people were contemporaries it narrows down the time considerably. Tiberius Caesar in particular is well known as reagrds the times of his reign.
Also, Josephus, a secular historian of those days wrote in Antiquities 18. 63-64 "At this time there was a wise man who was called Jesus, and his conduct was good, and he was known to be virtuous. And many people from among the Jews and the other nations became his disciples. Pilate condemned him to be crucified and to die. And those who had become his disciples did not abandon their loyalty to him. They reported that he had appeared to them three days after his crucifixion, and that he was alive. Accordingly they believed that he was the Messiah, concerning whom the Prophets have recounted wonders." Jesus was no friend of Josephus' so he had no agenda to push; he simply made passing mention of a real person.
==Phrack Inc.== Volume Three, Issue Thirty-one, Phile #1 of 9 Issue XXXI Index P H R A C K 3 1 05/28\90 Welcome to a new begining of Phrack Inc. Yes, Phrack is not dead. On the contrary, Phrack will and can't ever die. Phrack is more than just BTW, I had to format the above slightly so I could post it. /. bounced it with the error message
"Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
Reason: Please use fewer 'junk' characters."
Is it trying to tell us something?
"more likely that the universe is 13.7 Billion years old and was not made in 7 days with humans at the beginning in the garden of eden"
Have a look at the Bible account and you will see that it says nothing about the age of the earth or Universe. What it *does* say is that having existed for an unspecified time (billions of years is =fine=) the earth was a sort of blobby, sloppy kind of mess. God then decided it was time to prepare it for habitation so in six epochs of time loosely referred to as "days" - each perhaps many thousands of years long - things were whipped into shape. Plants, grass, trees, fish, birds, animals, people. What's more, it is described from the standpoint of a person viewing things from the earth's surface, hence the reference to stars, sun and moon appearing in the sky at a certain point as the heavy clouds, dust and gases cleared away. Obviously they were already there in space, just not yet visible to an observer on earth's surface.
The idea that everything appeared in 6 24 hour days is way off the mark, and does a dis-service to the simple account the Bible gives of things. As stated above, the globe of the earth and the rest of the physical universe was ALREADY IN EXISTENCE for yonks before these "days" occurred for the preparation of the earth for living things.
...would be to see if it could fix Michael Jackson's face. Actually, maybe they could punish vile criminals by using it to print a reproduction of his face over their's.