Pardon me for being old tech, but you can have a similar experience at your local amusement park for a lot less money plus you have a shot at picking up chicks.
If you feel the need to add to the thrill, consider that the tons of steel in your average amusement ride is assembled by minimum wage carnies - composed of felons, degenerates and illiterates - and held together with cotter-keys.
Your cowardice and/or opinions do not change your societal obligations, and failing to uphold those obligations is perhaps one of the most dis-honorable things a person can do.
While I agree with you, what risk is there for draft evaders given Carter's precedent setting pardon for Vietnam era draft evaders?
From the WSJ:"The Insult of Carter's Mass Pardon"
Letters to the Editor February 23, 2001
(A copy can be found here) While the Carter presidency may have handled cases of individual presidential pardons with great care, Mr. Carter's first official act as president was to pardon, en masse, all those who had been or could be charged with draft evasion during the Vietnam era. Motivated by the ever-present desire of American politicians to "heal the wounds" of the Vietnam War, and beyond doubt manipulated by the army of antiwar McGovernites who had seized control of the Democratic Party, Mr. Carter's gesture had the symbolic effect of elevating everyone who had opposed the Vietnam War to the level of moral purist, and by implication insulting those who often had struggled just as deeply with the moral dimensions of the war and had decided, often at great sacrifice, to honor the laws of their country and serve.
It would be interesting to see a list of books children are required to read, around the country and around the world.
My 6th grade class was required to read The Scarlet Letter. I still question adultery as an appropriate theme for grade schoolers. If it was supposed to impart a moral lesson, it missed its' mark as we all knew the teacher was having an affair with the gym instructor. It shouldn't have been banned, but should it have been required?
DVD comentaries are peppered with "We had to take this out." "We had to change that to show in England." "For some reason we were required to do abc while xyz was perfectly ok." Sounds a lot like prior restraint, though film makers do it "voluntarily" to avoid economic suicide.
I can't watch any film I like if it is not allowed to be made in the first place.
I've never seen a rating system for books - thank God. Some popular music is dissed for sex, obscenity, etc., but a rating system? Why are movies special?
Let the film makers make the flick they want to make. ASSume the flicks are viewable by those who have reached the age of majority. Most film makers are already required to shoot alternate footage for the TV version. With digital distribution to theaters (How are we coming on that?) let the theaters show the different versions at different times of the day.
I don't want my media censored. At the same time, I'm weary of writers, musicians and film makers who act like little kids and try to see what they can get away with just for the sake of doing it.
If you don't want to watch something, fine, don't watch it, but you don't have the right to stop me from watching it, so bugger off.
This article compares the efficiency of hydrogen production with that of biodiesel. It also proposes algae as a source of biodiesel. Deserts aren't "dead" just because they appear to be dead. It would require study, but desert algae farms could produce all the biodiesel we need without impinging on food production.
Biodiesel requires no new technology to implement. Many fine diesel vehicles are already on the market. Homebrew biodiesel is simple and inexpensive. "Little people" like you and I can get started today.
When Rudolf Diesel invented the diesel engine, he designed it to run on peanut oil.
"[Henry]Ford was so convinced that renewable resources were the key to the success of his automobiles that he built a plant to make ethanol in the Midwest and formed a partnership with Standard Oil to sell it in their distributing stations. During the 1920's, this biofuel was 25% of Standard Oil's sales in that area."
This two page.pdf provides additional and larger images. You can clearly see the etching and degree of tint. It also includes tables of electrical and mechanical specs.
Hydrogen is highly explosive and must be stored at high pressure in non-corrosive tanks. Due to hydrogens' low energy density and storage limitations, hydrogen vehicles will be of short range.
In Widescale Biodiesel Production from Algae Michael Briggs of the University of New Hampshire Physics Department offers an enlightening comparison of hydrogen and biodiesel fuels.
Biodiesel is here today and it doesn't require new technology. It will power existing vehicles equiped with diesel engines.
This is lovely, but beyond the means of the average/.er.
With a little ingenuity and, say, $100,000 you can build your own and save a bundle.
McRae and Sons Inc., the last US paint brush handle factory, builds their own 4 axis 3D wood carving machines for considerably less. The same principles can be applied to carving stone.
McRae's machines rely on Actek Inc. motion controllers, though manufacturers abound. You might be surprised how many are amenable to working with amatures.
Check eBay - no kidding - for cheap machines that can be canibalized or restored.
"The e-books and e-newspapers of the future will be portable and wireless and reprintable in an instant. They are likely to make use of an emerging technology--digital ink currently under development at Xerox PARC (with 3M) and MIT's Media Lab. The prototypes are card stock flexible pieces of paper with laserprint quality text that can be reprinted millions of times. Couple this with the 300-Mbyte microdrives the size of quarters stored in the spine of the book and the reader has instant access to the information currently housed in whole libraries. Students are likely to carry very small e-books--about the size of a spiral notebook. However it will contain all the curriculum resources they need for all of their classes for many years. The books will show words, images, movies and sounds. The Internet will be one of many distribution and sharing resources for new learning materials." Digital ink. Pulp Fiction.
I'm considering going to cash for most everything. Has anyone experimented with that lately, and what difficulties did you face?
It depends on your lifestyle. I did this several years ago. I was working and sleeping and little else. I was not in consumer mode. I cashed paychecks at the bank they were drawn on as needed. I used money orders to pay rent/phone/heat.
It worked to help me stay focused and save money.
The biggest problem was when it was time to shift out of cash mode. I wanted to buy a house, didn't have enough credit references and had a heck of a time explaining how I came up with $30,000 in cash.
Steve Wozniak championed the universal remote 20 years ago and the American public went, "Huh?".
GE had their own flavor.
Have you ever seen a can grabber? A stick with a clamp on one end for grabbing cans off the top shelf? Been around since general stores. Back in the '50s you could buy one that would grab the TV's barrel switch channel selector. Give it a twist.
I'm tired of all these expensive gizmos that inevitably need to be replaced when you buy new equipment. Just let me network my A/V equipment and dl open source control software off the net. A wireless keyboard wouldn't take up any more space than half a dozen remotes.
...for those considering mixing hallucinogens with the workplace...
Rumor spread around the ship that we were going to be hit with a locker inspection. I rumaged and found an old tab of acid under some socks. Didn't think it would be any good after six months, so I ate it, put on my dress blues and headed topside for my quarterdeck watch. Took about half an hour to add three lines to the log. The Officer of the Deck looked at me kinda funny, but I didn't get too paranoid and it never crossed my mind to use my loaded.45 on him. All in all it was pretty mellow, but I wouldn't recommend it.
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Pardon me for being old tech, but you can have a similar experience at your local amusement park for a lot less money plus you have a shot at picking up chicks.
If you feel the need to add to the thrill, consider that the tons of steel in your average amusement ride is assembled by minimum wage carnies - composed of felons, degenerates and illiterates - and held together with cotter-keys.
The dog really did eat my homework!
Steps 2 and 3 look easy enough. ...
I've been working on step 1 for 35 years without much success.
Perhaps it could be factored into a. b. c.
I had a landlady like that. After a few drinks, she told me in great detail how she had cleverly killed her husband in an untracable manner.
"What else could I do?", she said. "I'm Catholic. I couldn't get a divorce."
Will the reactors have remote detonation capability in case these third worlders someday disagree with our foreign policy?
Not a suggestion. Just paranoia.
Oh, geez!
The weight lifter is pretty bad, but I think the cab driver is worse.
Will anyone actually have the nerve to mod this post "informative"?
I've never seen anyone arrested for stapling campaign posters to utility poles and those damn things last forever.
Are plans for the chalk writer open source?
Bikes Against Bush has been /.ed, how about the NYPD? You can send a message to Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly here.
Your cowardice and/or opinions do not change your societal obligations, and failing to uphold those obligations is perhaps one of the most dis-honorable things a person can do.
While I agree with you, what risk is there for draft evaders given Carter's precedent setting pardon for Vietnam era draft evaders?
From the WSJ:"The Insult of Carter's Mass Pardon"
Letters to the Editor February 23, 2001
(A copy can be found here)
While the Carter presidency may have handled cases of individual presidential pardons with great care, Mr. Carter's first official act as president was to pardon, en masse, all those who had been or could be charged with draft evasion during the Vietnam era. Motivated by the ever-present desire of American politicians to "heal the wounds" of the Vietnam War, and beyond doubt manipulated by the army of antiwar McGovernites who had seized control of the Democratic Party, Mr. Carter's gesture had the symbolic effect of elevating everyone who had opposed the Vietnam War to the level of moral purist, and by implication insulting those who often had struggled just as deeply with the moral dimensions of the war and had decided, often at great sacrifice, to honor the laws of their country and serve.
It would be interesting to see a list of books children are required to read, around the country and around the world.
My 6th grade class was required to read The Scarlet Letter. I still question adultery as an appropriate theme for grade schoolers. If it was supposed to impart a moral lesson, it missed its' mark as we all knew the teacher was having an affair with the gym instructor. It shouldn't have been banned, but should it have been required?
And why isn't Fanny Hill on that list? ;)
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DVD comentaries are peppered with "We had to take this out." "We had to change that to show in England." "For some reason we were required to do abc while xyz was perfectly ok." Sounds a lot like prior restraint, though film makers do it "voluntarily" to avoid economic suicide.
I can't watch any film I like if it is not allowed to be made in the first place.
I've never seen a rating system for books - thank God. Some popular music is dissed for sex, obscenity, etc., but a rating system? Why are movies special?
Let the film makers make the flick they want to make. ASSume the flicks are viewable by those who have reached the age of majority. Most film makers are already required to shoot alternate footage for the TV version. With digital distribution to theaters (How are we coming on that?) let the theaters show the different versions at different times of the day.
I don't want my media censored. At the same time, I'm weary of writers, musicians and film makers who act like little kids and try to see what they can get away with just for the sake of doing it.
If you don't want to watch something, fine, don't watch it, but you don't have the right to stop me from watching it, so bugger off.
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This article compares the efficiency of hydrogen production with that of biodiesel. It also proposes algae as a source of biodiesel. Deserts aren't "dead" just because they appear to be dead. It would require study, but desert algae farms could produce all the biodiesel we need without impinging on food production.
Biodiesel requires no new technology to implement. Many fine diesel vehicles are already on the market. Homebrew biodiesel is simple and inexpensive. "Little people" like you and I can get started today.
When Rudolf Diesel invented the diesel engine, he designed it to run on peanut oil.
"[Henry]Ford was so convinced that renewable resources were the key to the success of his automobiles that he built a plant to make ethanol in the Midwest and formed a partnership with Standard Oil to sell it in their distributing stations. During the 1920's, this biofuel was 25% of Standard Oil's sales in that area."
This two page .pdf provides additional and larger images. You can clearly see the etching and degree of tint. It also includes tables of electrical and mechanical specs.
It's time to go to full-hydrogen engines in cars.
Hydrogen is highly explosive and must be stored at high pressure in non-corrosive tanks. Due to hydrogens' low energy density and storage limitations, hydrogen vehicles will be of short range.
In Widescale Biodiesel Production from Algae Michael Briggs of the University of New Hampshire Physics Department offers an enlightening comparison of hydrogen and biodiesel fuels.
Biodiesel is here today and it doesn't require new technology. It will power existing vehicles equiped with diesel engines.
The FDA offers this article: Laser Eye Surgery: Is It Worth Looking Into?
This is lovely, but beyond the means of the average /.er.
With a little ingenuity and, say, $100,000 you can build your own and save a bundle.
McRae and Sons Inc., the last US paint brush handle factory, builds their own 4 axis 3D wood carving machines for considerably less. The same principles can be applied to carving stone.
McRae's machines rely on Actek Inc. motion controllers, though manufacturers abound. You might be surprised how many are amenable to working with amatures.
Check eBay - no kidding - for cheap machines that can be canibalized or restored.
"The e-books and e-newspapers of the future will be portable and wireless and reprintable in an instant. They are likely to make use of an emerging technology--digital ink currently under development at Xerox PARC (with 3M) and MIT's Media Lab. The prototypes are card stock flexible pieces of paper with laserprint quality text that can be reprinted millions of times. Couple this with the 300-Mbyte microdrives the size of quarters stored in the spine of the book and the reader has instant access to the information currently housed in whole libraries. Students are likely to carry very small e-books--about the size of a spiral notebook. However it will contain all the curriculum resources they need for all of their classes for many years. The books will show words, images, movies and sounds. The Internet will be one of many distribution and sharing resources for new learning materials." Digital ink. Pulp Fiction.
I'm considering going to cash for most everything. Has anyone experimented with that lately, and what difficulties did you face?
It depends on your lifestyle. I did this several years ago. I was working and sleeping and little else. I was not in consumer mode. I cashed paychecks at the bank they were drawn on as needed. I used money orders to pay rent/phone/heat.
It worked to help me stay focused and save money.
The biggest problem was when it was time to shift out of cash mode. I wanted to buy a house, didn't have enough credit references and had a heck of a time explaining how I came up with $30,000 in cash.
"...also running a Linux-powered car wash..."
Fine, but they don't do windows.
North America has Lake Michigan
They needed to do that? We have CIA agents who carry around stuffed animals? 8\
Steve Wozniak championed the universal remote 20 years ago and the American public went, "Huh?". GE had their own flavor.
Have you ever seen a can grabber? A stick with a clamp on one end for grabbing cans off the top shelf? Been around since general stores. Back in the '50s you could buy one that would grab the TV's barrel switch channel selector. Give it a twist.
I'm tired of all these expensive gizmos that inevitably need to be replaced when you buy new equipment. Just let me network my A/V equipment and dl open source control software off the net. A wireless keyboard wouldn't take up any more space than half a dozen remotes.
...for those considering mixing hallucinogens with the workplace...
.45 on him. All in all it was pretty mellow, but I wouldn't recommend it.
Rumor spread around the ship that we were going to be hit with a locker inspection. I rumaged and found an old tab of acid under some socks. Didn't think it would be any good after six months, so I ate it, put on my dress blues and headed topside for my quarterdeck watch. Took about half an hour to add three lines to the log. The Officer of the Deck looked at me kinda funny, but I didn't get too paranoid and it never crossed my mind to use my loaded
In the courts, a plaintiff can be fined for filing a frivolous suite. Perhaps we need a stiff fine for filing a frivolous patent application.