I am sure that if they sent him up on to top or back of enough propellant (dynamite), he probably incerated on the way to the heavens. Either that or he landed in pieces somewhere.
List of Chinese Inventions:
http://www.google.com/search?q=list%20of%20chine se %20inventions&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
So, when validated, will this diverse creature warrant a name change?
-Grimp or Gorimp -Chirilla (not quite chow-chilla nor chinchilla)
No, but seriously...
-Is there any muting of certain traits the individual species might have? For instance, would it be faster, meaner, more docile (other than eating full-grown lions, or getting it's daily supplement of a big dose of Vitamin-C (big cat), or would it lose an appetite for bananas or berries or the like?
-What would be the side-effects of cross-breeding these animals with the rambunctious monkeys in India? Would this breed be an abomination of the religious/cultural attachment? Would it survive in the land of India compared to trees and jungles? Are the monkey jails there strong enough for this near-sasquatch, or would they have to claymore the thing to put it down. (This side toward ape:)
-Would this be "transspecies" breeding? Would gee-dub-yah have a problem spending federal money on this (for weapons and DOD use, whereas he has a religious problem with abortion facilitated by federal money, even if they female's life is in danger, it appears...?)
-Does the genus or any material in the DNA allow for these animals to be crossbred? How long would it live? Would it threaten to rival the "let's clone-the-wooly-lamb" projects
Sept 5, 2001, I bought a RakGear backpack for $70. The line was subsequently bought up by Targus and then KILLED OFF. It looks like the one in the picture at this URL:
Closer, or actually it is (except mine is black with olive or deep green, not blue, trim):
http://shopper.cnet.com/RAKGEAR_DELUXE_NOTEBOOK_ BA CKPACK_BLACK_NAVY/4014-6459_9-5979339.html?q=
Model RBND05. The only thing I could recommend to Targus if they care to resurrect the bag is to flatten the internal rack's feet and widen them, and reinforce the bottom. I loaded my rack's shelves with color magazines, papers and even my BJC-85 bubblejet alternately. Over time, the weight ruined the leather on the outside, although on the inside the damage is invisible because the nylon/whatever material is resilient. But, dragging the bag or repeatedly pushing it along by foot on a bus or on another floor WILL damage it after about 2 years.
I don't like that Targus bought up my bag's style and then seems to have killed it off. It's a nice bag.
seems less "backpack-bomberish" in that they removed the lower side and back pouches that I stuck batteries and toiletries and even a surge strip into, but I don't think it will carry the weight of stuff I can carry in mine. It is WELL worth the US $70.00
Also, check epinions:
http://www.epinions.com/content_60065943172
This bag clearly shows the removable star-shaped/4-point accessory strap which could tie down a number of things...
Also, read:
http://www.worldchiropracticalliance.org/news/ra kg ear.htm
http://www.shentech.com/tarakiba.html
------------ The rest of this is from my attachment to "Do yourself a favor", at:
It seems they and SONY both benefit, as the best features of the Rack Gear bag are now labelled with those two names, but they dispensed with the book/notes rack inside. I use my rack, since it lets me organize things. Fully loaded, I've marched, ahem, walked 14 miles (from 1245 AM to 0515 AM) from Mountain View (El Camino & Castro) to San Jose (Winchester & Stevens Creek) once with some 28 to 32 pounds of laptop, accessories, paper, a 5-or 6-plug surge strip and thick 6-foot cable by Fellowes on once side, and my toiletries (toothpaste, brush, mouthwash, toilet seat covers, and other things) on the other side, and such inside it. The worst part of the walk was my shoes, but that RACK GEAR bag was not too uncomfortable. A military friend of mine said that much weight on my 150-lb body frame, in the context of that walk on concrete would more than be sufficient to meet some beyond-normal fitness tests...
Depending on my needs, I can remove some papers or a book and insert my pair of 2-inch thick add-on speakers, the audio converter wire, a small 5-port switch, two 5-foot lengths of Cat-5, 2 or 3 thinwire RJ-45-wired pieces, it's OWN power supply, in addition to the screw drivers and tools. I basically have a 35-lb computer office on my back. Why the hell? I felt I needed a laptop to show the SBA/SCORE my business plan spreadsheets in action rather than on paper. I also stuck inside the bag my Canon BJC-85, 2 or 4 spare or redundant laptop disks, the PCMCIA adaptor for them, and some floppies as well, plus several CDs/DVDs of Mandrake. Yep, talk about ROAD WARRIOR. AND, on the strap side, where the laptop is padded and against my back, there is a section to stick yet MORE paper, between the LT and the racked area of the backpack. I've only seen maybe 3 in use, one in Oregon and maybe 2 in Calif.
The DOWNside of this pack is if you use yours like I do mine, the shelf feet will, after a year of lifting/dragging on bus floors and running to chase buses, wear out the leather bot
IBM wouldn't even need that much to get a new version of SmartSuite, Linux-native out the door:
10 devs @ $45/hr x 10 hours= $4,500 per day * 90 days would be $405,000. Take it to 180 days and just double that, still under $1,000,000 (not counting payroll taxes, and other costs...)
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I for one wish enough LINUX USERS who have access to a windoze box would load up SmartSuite and USE it for a week. You'll like about 80% of it more than the stuff in OpenOffice.org. I use them both, but SmartSuite is THE, THE, THE reason I am using Win4Lin on my Mandrake-based laptop. I cannot DO word processing without WordPro. It has a kick-ass documentfeature that makes sections and divisions of embedded or linked documents. It makes OO.o's so-called "sections" look like an utter, contemptable JOKE.
As for end-user, ad-hoc, non-DBA WYSIWYG forms development for database backends, NO, I mean NO existing tool can top Lotus Approach. It is the reason I started using SmartSuite, when a former manager of mine at cc:Mail back around 1993 noticed I was trying to "misuse" a word processor. He balked at my idea of using WordPerfect to manage some 350 fictional characters and their attributes. He personally used Paradox for the beta support database, but he and his manager signed out for me SmartSuite for Windows 3.x as well as for OS/2. Of course, I used the win version, as it was more fully-featured, not to mention Approach for OS/2 wasn't available.
I WISH IBM would do for SmartSuite what Sun did for Star Office: Spin off and support a community-run version of a decent, well-liked, pervasive suite. But, for some reason (could it be internal alliances to ms stocks? IP reasons? lack of enthusiasm?) IBM simply refuses to even let THIS much happen:
- Send SmartSuite to some profiled, conscientious developers IBM can nurture to lead the later steps mentioned here; SS would be on tamper-proof laptops, with all the tools they need to work in any bootable distro of Linux/BSD in combination with Win4Lin
- Give the devs 2 weeks to look at the stuff they find compelling (most likely WordPro, Lotus Approach, and 1-2-3, but Organizer is very nice and compelling, as is Freelance...) and tell them to document what they would updated (likely based on their prior experience with Star Office, OpenOffice.org, KOffice, various other F/LOSS/OSS suites, and, err, umm, ms windows...)
-- Determine if the devs played by the rules and did not decompile SmartSuite, nor tamper with the laptop or try to debug data or code streams
-- Invite them to be "sequestered" for about 6 months with NOOOO outside contact, no tools other than what IBM provides (but it would be nice if the tools encourage conversion to or conversance with IBM's tools and not do damage to the OS Community...)
-- Place before the team of 5 or 10 devs a stripped codebase, the stripped code being the stuff IBM doesn't OWN, and doesn't like to license anymore
-- Tell the devs "replace the broken/missing/removed functionality" based on the tools we provide (hopefully these tools don't place any system or intellect demands upon the final end users)
-- After that phase is done, beta test it internally and maybe to a few users such as myself
-- expand the initial team of 5 or 10 devs to 3 teams of 5 each, with each team headed by a team leader, and all 3 teams headed by one manager
--Regression test the work, invite users to re-test it, take it gold, then release it to the community
If IBM offers a 3-year job contract to the best team that implements the most efficient and fastest submission of pre-community code, then I am SURE this project could be out before March of 2005. These hot-shot devs could be the initial startup of the SmartOpenSuite foundation, similar to the OpenOffice.org/Collab thing.
Come ON, IBM. I've been waiting for years to get SmartSuite out of emulation, not running in wine OR Win4Lin. I can't USE OO.o they way I can SmartSuite. Please stop breaking my heart by
Assess how much this laptop is worth. You can find several surplus computer stores selling 500 MHz laptops for $375, but they'll only have 6GB disks.
But, look at Fry's or CompUSA or MicroCenter and actually TOUCH, pick up, turn around and turn over those laptops and ask the sales rep where the disk access slot is. If they don't know, shame on them. You can save yourself a lot of headaches by looking at some of the Dell Latitude CP models from between 1997-1999. They are an example of owner-oriented laptops. I used to service them when I was in the IT department of a former employer, and I used them, when I transferred to Customer Support and again in Manufacturing. It was nice, because I was able to use NT 4.0 for regular work, Win98 for Half Life after work, and for SuSE (now SUSE) as a demonstrator.
In Sept 2001, I made a big mistake buying my Sony Vaio PCG-FX-215 as the disk is removed like this (turning it off, after disconnecting the AC, and after removing the battery and pressing the power button to discharge any AC on board, and AFTER grounding myself (well, usually...)):
1. Remove left-side horizontal screw which holds down the speaker/power panel atop of the laptop; slide plate to right and tilt up;
2. Disconnect the audio feed from the panel, setting panel aside, and let rooted end dangle over laptop; alternatively, leave connected and just tilt the speaker assy/lid up;
3. Remove the single vertical keyboard assembly retaining screw;
4. Use both first fingers' or pinkie fingers' nails to manipulate the keyboard data strip/cable and lift the retaining clip (it doesn't come off, but only slides up or locks down);
5. Use right middle finger to gently rock then lift up assy and disconnect data feed;
4. Remove 4 vertical screws holding the HDD cage inside the chassis;
5. Remove the HDD data bus connector... CAREFULLY! (repetition can destroy the film-thin data lines, and replacements may not be available directly to consumers!)
6. Holding assembly in-hand, remove 4 horizontal screws holding the HDD inside the disk cage, ensuring to have firm grip on cage so as to not let the disk fall out. (Alternatively, swap steps 5 & 6 to keep disk from falling, but this increases risk of ruining the flat, film data cable)
7. Swap the disks
8. Reassemble backward from steps 6 back to 1
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I recommend air-blowing the CPU cooling fan regularly, especially if your box is not using power managment and your fan runs full-tilt when the laptop os energized. This fan will collect "ghost turds" (dust balls or dust layers if it is not spinning full-tilt) and eventually you'll have to open up the laptop to clean the blades with a Q-tip just to keep the weight and resistance to a minimum. BE CAREFUL: That CPU Cooling Fan Heat Sink May Be HOTTTTT!!
With this model, or any that Sony' uses this one for, removing the CD-ROM or DVD-ROM ENCLOSURE is a pain, but not as much as with the HDD. In this case, I assume you found a Toshiba using the same manufacturer as the DVD or CD-ROM, but which Toshiba conveniently (for themselves) wraps inside a weight-adding shroud. Fortunately, for me, the shroud and the DVD & CD-ROM have the same connector commonality/parts. This is despite the Toshiba enclosure having proprietary connectors and such. I just removed the burner and the CD-ROM from their enclosures and swapped them. Then, I used a Dremel to burnish down the grey Toshiba trim piece that serves as the door.
BE VERY SURE to not push or mess up an DIP switches, since there tends to not be any description labels. You could very well wipe your BIOS, alter the BIOS/DISK communication, or alter power-related (global reasons?) settings, or you could simply disable features you have and are supposed to be using.
DON'T remove any grounding wires. You could kill your laptop, or cause problems for yourself (electrocution, if plugged to an AC outlet?)
AND, Look at the Linux Hardware lists... There are se
...May Chewy have chompoerhhea and chomp the crap out of ms' sphincter while Jar Jar slaps ms across the face with his big flappy-assed ears.
Oh, and ms... may the FARTS be with you! Better stock up on some Millennium Talcum, or medicated Tiger Balm...'cuz the RIPPER is coming to REAP you, after the REAPER comes to RIP you...
...but it DOES involve LANDMINES. I have a feeling that ms' landmines are their dollars, and they'll place them anywhere any time to cause damage to the F/LOSS credibility.
Hopefully, though, ms will backstep their assess over a few of their own mines. Might not blow a leg off, but maybe enough pocks and rips could infect the hell out of them... And, hopefully the shock and concussion will deafen them just long enough they'll be gored by their own longTHORN in their SHORThorn.
SHORT because they'll likely have to strip out features and modularize windoze like they LIED back around 1994 (when there was demand for them to remove non-task-specific features to lighten the footprint on resources...). They have YET to strip windoze down to be JUST a print server, JUST a file server, JUST a web server, JUST a desktop client, JUST a...
longTHORN.. because instead of being GORED by their own monopolist practices, they're going to suffer the THORN being their own petard.
"Among concerns are safety of uninvolved public (to ensure boosters or other launch vehicle parts don't land on the unsuspecting public)..."
Well, we'll just have to TELL them, and they won't be "unsuspecting".
I for one WELCOME an unsuspected shining booster overlord falling on my head! Better than seeing it spiraling down on me and causing my dying from a heart attack caused by useless fear with no fight and no flight.
Kewl. Thanks for the URL. It is sad that often the assistance we render is through our colored or filtered lenses.
I wonder how long the issue of patents and the issue of recovering development costs will loom while people die. I wonder if these CEOs, or, rather their investors, of the pharmaceuticals TRULY believe in some sort of Karma, good will, or a myriad of other philosophical approaches to blending technology with humanity. I think a goodly number of them are fiendishly racking up bad Karma.
Maybe it's time we evolve to the point where printing extra give-away cash/currency is not such a bad thing, if it raises morale, improves livilihoods, and makes esteem something to be a gift, right, province, and more.
Ahhh, I'm too much of an idealist or dreamer or I am living in the wrong time.
Huh? Excuse me, but as IIII understand it, that man doesn't want contraception ideas or products being discussed when federal aid money is used domestically OR abroad. By imposing his draconian, immaterial RELIGOUS thoughts or order upon a nation that never had christianity until it was COLONized, the man seems to be a MENace to that society.
By decreasing or threatening to cut desperately needed money, resources and information to a continent ravaged by a horrible things as AIDS or even HIV, the man is imposing a death sentence upon many.
If christianity were run more like a personal belief than a corporate, god-ordained corporation in a battle for life or death, then maybe ("aside from the monkey/ape/gorilla in the forest spread it") story, then maybe, just MAYbe not so many people there would have it. The same could be said for other nations/continents where AIDS and HIV are rampant, including in the US and Asian countries. Our so-called "leaders" need to keep their damned religous beliefs tempered and out of policy making. IFFF "god"/"God" exists to mete out our individual punishment, then let GOD do it at judgement day. Believers and pushers of their own god have caused enough mayhem for many generations and need to chill out. If god wants people to murder in his/her/it's name, then let the absentee landlord come here and do it personally instead of via cretenous organic proxies hell-bent on power trips! There is enough awe and wonder in nature to inspire a belief in a Diety that represents or cares for all life, but just enough despicable behavior in HUMANS to call into question how long this "shit" of murder, exploitation, gleeful execution, WMDs, misplaced distribution of Earth's resources, graft, and more must persist to "prove God cares".
Unfortunately, as long as HIV remains costly to combat, and as long as certain pharmaceuticles insist on pricing treatment at some $250 to $500 per day for a near-lethal-to-not-so/as-hal coctail mixture, then only the ultra wealthy who happen to get HIV can realistically combat it. Maybe those in trials might be lucky if their group gets the safer coctail instead of the placebo or even the weakened version of treatment.
If I'm mistaken about bush, then maybe you can point a refuting URL that says he INCREASED, WITHOUT STRINGS (his personal religious impositions, the amount of money and communication and resources.
Welcome deprecation of our malevolent overlords int our new subservient someday-but-hopefully soon-to-be has-beens (aka mshaft...)... (Lower-casing/deprecation of micro$oft's name intentional/perpetual with me...). It will be a reprieve for humanity, fairness-minded developers, and many others when F/Loss makes just 10% more headway into eroding the malignant, cancerous, overgrown hegemon named microsoft, thereby incrementally neutering that security hole producing "company". Of course, SOME governments will lament, but, those that recognize a need for and require guarantee of national soverignty, infrastructure security, and freedom to license-free modify their networks' operating systems would do well to keep on testing and deploying Linux and F/LOSS tools. Like: Yin and Yang. Like: Full Circle.
I think a great way for those who disapprove of ms and their rampage act would be to stop upper-casing their name where ever possible (Of course, professional rags receiving income from m$haft won't tow this line...and people generating internal reports at work won't be so brazen...).
I imagine though, m$haft'll pursue making it illegal to "weaken" their "trademark" by lobbying or paying web sites to correct the abominations of their name, sort of like their so-called smart features in blurb, ahem, "word" were to do. We'll just have to be so creative that no amount of expression checking will be good enough...
Now, if people writing books or articles that describe the growing and major software players would stop using magnitude or weight of market position and simply alphabetize the names, sucha as: AMD, Apple, Cisco, HP, IBM, Linux, micro$oft... That'll REALLY get them pissed off.
What the hell is wrong with the system and these skimmers? How many years have we seen redirects, and not these people want to apply a simple, age-old redirect routine to the environment of "hot spot"!
The web is the web, and even on a client-server machine, a failed log in attempt takes the user to a warning or admonition or information page.
If this application is awarded a patent status, it will yet again underscore the need to force a revamp and rebuild of the USPTO.
BIG Companies applying for patents should be FORCED to run and to pay for (non-tax-deductable!)ads in many papers, including in the tech mags/rags to guarantee MAXIMUM exposure attempt at bringing the application to light. By the time it's scurried like a cockroach into the dark crevices of the USPTO, it's often TOO LATE for an RFC. In fact, there should be a PUBLIC RFC database JUST FOR patents.
Small companies or smart individuals with no income, no warchest, no backers and certainly not corrupt patent-scooping portfolio builders should have low-cost access to accelerate their opportunities to fend off and prevail against some of these megalomaniacal pricks that do nothing more than amass "treasures" to obstruct clear, predicatable, inevitable, or necessarily non-patentable processes or ideas.
JEEZUS! Give decent inventors or implementors a BREAK!
of an operating system seems to be growing tusks and attacking its own.
I think "Food not bombs" can be amended for North Korea to read:
"(Food) Bites not (Attack) Bytes"
But, what the world needs to look out for is whether China truly has the resolve to not knuckle under to microstoff (lower-casing/deprecation of ms' name intentional/perpetual with me). I wonder how much the Chinese ms VP gets paid if China lets the dangerous back-door-likely-enabled foreigner windoze snake its way through the soverign infrastructure of China...
If N. Korea wants to join the "big boys", they should start a space program. First, send small animals up. Next, prisoners, in exchange for clemency. Next, full-fledged KoroNauts, probably from a pool of pilots. Once they've acted as a proxy for other nations wanting live human research (without the tarnish of being public backers) N. Korea could have a schload of cash in hand. Hopefully, they'll buy food with it.
But, what I'd REALLY like to see --but probably won't happen in the next 50 years -- is for N & S Korea to reunify. If China doesn't have too much of a problem, and if the US can be forced off the peninsula by popular vote, then it could happen --eventually.
However, what might smooth the process is if they don't engage in the US-bullshit-styled bicameral party where votes are stolen and the voting process is, at best, illusory. What the Koreas/Koreans can do is this:
First term of unification peninsular leadership
-- NK Premier/President sends the NK VP to be VP of SK.
-- SK President sends the SK VP to be VP of NK.
Replace BOTH the NK and SK presidents, since the NK Pres will likely be too unsavory to lead, and the North will undoubtedly balk at the sitting SK Pres leading.
--Have NK and SK both select a palatable president, and call it provisional, but have the two VPs administratively run things domestically while the provisional presidents make the global circuit to get food and construction aid to the North.
--The North and South, reunified, could consider scrapping their current parties and renaming them --purely in the name of accelerating the Reunification. They could remove references to "democracy" or the like that the North regime/administration officials would find heart-stopping.
In Term Two:
--Re-elect the current P & VP -- if there is no public lack of confidence. Hold off replacement elections for the third term
-- Swap the North and South provisional VPs' duties, both still as VPs.
-- 6 months into the (hopefully smoother) admnistration, promote them to twin sitting presidents. After all, as delicate as this Reunification will be, dual-accountability and public trust/confidence would be paramount, compared to what we have going on here in the US (where' our votes are bought and paid by corporations, where national voting is reduced to a "feel-good" excercise, and where some consider the words theocracy, plutocracy and democracy to have less emphasis on democracy, since we're (the masses) so wound up working to pay bills or keep up appearances and where we're disillusioned by being fed lies from sitting officials who in all likely hood just want us to shut up and leave them alone.
Third Term:
-- Remove US military set pieces and dismantle the bases
-- Reconfigure the bases for commercial work, so that starving Koreans still in the north can get travel permission ahem, travel fare and arrangements to do manufacturing and piece work on the Tech Parks at the former bases
Global Duties and Responsibilities:
Early-Stage Actions:
Nations claiming to be interested in PEACE need to:
-- dismantle their foreign-shore-based military set pieces or reduce them to token presences to alleviate domestic displeasure
-- Strip resources from NATO, ASEAN, SEATO, UN, and other GOs and NGOs and the various former war-fighting nations and create an international, multi-cultural, global naval police, sans the "military "destroyer" class connotations
-- War-footing nations with their floating set pieces MUST see their flag-waving navies deprecated to nothing more than "own-shore coastal patrol units" (In the case of the US, the USCG might get a promotion, and if this were treated like a rough election, the USN would lose a cycle and maybe fall under the DHLS, where the USCG would get from under foot and start getting some real money, real missions, and duties to escort merchants or high-value products, since the USN will likely bitch at being dep
------------ in case you care to look at is a URL from some overseas source... -------
http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=1& id =314283
Only a blurb is there, but it is just another event/incident indicator.
"I didn't determine" OBVIOUSLY means (in the context of all the URLs I dredged up) that I didn't BOTHER to dig those up, and if you'd FOLLOWED them, you'd see there wasn't much information and there was no point in elaborating on those, except to list them as possibly interesting for future follow-up.
Of course microshaft's little toy will never simulage G-forces, touch-downs, turbulence, etc, even if hooked up to woofer-equipped, swinging, throbbing chairs. Where did I say ms-simware MAKES a pilot? I related that bit of information only because the USN was thrilled that incoming pilot trainees who HAD used ms flight simulator had better mechanical interaction with their test equipment AND the trainer craft once in the sky. I never said ms stuff would train or prepare a person for flight. (On the other hand, it seems to me some nefarios/bandidos did some sim time and (maybe some actual flight hours) but managed to take over and keep aloft 4 planes, 3 of which reflected SOME level of proficiency in keeping planes aloft...until KABOOM!)
So WHAT you "...have obviously read and understood far more NTSB reports than..."? Big friggin' deal. The point here is what you take away from it. Obviously, you think I am someone unwilling to fly out of fear of the thing crashing. Obviously, you didn't read or comprehend the bits where I ACTUALLY LIKE the turbulence, the little g-force and banks/yaws on take-off... I am NOT afraid of dying, I just care about HOW and whether it is unfairly premature (say, hit by a bus or murdered intentionally or accidentally vs dying from long bout with cancer or some degenerative disease...)
"But if you want to keep burying yourself in ridiculous, idiotic fear, be my guest." Keep burying yourself in/with ad-hominem attacks...
You assume my information comes from ANG types. What makes you so certain I did not communicate in the past and present with actual power plant certified military or civilian types? I don't give a rat's ass for cover-up types, so I have no vested interest in playing cutesy-happy with an industry rife with information suppression and the will to bend rules, engage in risky practices to please investors, and gamble with odds soley based on "well it never happened before...". I'll fly, I just don't care to do it OFTEN, nor do I care to reward selfish or greedy airline CEOs for taking shortcuts (Yep, I DARE say 9/11 would NOT have happened if reinforced doors were on all the planes once a few nuts tried to hijack El-Al. Dick around with them and you get blown away. But noooo, 'merikun airline CEOs go on statistics, insurance costs, and other escape routes. "It never happened before and was statistically unlikely" was a BULLSHIT, farce, escapist excuse, when put into context with 'merika's policies, practices, and history. We're the biggest target of some of the whackiest people on Earth, and even the FBI, State, CIA, and others WARNED Congress/Senate and others OVER A DECADE ago, and the airlines did NOTHING, even when since 1994 crashed airliners initially were rumored to have been hijacked, and yet NO new planes were fitted and no older ones retrofitted with security doors strong enough to deter takeoves. Moreover, on at least 1, maybe 2, the pilots surrendered the cockpits to save ONE life when MORE were at stake. So, that was REAL pilot error.
"I have, and I've dug way deeper than you. It takes more than a passing conversation with some National Guard dimwit, a few Google searches, and a total misunderstanding of the NTSB's reporting process to convince me that flying is unsafe."
I never said flying is 100 percent "unsafe!" Your twisted sentence makes it seem as if I am saying it's unsafe, maybe to make it taboo to fly. I like LOTS of planes. I just to like all the glowi
What would be REALLY neat is if this Internet-based telescope could be time-shared for ALL Internet-connected persons. This would enable just about anyone to train the synthetic types of ground-based, distributed telescopes on any object detectable in the heavens.
It also would mean that scientists and astronomers, even military planners or astrology fans, could get as much information as they can, but it would be, in real-time, sharable and traceable. Then, a discovery made by one would literally be instantaneously shared without the risk of a loner dying or holding back on information.
On the other hand, it means that anyone "discovering" (really just detecting) the next asteroid or cometary trail to assail us would be squelched by one or more governments. A better thing would be to have live, synthetic, public tracking and explanation of objects. This might dramatically reduce the "hysteria" level if a REAL disaster becomes close at hand.
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I am sure that if they sent him up on to top or back of enough propellant (dynamite), he probably incerated on the way to the heavens. Either that or he landed in pieces somewhere.
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List of Chinese Inventions:
http://www.google.com/search?q=list%20of%20chin
So, when validated, will this diverse creature warrant a name change?
-Grimp or Gorimp
-Chirilla (not quite chow-chilla nor chinchilla)
No, but seriously...
-Is there any muting of certain traits the individual species might have? For instance, would it be faster, meaner, more docile (other than eating full-grown lions, or getting it's daily supplement of a big dose of Vitamin-C (big cat), or would it lose an appetite for bananas or berries or the like?
-What would be the side-effects of cross-breeding these animals with the rambunctious monkeys in India? Would this breed be an abomination of the religious/cultural attachment? Would it survive in the land of India compared to trees and jungles? Are the monkey jails there strong enough for this near-sasquatch, or would they have to claymore the thing to put it down. (This side toward ape:)
-Would this be "transspecies" breeding? Would gee-dub-yah have a problem spending federal money on this (for weapons and DOD use, whereas he has a religious problem with abortion facilitated by federal money, even if they female's life is in danger, it appears...?)
-Does the genus or any material in the DNA allow for these animals to be crossbred? How long would it live? Would it threaten to rival the "let's clone-the-wooly-lamb" projects
-operate an "Etch-a-Sketch"?
-paddle in a canoe
-do the samba
-remove hanging chads
Who is it who said:
"Given an infinite number of typewriters and an infinite number of chimpanzies, eventually you will get 'War and Peace'"?
I guess the "fully-grown" lion, figuratively AND literally, is going "Ape-Shit", for:
1. being threatened
2. being eaten
THAT is really about the ape getting it's "lion's share" of the food chain.
Sept 5, 2001, I bought a RakGear backpack for $70. The line was subsequently bought up by Targus and then KILLED OFF. It looks like the one in the picture at this URL:
/rakdeluxe.htm
http://www.login.co.th/cgi-bin/cs?asset=21&id= 747
Closer, or actually it is (except mine is black with olive or deep green, not blue, trim):
http://shopper.cnet.com/RAKGEAR_DELUXE_NOTEBOOK_ BA CKPACK_BLACK_NAVY/4014-6459_9-5979339.html?q=
Model RBND05. The only thing I could recommend to Targus if they care to resurrect the bag is to flatten the internal rack's feet and widen them, and reinforce the bottom. I loaded my rack's shelves with color magazines, papers and even my BJC-85 bubblejet alternately. Over time, the weight ruined the leather on the outside, although on the inside the damage is invisible because the nylon/whatever material is resilient. But, dragging the bag or repeatedly pushing it along by foot on a bus or on another floor WILL damage it after about 2 years.
I don't like that Targus bought up my bag's style and then seems to have killed it off. It's a nice bag.
This bag:
http://homeworktips.about.com/cs/productreviews/ gr
seems less "backpack-bomberish" in that they removed the lower side and back pouches that I stuck batteries and toiletries and even a surge strip into, but I don't think it will carry the weight of stuff I can carry in mine. It is WELL worth the US $70.00
Also, check epinions:
http://www.epinions.com/content_60065943172
This bag clearly shows the removable star-shaped/4-point accessory strap which could tie down a number of things...
Also, read:
http://www.worldchiropracticalliance.org/news/ra kg ear.htm
http://www.shentech.com/tarakiba.html
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The rest of this is from my attachment to "Do yourself a favor", at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=124854&cid=1 04 72989
It seems they and SONY both benefit, as the best features of the Rack Gear bag are now labelled with those two names, but they dispensed with the book/notes rack inside. I use my rack, since it lets me organize things. Fully loaded, I've marched, ahem, walked 14 miles (from 1245 AM to 0515 AM) from Mountain View (El Camino & Castro) to San Jose (Winchester & Stevens Creek) once with some 28 to 32 pounds of laptop, accessories, paper, a 5-or 6-plug surge strip and thick 6-foot cable by Fellowes on once side, and my toiletries (toothpaste, brush, mouthwash, toilet seat covers, and other things) on the other side, and such inside it. The worst part of the walk was my shoes, but that RACK GEAR bag was not too uncomfortable. A military friend of mine said that much weight on my 150-lb body frame, in the context of that walk on concrete would more than be sufficient to meet some beyond-normal fitness tests...
Depending on my needs, I can remove some papers or a book and insert my pair of 2-inch thick add-on speakers, the audio converter wire, a small 5-port switch, two 5-foot lengths of Cat-5, 2 or 3 thinwire RJ-45-wired pieces, it's OWN power supply, in addition to the screw drivers and tools. I basically have a 35-lb computer office on my back. Why the hell? I felt I needed a laptop to show the SBA/SCORE my business plan spreadsheets in action rather than on paper. I also stuck inside the bag my Canon BJC-85, 2 or 4 spare or redundant laptop disks, the PCMCIA adaptor for them, and some floppies as well, plus several CDs/DVDs of Mandrake. Yep, talk about ROAD WARRIOR. AND, on the strap side, where the laptop is padded and against my back, there is a section to stick yet MORE paper, between the LT and the racked area of the backpack. I've only seen maybe 3 in use, one in Oregon and maybe 2 in Calif.
The DOWNside of this pack is if you use yours like I do mine, the shelf feet will, after a year of lifting/dragging on bus floors and running to chase buses, wear out the leather bot
IBM wouldn't even need that much to get a new version of SmartSuite, Linux-native out the door:
10 devs @ $45/hr x 10 hours= $4,500 per day * 90 days would be $405,000. Take it to 180 days and just double that, still under $1,000,000 (not counting payroll taxes, and other costs...)
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I for one wish enough LINUX USERS who have access to a windoze box would load up SmartSuite and USE it for a week. You'll like about 80% of it more than the stuff in OpenOffice.org. I use them both, but SmartSuite is THE, THE, THE reason I am using Win4Lin on my Mandrake-based laptop. I cannot DO word processing without WordPro. It has a kick-ass documentfeature that makes sections and divisions of embedded or linked documents. It makes OO.o's so-called "sections" look like an utter, contemptable JOKE.
As for end-user, ad-hoc, non-DBA WYSIWYG forms development for database backends, NO, I mean NO existing tool can top Lotus Approach. It is the reason I started using SmartSuite, when a former manager of mine at cc:Mail back around 1993 noticed I was trying to "misuse" a word processor. He balked at my idea of using WordPerfect to manage some 350 fictional characters and their attributes. He personally used Paradox for the beta support database, but he and his manager signed out for me SmartSuite for Windows 3.x as well as for OS/2. Of course, I used the win version, as it was more fully-featured, not to mention Approach for OS/2 wasn't available.
I WISH IBM would do for SmartSuite what Sun did for Star Office: Spin off and support a community-run version of a decent, well-liked, pervasive suite. But, for some reason (could it be internal alliances to ms stocks? IP reasons? lack of enthusiasm?) IBM simply refuses to even let THIS much happen:
- Send SmartSuite to some profiled, conscientious developers IBM can nurture to lead the later steps mentioned here; SS would be on tamper-proof laptops, with all the tools they need to work in any bootable distro of Linux/BSD in combination with Win4Lin
- Give the devs 2 weeks to look at the stuff they find compelling (most likely WordPro, Lotus Approach, and 1-2-3, but Organizer is very nice and compelling, as is Freelance...) and tell them to document what they would updated (likely based on their prior experience with Star Office, OpenOffice.org, KOffice, various other F/LOSS/OSS suites, and, err, umm, ms windows...)
-- Determine if the devs played by the rules and did not decompile SmartSuite, nor tamper with the laptop or try to debug data or code streams
-- Invite them to be "sequestered" for about 6 months with NOOOO outside contact, no tools other than what IBM provides (but it would be nice if the tools encourage conversion to or conversance with IBM's tools and not do damage to the OS Community...)
-- Place before the team of 5 or 10 devs a stripped codebase, the stripped code being the stuff IBM doesn't OWN, and doesn't like to license anymore
-- Tell the devs "replace the broken/missing/removed functionality" based on the tools we provide (hopefully these tools don't place any system or intellect demands upon the final end users)
-- After that phase is done, beta test it internally and maybe to a few users such as myself
-- expand the initial team of 5 or 10 devs to 3 teams of 5 each, with each team headed by a team leader, and all 3 teams headed by one manager
--Regression test the work, invite users to re-test it, take it gold, then release it to the community
If IBM offers a 3-year job contract to the best team that implements the most efficient and fastest submission of pre-community code, then I am SURE this project could be out before March of 2005. These hot-shot devs could be the initial startup of the SmartOpenSuite foundation, similar to the OpenOffice.org/Collab thing.
Come ON, IBM. I've been waiting for years to get SmartSuite out of emulation, not running in wine OR Win4Lin. I can't USE OO.o they way I can SmartSuite. Please stop breaking my heart by
Assess how much this laptop is worth. You can find several surplus computer stores selling 500 MHz laptops for $375, but they'll only have 6GB disks.
But, look at Fry's or CompUSA or MicroCenter and actually TOUCH, pick up, turn around and turn over those laptops and ask the sales rep where the disk access slot is. If they don't know, shame on them. You can save yourself a lot of headaches by looking at some of the Dell Latitude CP models from between 1997-1999. They are an example of owner-oriented laptops. I used to service them when I was in the IT department of a former employer, and I used them, when I transferred to Customer Support and again in Manufacturing. It was nice, because I was able to use NT 4.0 for regular work, Win98 for Half Life after work, and for SuSE (now SUSE) as a demonstrator.
In Sept 2001, I made a big mistake buying my Sony Vaio PCG-FX-215 as the disk is removed like this (turning it off, after disconnecting the AC, and after removing the battery and pressing the power button to discharge any AC on board, and AFTER grounding myself (well, usually...)):
1. Remove left-side horizontal screw which holds down the speaker/power panel atop of the laptop; slide plate to right and tilt up;
2. Disconnect the audio feed from the panel, setting panel aside, and let rooted end dangle over laptop; alternatively, leave connected and just tilt the speaker assy/lid up;
3. Remove the single vertical keyboard assembly retaining screw;
4. Use both first fingers' or pinkie fingers' nails to manipulate the keyboard data strip/cable and lift the retaining clip (it doesn't come off, but only slides up or locks down);
5. Use right middle finger to gently rock then lift up assy and disconnect data feed;
4. Remove 4 vertical screws holding the HDD cage inside the chassis;
5. Remove the HDD data bus connector... CAREFULLY! (repetition can destroy the film-thin data lines, and replacements may not be available directly to consumers!)
6. Holding assembly in-hand, remove 4 horizontal screws holding the HDD inside the disk cage, ensuring to have firm grip on cage so as to not let the disk fall out. (Alternatively, swap steps 5 & 6 to keep disk from falling, but this increases risk of ruining the flat, film data cable)
7. Swap the disks
8. Reassemble backward from steps 6 back to 1
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I recommend air-blowing the CPU cooling fan regularly, especially if your box is not using power managment and your fan runs full-tilt when the laptop os energized. This fan will collect "ghost turds" (dust balls or dust layers if it is not spinning full-tilt) and eventually you'll have to open up the laptop to clean the blades with a Q-tip just to keep the weight and resistance to a minimum. BE CAREFUL: That CPU Cooling Fan Heat Sink May Be HOTTTTT!!
With this model, or any that Sony' uses this one for, removing the CD-ROM or DVD-ROM ENCLOSURE is a pain, but not as much as with the HDD. In this case, I assume you found a Toshiba using the same manufacturer as the DVD or CD-ROM, but which Toshiba conveniently (for themselves) wraps inside a weight-adding shroud. Fortunately, for me, the shroud and the DVD & CD-ROM have the same connector commonality/parts. This is despite the Toshiba enclosure having proprietary connectors and such. I just removed the burner and the CD-ROM from their enclosures and swapped them. Then, I used a Dremel to burnish down the grey Toshiba trim piece that serves as the door.
BE VERY SURE to not push or mess up an DIP switches, since there tends to not be any description labels. You could very well wipe your BIOS, alter the BIOS/DISK communication, or alter power-related (global reasons?) settings, or you could simply disable features you have and are supposed to be using.
DON'T remove any grounding wires. You could kill your laptop, or cause problems for yourself (electrocution, if plugged to an AC outlet?)
AND, Look at the Linux Hardware lists... There are se
convolve, absolve, devolve, involve, revolve...
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salve, calve, halve, valve...
...May Chewy have chompoerhhea and chomp the crap out of ms' sphincter while Jar Jar slaps ms across the face with his big flappy-assed ears.
Oh, and ms... may the FARTS be with you! Better stock up on some Millennium Talcum, or medicated Tiger Balm...'cuz the RIPPER is coming to REAP you, after the REAPER comes to RIP you...
...but it DOES involve LANDMINES. I have a feeling that ms' landmines are their dollars, and they'll place them anywhere any time to cause damage to the F/LOSS credibility.
Hopefully, though, ms will backstep their assess over a few of their own mines. Might not blow a leg off, but maybe enough pocks and rips could infect the hell out of them... And, hopefully the shock and concussion will deafen them just long enough they'll be gored by their own longTHORN in their SHORThorn.
David Syes
SHORThorn or longTHORN?
SHORT because they'll likely have to strip out features and modularize windoze like they LIED back around 1994 (when there was demand for them to remove non-task-specific features to lighten the footprint on resources...). They have YET to strip windoze down to be JUST a print server, JUST a file server, JUST a web server, JUST a desktop client, JUST a...
longTHORN.. because instead of being GORED by their own monopolist practices, they're going to suffer the THORN being their own petard.
"Among concerns are safety of uninvolved public (to ensure boosters or other launch vehicle parts don't land on the unsuspecting public)..."
Well, we'll just have to TELL them, and they won't be "unsuspecting".
I for one WELCOME an unsuspected shining booster overlord falling on my head! Better than seeing it spiraling down on me and causing my dying from a heart attack caused by useless fear with no fight and no flight.
If we want flight, we "have to fight".
Fight congress and support progress.
...the opposite of PROgress..."
Kewl. Thanks for the URL. It is sad that often the assistance we render is through our colored or filtered lenses.
I wonder how long the issue of patents and the issue of recovering development costs will loom while people die. I wonder if these CEOs, or, rather their investors, of the pharmaceuticals TRULY believe in some sort of Karma, good will, or a myriad of other philosophical approaches to blending technology with humanity. I think a goodly number of them are fiendishly racking up bad Karma.
Maybe it's time we evolve to the point where printing extra give-away cash/currency is not such a bad thing, if it raises morale, improves livilihoods, and makes esteem something to be a gift, right, province, and more.
Ahhh, I'm too much of an idealist or dreamer or I am living in the wrong time.
Huh? Excuse me, but as IIII understand it, that man doesn't want contraception ideas or products being discussed when federal aid money is used domestically OR abroad. By imposing his draconian, immaterial RELIGOUS thoughts or order upon a nation that never had christianity until it was COLONized, the man seems to be a MENace to that society.
By decreasing or threatening to cut desperately needed money, resources and information to a continent ravaged by a horrible things as AIDS or even HIV, the man is imposing a death sentence upon many.
If christianity were run more like a personal belief than a corporate, god-ordained corporation in a battle for life or death, then maybe ("aside from the monkey/ape/gorilla in the forest spread it") story, then maybe, just MAYbe not so many people there would have it. The same could be said for other nations/continents where AIDS and HIV are rampant, including in the US and Asian countries. Our so-called "leaders" need to keep their damned religous beliefs tempered and out of policy making. IFFF "god"/"God" exists to mete out our individual punishment, then let GOD do it at judgement day. Believers and pushers of their own god have caused enough mayhem for many generations and need to chill out. If god wants people to murder in his/her/it's name, then let the absentee landlord come here and do it personally instead of via cretenous organic proxies hell-bent on power trips! There is enough awe and wonder in nature to inspire a belief in a Diety that represents or cares for all life, but just enough despicable behavior in HUMANS to call into question how long this "shit" of murder, exploitation, gleeful execution, WMDs, misplaced distribution of Earth's resources, graft, and more must persist to "prove God cares".
Unfortunately, as long as HIV remains costly to combat, and as long as certain pharmaceuticles insist on pricing treatment at some $250 to $500 per day for a near-lethal-to-not-so/as-hal coctail mixture, then only the ultra wealthy who happen to get HIV can realistically combat it. Maybe those in trials might be lucky if their group gets the safer coctail instead of the placebo or even the weakened version of treatment.
If I'm mistaken about bush, then maybe you can point a refuting URL that says he INCREASED, WITHOUT STRINGS (his personal religious impositions, the amount of money and communication and resources.
OK, Dr. Lappenstein. Scream less and rejoice a bit quiter. Then, your wife won't be so crazy when you resurrect more laptops, heheh
Welcome deprecation of our malevolent overlords int our new subservient someday-but-hopefully soon-to-be has-beens (aka mshaft...)... (Lower-casing/deprecation of micro$oft's name intentional/perpetual with me...). It will be a reprieve for humanity, fairness-minded developers, and many others when F/Loss makes just 10% more headway into eroding the malignant, cancerous, overgrown hegemon named microsoft, thereby incrementally neutering that security hole producing "company". Of course, SOME governments will lament, but, those that recognize a need for and require guarantee of national soverignty, infrastructure security, and freedom to license-free modify their networks' operating systems would do well to keep on testing and deploying Linux and F/LOSS tools. Like: Yin and Yang. Like: Full Circle.
I think a great way for those who disapprove of ms and their rampage act would be to stop upper-casing their name where ever possible (Of course, professional rags receiving income from m$haft won't tow this line...and people generating internal reports at work won't be so brazen...).
I imagine though, m$haft'll pursue making it illegal to "weaken" their "trademark" by lobbying or paying web sites to correct the abominations of their name, sort of like their so-called smart features in blurb, ahem, "word" were to do. We'll just have to be so creative that no amount of expression checking will be good enough...
Now, if people writing books or articles that describe the growing and major software players would stop using magnitude or weight of market position and simply alphabetize the names, sucha as: AMD, Apple, Cisco, HP, IBM, Linux, micro$oft... That'll REALLY get them pissed off.
David Syes
Howard is Australian. Or, do you mean Clint Howard/aka Commander Balok of the Federation Starship Fesarius? Drinking "tranya" lateley?
patent collection attempt.
What the hell is wrong with the system and these skimmers? How many years have we seen redirects, and not these people want to apply a simple, age-old redirect routine to the environment of "hot spot"!
The web is the web, and even on a client-server machine, a failed log in attempt takes the user to a warning or admonition or information page.
If this application is awarded a patent status, it will yet again underscore the need to force a revamp and rebuild of the USPTO.
BIG Companies applying for patents should be FORCED to run and to pay for (non-tax-deductable!)ads in many papers, including in the tech mags/rags to guarantee MAXIMUM exposure attempt at bringing the application to light. By the time it's scurried like a cockroach into the dark crevices of the USPTO, it's often TOO LATE for an RFC. In fact, there should be a PUBLIC RFC database JUST FOR patents.
Small companies or smart individuals with no income, no warchest, no backers and certainly not corrupt patent-scooping portfolio builders should have low-cost access to accelerate their opportunities to fend off and prevail against some of these megalomaniacal pricks that do nothing more than amass "treasures" to obstruct clear, predicatable, inevitable, or necessarily non-patentable processes or ideas.
JEEZUS! Give decent inventors or implementors a BREAK!
David Syes
"THE HEXED BOX!" Now, we've got another reason to refer to it as THE HEXED BOX
What would be even funnier is if the forensics work shows the attacking computers are ms-windoze based.
t ml/
SHORThorn or longTHORN hasn't even arrived yet, and that gargantuan, lumbering manatee
( http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/5960/manatee.h
or
http://www.manateeworld.net./
(Does anyone know if Tux can outswim a manatee?))
of an operating system seems to be growing tusks and attacking its own.
I think "Food not bombs" can be amended for North Korea to read:
"(Food) Bites not (Attack) Bytes"
But, what the world needs to look out for is whether China truly has the resolve to not knuckle under to microstoff (lower-casing/deprecation of ms' name intentional/perpetual with me). I wonder how much the Chinese ms VP gets paid if China lets the dangerous back-door-likely-enabled foreigner windoze snake its way through the soverign infrastructure of China...
If N. Korea wants to join the "big boys", they should start a space program. First, send small animals up. Next, prisoners, in exchange for clemency. Next, full-fledged KoroNauts, probably from a pool of pilots. Once they've acted as a proxy for other nations wanting live human research (without the tarnish of being public backers) N. Korea could have a schload of cash in hand. Hopefully, they'll buy food with it.
But, what I'd REALLY like to see --but probably won't happen in the next 50 years -- is for N & S Korea to reunify. If China doesn't have too much of a problem, and if the US can be forced off the peninsula by popular vote, then it could happen --eventually.
However, what might smooth the process is if they don't engage in the US-bullshit-styled bicameral party where votes are stolen and the voting process is, at best, illusory. What the Koreas/Koreans can do is this:
First term of unification peninsular leadership
-- NK Premier/President sends the NK VP to be VP of SK.
-- SK President sends the SK VP to be VP of NK.
Replace BOTH the NK and SK presidents, since the NK Pres will likely be too unsavory to lead, and the North will undoubtedly balk at the sitting SK Pres leading.
--Have NK and SK both select a palatable president, and call it provisional, but have the two VPs administratively run things domestically while the provisional presidents make the global circuit to get food and construction aid to the North.
--The North and South, reunified, could consider scrapping their current parties and renaming them --purely in the name of accelerating the Reunification. They could remove references to "democracy" or the like that the North regime/administration officials would find heart-stopping.
In Term Two:
--Re-elect the current P & VP -- if there is no public lack of confidence. Hold off replacement elections for the third term
-- Swap the North and South provisional VPs' duties, both still as VPs.
-- 6 months into the (hopefully smoother) admnistration, promote them to twin sitting presidents. After all, as delicate as this Reunification will be, dual-accountability and public trust/confidence would be paramount, compared to what we have going on here in the US (where' our votes are bought and paid by corporations, where national voting is reduced to a "feel-good" excercise, and where some consider the words theocracy, plutocracy and democracy to have less emphasis on democracy, since we're (the masses) so wound up working to pay bills or keep up appearances and where we're disillusioned by being fed lies from sitting officials who in all likely hood just want us to shut up and leave them alone.
Third Term:
-- Remove US military set pieces and dismantle the bases
-- Reconfigure the bases for commercial work, so that starving Koreans still in the north can get travel permission ahem, travel fare and arrangements to do manufacturing and piece work on the Tech Parks at the former bases
Global Duties and Responsibilities:
Early-Stage Actions:
Nations claiming to be interested in PEACE need to:
-- dismantle their foreign-shore-based military set pieces or reduce them to token presences to alleviate domestic displeasure
-- Strip resources from NATO, ASEAN, SEATO, UN, and other GOs and NGOs and the various former war-fighting nations and create an international, multi-cultural, global naval police, sans the "military "destroyer" class connotations
-- War-footing nations with their floating set pieces MUST see their flag-waving navies deprecated to nothing more than "own-shore coastal patrol units" (In the case of the US, the USCG might get a promotion, and if this were treated like a rough election, the USN would lose a cycle and maybe fall under the DHLS, where the USCG would get from under foot and start getting some real money, real missions, and duties to escort merchants or high-value products, since the USN will likely bitch at being dep
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http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=1& id =314283
Only a blurb is there, but it is just another event/incident indicator.
"I didn't determine" OBVIOUSLY means (in the context of all the URLs I dredged up) that I didn't BOTHER to dig those up, and if you'd FOLLOWED them, you'd see there wasn't much information and there was no point in elaborating on those, except to list them as possibly interesting for future follow-up.
Of course microshaft's little toy will never simulage G-forces, touch-downs, turbulence, etc, even if hooked up to woofer-equipped, swinging, throbbing chairs. Where did I say ms-simware MAKES a pilot? I related that bit of information only because the USN was thrilled that incoming pilot trainees who HAD used ms flight simulator had better mechanical interaction with their test equipment AND the trainer craft once in the sky. I never said ms stuff would train or prepare a person for flight. (On the other hand, it seems to me some nefarios/bandidos did some sim time and (maybe some actual flight hours) but managed to take over and keep aloft 4 planes, 3 of which reflected SOME level of proficiency in keeping planes aloft...until KABOOM!)
So WHAT you "...have obviously read and understood far more NTSB reports than..."? Big friggin' deal. The point here is what you take away from it. Obviously, you think I am someone unwilling to fly out of fear of the thing crashing. Obviously, you didn't read or comprehend the bits where I ACTUALLY LIKE the turbulence, the little g-force and banks/yaws on take-off... I am NOT afraid of dying, I just care about HOW and whether it is unfairly premature (say, hit by a bus or murdered intentionally or accidentally vs dying from long bout with cancer or some degenerative disease...)
"But if you want to keep burying yourself in ridiculous, idiotic fear, be my guest." Keep burying yourself in/with ad-hominem attacks...
You assume my information comes from ANG types. What makes you so certain I did not communicate in the past and present with actual power plant certified military or civilian types? I don't give a rat's ass for cover-up types, so I have no vested interest in playing cutesy-happy with an industry rife with information suppression and the will to bend rules, engage in risky practices to please investors, and gamble with odds soley based on "well it never happened before...". I'll fly, I just don't care to do it OFTEN, nor do I care to reward selfish or greedy airline CEOs for taking shortcuts (Yep, I DARE say 9/11 would NOT have happened if reinforced doors were on all the planes once a few nuts tried to hijack El-Al. Dick around with them and you get blown away. But noooo, 'merikun airline CEOs go on statistics, insurance costs, and other escape routes. "It never happened before and was statistically unlikely" was a BULLSHIT, farce, escapist excuse, when put into context with 'merika's policies, practices, and history. We're the biggest target of some of the whackiest people on Earth, and even the FBI, State, CIA, and others WARNED Congress/Senate and others OVER A DECADE ago, and the airlines did NOTHING, even when since 1994 crashed airliners initially were rumored to have been hijacked, and yet NO new planes were fitted and no older ones retrofitted with security doors strong enough to deter takeoves. Moreover, on at least 1, maybe 2, the pilots surrendered the cockpits to save ONE life when MORE were at stake. So, that was REAL pilot error.
"I have, and I've dug way deeper than you. It takes more than a passing conversation with some National Guard dimwit, a few Google searches, and a total misunderstanding of the NTSB's reporting process to convince me that flying is unsafe."
I never said flying is 100 percent "unsafe!" Your twisted sentence makes it seem as if I am saying it's unsafe, maybe to make it taboo to fly. I like LOTS of planes. I just to like all the glowi
Humbled? Or hobbled?
What would be REALLY neat is if this Internet-based telescope could be time-shared for ALL Internet-connected persons. This would enable just about anyone to train the synthetic types of ground-based, distributed telescopes on any object detectable in the heavens.
It also would mean that scientists and astronomers, even military planners or astrology fans, could get as much information as they can, but it would be, in real-time, sharable and traceable. Then, a discovery made by one would literally be instantaneously shared without the risk of a loner dying or holding back on information.
On the other hand, it means that anyone "discovering" (really just detecting) the next asteroid or cometary trail to assail us would be squelched by one or more governments. A better thing would be to have live, synthetic, public tracking and explanation of objects. This might dramatically reduce the "hysteria" level if a REAL disaster becomes close at hand.
They landed on the MARKED side of the dune.
It was a windy day in Arizona when that flag waved on its own, hehehehe....