Somewhere between the Donald (Trump, "bankrupt" a few years ago (yeah, right)) and this guy is the level at which you're wealthy enough to hide assets and "broke" enough to declare bankruptcy... sigh.
I am hereby declaring the following: I am, by virtue of native born citizenship and age a member of the class eligible to be elected to the office of President of the United States of America. I am interested in accepting the position. To that end, I am requesting eligible parties to begin petitions for including my name on the next general preisdential election ballot in their respective states. I will have a website up listing my basic positions on issues within the next month.
Point to point indeed: Assuming maser beams with similar efficiencies to their optical counterparts, one could pour mega-wattages into a 12 foot dish from as far away as need be: Just do NOT cross the streams - with *anything*.:-)
people could just use email services that share their ad revenue from page views...
Spam me, please - I get paid to open and delete it.
BWA-HAHAHA, the spam-fattened troll laughs.
No info on prices for a Stirling engine suitable to put in front of this toy, can't find the reference to the individual who built a backyard concentrator in a 7' satellite dish, nothing on materials for a refractory crystal capable of creating a real beam at the focal point, now my head is spinning around the idea of adding a cylinder internally mirrored from just shy of the focal point to several inches beyond it containing at its center a laser-capable crystal or substance container (Who needs expensive xenon pumping flash tubes? we've got ~3kw of sunlight!) - and no, the resulting assembly would NOT fit on the head of a shark - want mobility, buy a truck. But thanks for the ideas.
A suggestion, if I may: Read "The Only Dance There Is", by Ram Dass. The word choices in your post suggest to me that it might just be time to learn some more. Just don't feed the trolls...tt
"Honest Spam" - a matter of definition. Any company that does business online has, at one time or another, to some extent or another, sent out Unsolicited Commercial Email (caps intentional, abbrev. UCE). Now, *If* they are in *full* compliance with CAN_SPAM (subject line starts ADV:, [or ADLTADV:], they have a postal mail address listed as well as an electronic "remove" method, and send the email from the same server that the header identifies), then they are "honest". It's truly sad that so many people are so violently opposed to this form of advertising that they paint the honest advertisers with the same tar brush as the dishonest ones who ruin it for all... Of course, I love the stuff regardless. See my sig. - just don't feed the trolls... tt
Education: Definition, term "Benign Essential Tremors": "Benign", not caused from malignancy/tumor/progressive disease; "essential", necessary or common - everyone's hands shake to some degree, it's just some (to) a lot more noticeable in some of us; "Tremors", shaking or vibratory motions.
There are many of us who are not geriatric, alcoholic, diabetic, epileptic, or otherwise impaired who will welcome this device as an alternative to keeping mouse sensitivity at minimum.
(Oh, and yes, I *do* suck at FPS games, and I *do* find it frustrating, as it's one of the ways I spend quality time (time *they* enjoy) with my sons)
I've followed occasional sig-links to blogs, and saw one with a disclaimer that was truly inspired, something along the lines of the below:
"Guests are welcome to reply to posts with *RELEVANT* comments (relevancy judged solely by blog owner's opinion): NON-relevant replies/posts with or without links to other sites will be assumed to be unwanted commercial endorsements: posting said endorsements in *this* blog means poster agrees to a US$1,000.00 per day charge, effective immediately upon said post/reply being entered, due and payable to blog owner immediately and every day objectionable post remains."
(There was more in legalese, but I loved the gist of it - post some b.s. commercial in my blog, it will *cost* you.)
No, I basically *read* only those items that come from senders I know/whitelist: I basically *scan* through the rest, and only need to add a very few new senders to my personal address book every once in a while. The email address I list here and elsewhere is designed to get spam, and the more the better - I get no truly needed emails to my zwallet address...
I've created a home-brewed whitelist: simply, anything from a known-good address gets filtered according to one of several rules that may apply:
anything not previously filtered by any of the above rules goes into a "suspect" folder;
I scan that every couple days and add the senders I want to my whitelist: the rest get mass-deleted.
Slashdot Mirror
"ssh" pun (security? sound of static on radio?)
Pop-ups? On my TIVO-recorded-specifrically-so-I-could-skip-ads-if -I-owned-a-tivo box?
I'm not going to buy one.
One less potential customer. Not like you care.
Don't feed the trolls (tt) - Especially the advertiser trolls, they're slimier, ew.
5 less emails per day to my "paid to read" email account.
When I said don't feed the trolls (tt), I meant the *other* trolls, not ME!
Somewhere between the Donald (Trump, "bankrupt" a few years ago (yeah, right)) and this guy is the level at which you're wealthy enough to hide assets and "broke" enough to declare bankruptcy...
sigh.
...But I'm purchasing a few APR 40 put options on SNE at the open...
I am hereby declaring the following: I am, by virtue of native born citizenship and age a member of the class eligible to be elected to the office of President of the United States of America. I am interested in accepting the position. To that end, I am requesting eligible parties to begin petitions for including my name on the next general preisdential election ballot in their respective states. I will have a website up listing my basic positions on issues within the next month.
Lensman series? Venus Equilateral? (Anybody remember the "Science" part of "Science Fiction" for that last?)
Is it time to resurrect "OMNI" yet?
Point to point indeed: Assuming maser beams with similar efficiencies to their optical counterparts, one could pour mega-wattages into a 12 foot dish from as far away as need be: Just do NOT cross the streams - with *anything*. :-)
Heck of an idea, but: What would be wrong with changing the laser to a maser? Don't microwave power receivers work slightly better?
people could just use email services that share their ad revenue from page views... Spam me, please - I get paid to open and delete it. BWA-HAHAHA, the spam-fattened troll laughs.
No info on prices for a Stirling engine suitable to put in front of this toy, can't find the reference to the individual who built a backyard concentrator in a 7' satellite dish, nothing on materials for a refractory crystal capable of creating a real beam at the focal point, now my head is spinning around the idea of adding a cylinder internally mirrored from just shy of the focal point to several inches beyond it containing at its center a laser-capable crystal or substance container (Who needs expensive xenon pumping flash tubes? we've got ~3kw of sunlight!) - and no, the resulting assembly would NOT fit on the head of a shark - want mobility, buy a truck.
But thanks for the ideas.
We'll strip mine the other planets later?
If it weren't for the 2-minute delay between posts...
Just don't feed the trolls (tt)
A suggestion, if I may: Read "The Only Dance There Is", by Ram Dass. The word choices in your post suggest to me that it might just be time to learn some more.
Just don't feed the trolls...tt
enjoying the sig, thanks.
"Honest Spam" - a matter of definition. Any company that does business online has, at one time or another, to some extent or another, sent out Unsolicited Commercial Email (caps intentional, abbrev. UCE). Now, *If* they are in *full* compliance with CAN_SPAM (subject line starts ADV:, [or ADLTADV:], they have a postal mail address listed as well as an electronic "remove" method, and send the email from the same server that the header identifies), then they are "honest".
It's truly sad that so many people are so violently opposed to this form of advertising that they paint the honest advertisers with the same tar brush as the dishonest ones who ruin it for all...
Of course, I love the stuff regardless. See my sig. - just don't feed the trolls... tt
contact them and let them know how much they lose - post a link to the /. story in your comment, at this link:
owt.net
I did.
Graceful - I like this one...
Education: Definition, term "Benign Essential Tremors": "Benign", not caused from malignancy/tumor/progressive disease; "essential", necessary or common - everyone's hands shake to some degree, it's just some (to) a lot more noticeable in some of us; "Tremors", shaking or vibratory motions.
There are many of us who are not geriatric, alcoholic, diabetic, epileptic, or otherwise impaired who will welcome this device as an alternative to keeping mouse sensitivity at minimum.
(Oh, and yes, I *do* suck at FPS games, and I *do* find it frustrating, as it's one of the ways I spend quality time (time *they* enjoy) with my sons)
I've followed occasional sig-links to blogs, and saw one with a disclaimer that was truly inspired, something along the lines of the below:
"Guests are welcome to reply to posts with *RELEVANT* comments (relevancy judged solely by blog owner's opinion): NON-relevant replies/posts with or without links to other sites will be assumed to be unwanted commercial endorsements: posting said endorsements in *this* blog means poster agrees to a US$1,000.00 per day charge, effective immediately upon said post/reply being entered, due and payable to blog owner immediately and every day objectionable post remains."
(There was more in legalese, but I loved the gist of it - post some b.s. commercial in my blog, it will *cost* you.)
No, I basically *read* only those items that come from senders I know/whitelist: I basically *scan* through the rest, and only need to add a very few new senders to my personal address book every once in a while. The email address I list here and elsewhere is designed to get spam, and the more the better - I get no truly needed emails to my zwallet address...
I've created a home-brewed whitelist: simply, anything from a known-good address gets filtered according to one of several rules that may apply: anything not previously filtered by any of the above rules goes into a "suspect" folder; I scan that every couple days and add the senders I want to my whitelist: the rest get mass-deleted.
"And it would destroy record companies' incentive to invest in new acts"
When the above is the only argument against it that holds any water, one suspects what they truly fear is...
"And it would destroy record companies"
nuffsaid!
"Those who choose to avoid politics give their tacit consent to the very real probability of being governed by someone less intelligent than them."
It actually looked a bit punny to me...
...And Hustler gave me carpal tunnel! You have hit the nail square on the head!