The article does have a few points. But I find their problem with the menu button and the long click on Android to be a bit of a stretch. "How is someone supposed to know what is there?" Come on, the right click of the mouse is the same. Sometimes the items in the right click pop-up menu change depending on what you clicked on, or what application you are in, or if you are viewing the list of emal, or have one opened.
I think you nailed it there. I was going to post something similar, but you got the sentiment down. It looks shiny and new, and that is what sells. No matter what the people say in a survey, it is what they actually buy that matters.
I learned programming back in the early 80's on a TRS-80. If you turned it on without a cartridge in it, you had access to Basic. So, you didn't even need DOS to program. There is always a way.
This discussion about wedding photographers keeping the negatives and copyright is interesting. Especially since the photographer my wife and I had gave the negatives to us as her normal course of action. As an actual artist, rather than lamer with a camera, she had no interest in wedding photos. She did not offer to sell us albums either, that was up to us to do on our own. She actually does very few weddings, focusing on other subject matter for art. The weddings are something that she does to fill in down time, or make some extra money. But to her, it would seem, those photos are not art. I absolutely love the pictures she took. Great eye and ability to capture the moment.
You really need to read what a person writes before completely making things up to argue about. I said that you COULD have a run on a Bitcoin bank, in the same way that you could have a run on a dollar bank. And somehow you start saying that I claim a run on a Bitcoin bank is impossible.
Plus, a Bitcoin bank could not increase the money supply by creating virtual currency, because each bitcoin movement is verified in the peer to peer network. A bank would be unable to send the same Bitcoin to two different people the way they do with dollars now.
Plus you can have KeePass (one of the password safes) use a password and a key file. The key file is not necessary, but if used can be any file you choose. You could use your wallpaper jpg, or your favorite mp3 file, or some seemingly innocuous ini file burried deep in the folder tree. One extra thing added to the list.
The US dollar has value because it is what the US government accepts for tax payment -- essentially, it has value because having no dollars means you cannot pay taxes and must either be a vagabond who lives off the land or a homeless person who begs other people for food. Dollars have value because American citizens need them in order to pay taxes and not go to jail.
So when you give allowance to children, it is not valid currency because they don't pay taxes? Churches are tax exempt, so does that mean that US dollars are not accepted by them. I'm sorry, but that is a stupid argument. The government has nothing to do with whether currency is accepted or not. If people feel they can use it themselves, then they will accept it. We have places that take forein currency. They can't use that to pay taxes! There are bartering groups out there also that trade in goods and services directly bypassing any need for currency, and presumably paying taxes.
At least with Bitcoin, there is no method for banks to magically multiply the currency by 2 for each step through the process
What stops a bank from providing a Bitcoin loan? Nothing. If a bank is will to accept Bitcoin deposits, then you will see exactly the sort of situation we have today: banks loaning Bitcoin tokens that have been deposited by their customers.
Nothing stops a bank from giving a Bitcoin loan. But they cannot loan out more bitcoins than they have. With 'real' US currency, the banks are allowed to loan more than they bring in. This makes money out of thin air. Bitcoins are digitally tracked from mining to current use. I don't see how you could loan out two copies of the same Bitcoin like they do with dollars.
A run on the Bitcoin banks would be a disaster for the Bitcoin economy since there is essentially no Bitcoin regulation, if Bitcoin banks ever come to exist. The only reason it has not happened yet is that Bitcoin is not big enough to attract the attention of bankers.
I never talked about a run on Bitcoins. Perhaps you need to work on your reading comprehension. I would assume a run on a bank that used Bitcoins would be the same as a run on a bank with dollars. That indeed would be an issue, just as it is currently. And the deflation issue that many people have brought up seems like it could be a problem also.
What, exactly, have merchants been told that has convinced them that Bitcoin currency has actual value?
The same question can be asked of most world currencies. Since the US dollar is no longer on the gold standard, it is just a piece of paper that is only valuable because other people are willing to accept it. If other people are willing to accept Bitcoin for trade, then it is just as viable as a currency. When you start to look closely at how the economy works, it can be kind of scary. People stop spending money because the economy is crashing, which is caused be people not spending money. Catch 22 type of thing.
At least with Bitcoin, there is no method for banks to magically multiply the currency by 2 for each step through the process. A bank gets $100 from the Fed. They can loan out $200, which may be to other banks. The next bank in line does the same thing. You end up with a much larger multiple of currency in circulation than have actually been created to start with. It all sounds like a house of cards ready to fall down.
Scientists talk about there needing to be more matter in the galaxies than they can calculate from observations. Now we are hearing there may be even more free wandering planets than there are stars. Is it possible that all this extra matter that does not give off light could account for the 'Dark Matter'?
B6- find out the doc was only good for Horny Huckster (which is 9.7), you have 10.5 (which is... Priapic Prong ? maybe), look again
B7- don't find any doc you're 100% sure is germane to your setup/issue
B8- try a few, fail
B9- ask on the forums
B10- get shot down as a noob who can't even search for an answer nor ask a question right, 'coz everybody knows the right term is NCSI.
I have run into the problem of finding a solution to an older version that did not work the same on the newer version. But many more times I have run into the problem that there are no search results for the problem I am having on Windows. It seems that Windows has strange one-off problems, or that there is less support out there on the internet when dealing in the Windows world.
I wouldn't say that I am anti-nuclear, but I do think it can be dangerous. Especially with the corner cutting that a lot of corporations try to use to save money. I was struck by this news on how many times I saw a pro-nuclear slashdotter post how the power plant had survived the earthquake just fine. Many people were saying how it was an amazing triumph of engineering that it could withstand the quake that was ten times what it was designed for. If only they had put the pumps up on stilts or someplace where the tsunami would not have caused the damage, everything would have been just fine. I guess that was just a bunch of wishfull thinking now huh? Sure, I understand that at the time it had looked like it survived the earthquake without damage. But you end up losing some credibility and start to look like a fool when it turns out you were completely wrong because you didn't yet have all the facts.
Try to find a theatre that will show your movie. If you aren't working with the system, using a distributor, then you are blocked from having an audience. They do have control. You could get it on YouTube, but they control the more physical distribution methods. That is why they are fighting against the internet in anyway they can. It takes their control away.
No they aren't. Their headquarters is a federally-owned building, their board of governors is appointed by the President of the United States and confirmed by Congress, and they enabled and subject to oversight by the US Congress. All profits are returned to the US Treasury. Hell, they even have a.gov web address. The member banks are private - is that what you mean? Or is it because they can make large decisions without congressional approval? That is by design, and Congress could change it in a single session - it doesn't make them "private", it makes them somewhat independent.
It seems there is a lot of information saying you are wrong on that count. The Federal Reserve is not a part of the government, it is considered a private organization, similar to a corporation. In fact I found a court case stating that fact while searching Google to see if you were correct.
Federal reserve banks are not federal instrumentalities for purposes of a Federal Tort Claims Act, but are independent, privately owned and locally controlled corporations in light of fact that direct supervision and control of each bank is exercised by board of directors, federal reserve banks, though heavily regulated, are locally controlled by their member banks, banks are listed neither as "wholly owned" government corporations nor as "mixed ownership" corporations; federal reserve banks receive no appropriated funds from Congress and the banks are empowered to sue and be sued in their own names. . ..
Do you have any idea just how much your life would suck right now had it not been for the banking system bailout? I'm not talking about Bill Gates's life; I'm talking about your life. Just read up on previous liquidity crises where the federal government did not step in, and look at what happened to the common man like you and me.
I don't know what the current situation would be right now if things had been different. Neither do you, or anyone for that matter. But I do know that past recessions were created on purpose by the Federal Reserve to test their ability of controlling the economy. I am glad you have such faith in your masters, I would rather have an open system that cannot be so easily manipulated by the people controlling it. In trying to look up the recession that was created on purpose (I think it was before the great depression sometime), I found plenty of sites saying this one was also caused by the Fed. Good job guys!
Sometimes things can't be verified, or at least can't be verified with an average person's resources. Sometimes, it's as simple as dropping to a fucking shell and typing "ping thepiratebay.org" with a non-Comcast ISP and realizing that people are being "sheeple." Which do you figure this was?
Not everybody attached to this story was wrong. From the sounds of it, there was a progression where at some point, non-Comcast users could still reach the site while Comcasters couldn't. But by the time the story hit Slashdot, it was already bullshit and not one person in the entire chain of posting this story, including paid "editors," bothered to see if it was true. Then the vast majority of Slashdotters, many of whom posted some idiocy about how superior they are yesterday and will do so again tomorrow, jumped right on the bandwagon, unable to be bothered to spend literally ten seconds of their own time to verify what they're being told.
When I read through the thread yesterday, plenty of people had posted that it wasn't just Comcast that was having issues getting to TPB. So you seem to be doing the same idiocy you are claiming other were doing. Did you spend literally ten seconds reading though the thread to see what people wrote? Or did you just want to be superior today, and will probably do so again tomorrow.
The situation with Apple requiring a special chip be purchased and then paying them a fee for each product sold vs the Android open access and anyone can build an accessory to sell reminds me of the early Apple vz IBM days. Apple made all the hardware and software while there were many IBM clones. Due to the more open nature of the connectors and operating systems that run on each PC, the IBM version won out in the end. Apple products have always been praised for being well build and easy to use. I stayed away from them because I wanted to get into guts of whatever I was doing. I felt too restricted on Apple. It's just interesting that this new competiton looks very similar.
For some reason there is a subset of people that believe they need to do this to "keep their Windows clean", though there's really no need to.
It's a hold over from 9x. If you installed/uninstalled a lot of software (e.g. games) from a 9x box its stability and speed really did start to suffer.
I don't think it is a hold over from 9x. I used to play a lot of games on XP. After a year to a year and a half I found I was having slow-downs in some of the games I played. Or newly installed games needed their screen resolutions set lower than I wanted. After a fresh install of XP, the computer would be running faster than it was before. With all the programs that get installed and uninstalled over 18 months, it crusted up the OS. Now that my system is too old to play games, I don't ever need to reinstall it. But I don't need every ounce of performance wrung out of it either.
When I heard that they dumped the body into the ocean so quickly I began to suspect that they had actually killed him. Either they are keeping him alive someplace, or even more likely, he has been dead for a while already.
Annette Krüger Spitta of the ARD's (German public broadcasting) TV magazine Panorama states that footage not aired shows that the street surrounding the celebration in Jerusalem is quiet. Furthermore, she states that a man in a white T-shirt incited the children and gathered people together for the shot. The Panorama report, dated September 20, 2001, quotes Communications Professor Martin Löffelholz explaining that in the images one sees jubilant Palestinian children and several adults but there is no indication that their pleasure is related to the attack. The woman seen cheering (Nawal Abdel Fatah) stated afterwards that she was offered cake if she celebrated on camera, and was frightened when she saw the pictures on television afterward.[24]
There was also rumour that the footage of some Palestinians celebrating the attacks was stock footage of Palestinian reactions to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.[25] This rumour was proven false shortly afterwards,[26] and CNN issued a statement to that effect.[27]
When the ragheads - AHEM - Muslims danced in the streets after 9/11, we frowned on them, and named them animals, or worse. Then we take out one of theirs, and we behave in the same manner.
People who danced in the streets after 9/11, cheered the deaths of several thousand civilians.
Except, the only pictures of people celebrating after 9/11 were staged by a photographer. The participants were not told what the pictures were going to portray, only to act a certain way. Once the photos where in all the papers, they were quite shocked to see how their images were used. The American government has manipulated it's population from the beginning of all of this. They are the true animals.
I was always told by doctors that having a baby after over 35 was dangerous to the mother. That's from several American doctors, who were our OB/GYN's for my 3 children.
The problem with listening to American doctors about child birth is that they aren't the most knoledgeable on the subject. America has pretty bad infant mortality rates for a "1st world nation". They treat child birth as an operation and push way too many Cesarean Sections. I watched a very interesting documentary a little while ago called "The Business of Being Born". It's available on Netflix Instant Streaming. I would recomend it to anyone.
If you can put an atomic clock into a GPS unit, you can match the timing signal on more than just the number pattern. You can match on the square wave train. This allows you to get into millimeter accuracy. For use in car navigation, not neccessary. But if you want to do survey work, it could be very usefull.
The really cool trick is to put a coil against the wall near the electric meter. You use the electric companies power to create a magnetic field that slows down the meter. If you make the field too strong you would even start moving it backwards, so you have to make sure the number of loops is enough to have an effect, but not too much that it would be noticed for having too large of an effect.
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The article does have a few points. But I find their problem with the menu button and the long click on Android to be a bit of a stretch. "How is someone supposed to know what is there?" Come on, the right click of the mouse is the same. Sometimes the items in the right click pop-up menu change depending on what you clicked on, or what application you are in, or if you are viewing the list of emal, or have one opened.
Because Sony execs are assholes, customers who just want to play a video game should have their credit card data stolen.
Really?
And the folks building the Death Star were just inoccent contractors who didn't deserve to die.
If you are going to help feed the beast, then don't be surprised when you are targeted by the hunters also.
I think you nailed it there. I was going to post something similar, but you got the sentiment down. It looks shiny and new, and that is what sells. No matter what the people say in a survey, it is what they actually buy that matters.
I learned programming back in the early 80's on a TRS-80. If you turned it on without a cartridge in it, you had access to Basic. So, you didn't even need DOS to program. There is always a way.
This discussion about wedding photographers keeping the negatives and copyright is interesting. Especially since the photographer my wife and I had gave the negatives to us as her normal course of action. As an actual artist, rather than lamer with a camera, she had no interest in wedding photos. She did not offer to sell us albums either, that was up to us to do on our own. She actually does very few weddings, focusing on other subject matter for art. The weddings are something that she does to fill in down time, or make some extra money. But to her, it would seem, those photos are not art. I absolutely love the pictures she took. Great eye and ability to capture the moment.
You really need to read what a person writes before completely making things up to argue about. I said that you COULD have a run on a Bitcoin bank, in the same way that you could have a run on a dollar bank. And somehow you start saying that I claim a run on a Bitcoin bank is impossible.
Plus, a Bitcoin bank could not increase the money supply by creating virtual currency, because each bitcoin movement is verified in the peer to peer network. A bank would be unable to send the same Bitcoin to two different people the way they do with dollars now.
Plus you can have KeePass (one of the password safes) use a password and a key file. The key file is not necessary, but if used can be any file you choose. You could use your wallpaper jpg, or your favorite mp3 file, or some seemingly innocuous ini file burried deep in the folder tree. One extra thing added to the list.
The US dollar has value because it is what the US government accepts for tax payment -- essentially, it has value because having no dollars means you cannot pay taxes and must either be a vagabond who lives off the land or a homeless person who begs other people for food. Dollars have value because American citizens need them in order to pay taxes and not go to jail.
So when you give allowance to children, it is not valid currency because they don't pay taxes? Churches are tax exempt, so does that mean that US dollars are not accepted by them. I'm sorry, but that is a stupid argument. The government has nothing to do with whether currency is accepted or not. If people feel they can use it themselves, then they will accept it. We have places that take forein currency. They can't use that to pay taxes! There are bartering groups out there also that trade in goods and services directly bypassing any need for currency, and presumably paying taxes.
At least with Bitcoin, there is no method for banks to magically multiply the currency by 2 for each step through the process
What stops a bank from providing a Bitcoin loan? Nothing. If a bank is will to accept Bitcoin deposits, then you will see exactly the sort of situation we have today: banks loaning Bitcoin tokens that have been deposited by their customers.
Nothing stops a bank from giving a Bitcoin loan. But they cannot loan out more bitcoins than they have. With 'real' US currency, the banks are allowed to loan more than they bring in. This makes money out of thin air. Bitcoins are digitally tracked from mining to current use. I don't see how you could loan out two copies of the same Bitcoin like they do with dollars.
A run on the Bitcoin banks would be a disaster for the Bitcoin economy since there is essentially no Bitcoin regulation, if Bitcoin banks ever come to exist. The only reason it has not happened yet is that Bitcoin is not big enough to attract the attention of bankers.
I never talked about a run on Bitcoins. Perhaps you need to work on your reading comprehension. I would assume a run on a bank that used Bitcoins would be the same as a run on a bank with dollars. That indeed would be an issue, just as it is currently. And the deflation issue that many people have brought up seems like it could be a problem also.
What, exactly, have merchants been told that has convinced them that Bitcoin currency has actual value?
The same question can be asked of most world currencies. Since the US dollar is no longer on the gold standard, it is just a piece of paper that is only valuable because other people are willing to accept it. If other people are willing to accept Bitcoin for trade, then it is just as viable as a currency. When you start to look closely at how the economy works, it can be kind of scary. People stop spending money because the economy is crashing, which is caused be people not spending money. Catch 22 type of thing.
At least with Bitcoin, there is no method for banks to magically multiply the currency by 2 for each step through the process. A bank gets $100 from the Fed. They can loan out $200, which may be to other banks. The next bank in line does the same thing. You end up with a much larger multiple of currency in circulation than have actually been created to start with. It all sounds like a house of cards ready to fall down.
Scientists talk about there needing to be more matter in the galaxies than they can calculate from observations. Now we are hearing there may be even more free wandering planets than there are stars. Is it possible that all this extra matter that does not give off light could account for the 'Dark Matter'?
B6- find out the doc was only good for Horny Huckster (which is 9.7), you have 10.5 (which is ... Priapic Prong ? maybe), look again
B7- don't find any doc you're 100% sure is germane to your setup/issue
B8- try a few, fail
B9- ask on the forums
B10- get shot down as a noob who can't even search for an answer nor ask a question right, 'coz everybody knows the right term is NCSI.
I have run into the problem of finding a solution to an older version that did not work the same on the newer version. But many more times I have run into the problem that there are no search results for the problem I am having on Windows. It seems that Windows has strange one-off problems, or that there is less support out there on the internet when dealing in the Windows world.
I wouldn't say that I am anti-nuclear, but I do think it can be dangerous. Especially with the corner cutting that a lot of corporations try to use to save money. I was struck by this news on how many times I saw a pro-nuclear slashdotter post how the power plant had survived the earthquake just fine. Many people were saying how it was an amazing triumph of engineering that it could withstand the quake that was ten times what it was designed for. If only they had put the pumps up on stilts or someplace where the tsunami would not have caused the damage, everything would have been just fine. I guess that was just a bunch of wishfull thinking now huh? Sure, I understand that at the time it had looked like it survived the earthquake without damage. But you end up losing some credibility and start to look like a fool when it turns out you were completely wrong because you didn't yet have all the facts.
Because you solve two problems at once. One you get power, and two you get rid of the humans that are causing you trouble.
Try to find a theatre that will show your movie. If you aren't working with the system, using a distributor, then you are blocked from having an audience. They do have control. You could get it on YouTube, but they control the more physical distribution methods. That is why they are fighting against the internet in anyway they can. It takes their control away.
No they aren't. Their headquarters is a federally-owned building, their board of governors is appointed by the President of the United States and confirmed by Congress, and they enabled and subject to oversight by the US Congress. All profits are returned to the US Treasury. Hell, they even have a .gov web address. The member banks are private - is that what you mean? Or is it because they can make large decisions without congressional approval? That is by design, and Congress could change it in a single session - it doesn't make them "private", it makes them somewhat independent.
It seems there is a lot of information saying you are wrong on that count. The Federal Reserve is not a part of the government, it is considered a private organization, similar to a corporation. In fact I found a court case stating that fact while searching Google to see if you were correct.
court case
Federal reserve banks are not federal instrumentalities for purposes of a Federal Tort Claims Act, but are independent, privately owned and locally controlled corporations in light of fact that direct supervision and control of each bank is exercised by board of directors, federal reserve banks, though heavily regulated, are locally controlled by their member banks, banks are listed neither as "wholly owned" government corporations nor as "mixed ownership" corporations; federal reserve banks receive no appropriated funds from Congress and the banks are empowered to sue and be sued in their own names. . . .
Do you have any idea just how much your life would suck right now had it not been for the banking system bailout? I'm not talking about Bill Gates's life; I'm talking about your life. Just read up on previous liquidity crises where the federal government did not step in, and look at what happened to the common man like you and me.
I don't know what the current situation would be right now if things had been different. Neither do you, or anyone for that matter. But I do know that past recessions were created on purpose by the Federal Reserve to test their ability of controlling the economy. I am glad you have such faith in your masters, I would rather have an open system that cannot be so easily manipulated by the people controlling it. In trying to look up the recession that was created on purpose (I think it was before the great depression sometime), I found plenty of sites saying this one was also caused by the Fed. Good job guys!
Sometimes things can't be verified, or at least can't be verified with an average person's resources. Sometimes, it's as simple as dropping to a fucking shell and typing "ping thepiratebay.org" with a non-Comcast ISP and realizing that people are being "sheeple." Which do you figure this was?
Not everybody attached to this story was wrong. From the sounds of it, there was a progression where at some point, non-Comcast users could still reach the site while Comcasters couldn't. But by the time the story hit Slashdot, it was already bullshit and not one person in the entire chain of posting this story, including paid "editors," bothered to see if it was true. Then the vast majority of Slashdotters, many of whom posted some idiocy about how superior they are yesterday and will do so again tomorrow, jumped right on the bandwagon, unable to be bothered to spend literally ten seconds of their own time to verify what they're being told.
When I read through the thread yesterday, plenty of people had posted that it wasn't just Comcast that was having issues getting to TPB. So you seem to be doing the same idiocy you are claiming other were doing. Did you spend literally ten seconds reading though the thread to see what people wrote? Or did you just want to be superior today, and will probably do so again tomorrow.
The situation with Apple requiring a special chip be purchased and then paying them a fee for each product sold vs the Android open access and anyone can build an accessory to sell reminds me of the early Apple vz IBM days. Apple made all the hardware and software while there were many IBM clones. Due to the more open nature of the connectors and operating systems that run on each PC, the IBM version won out in the end. Apple products have always been praised for being well build and easy to use. I stayed away from them because I wanted to get into guts of whatever I was doing. I felt too restricted on Apple. It's just interesting that this new competiton looks very similar.
For some reason there is a subset of people that believe they need to do this to "keep their Windows clean", though there's really no need to.
It's a hold over from 9x. If you installed/uninstalled a lot of software (e.g. games) from a 9x box its stability and speed really did start to suffer.
I don't think it is a hold over from 9x. I used to play a lot of games on XP. After a year to a year and a half I found I was having slow-downs in some of the games I played. Or newly installed games needed their screen resolutions set lower than I wanted. After a fresh install of XP, the computer would be running faster than it was before. With all the programs that get installed and uninstalled over 18 months, it crusted up the OS. Now that my system is too old to play games, I don't ever need to reinstall it. But I don't need every ounce of performance wrung out of it either.
When I heard that they dumped the body into the ocean so quickly I began to suspect that they had actually killed him. Either they are keeping him alive someplace, or even more likely, he has been dead for a while already.
I found this page with lots of statements from people about how Bin Laden died back in 2001. http://www.rense.com/general94/lies.htm
It makes you wonder.
I found the same information on other sites on the Internet though. Here is a link to Wikipedia that has the same information in it. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reactions_to_the_September_11_attacks&oldid=427793399
And here is the relevant quote.
Annette Krüger Spitta of the ARD's (German public broadcasting) TV magazine Panorama states that footage not aired shows that the street surrounding the celebration in Jerusalem is quiet. Furthermore, she states that a man in a white T-shirt incited the children and gathered people together for the shot. The Panorama report, dated September 20, 2001, quotes Communications Professor Martin Löffelholz explaining that in the images one sees jubilant Palestinian children and several adults but there is no indication that their pleasure is related to the attack. The woman seen cheering (Nawal Abdel Fatah) stated afterwards that she was offered cake if she celebrated on camera, and was frightened when she saw the pictures on television afterward.[24]
There was also rumour that the footage of some Palestinians celebrating the attacks was stock footage of Palestinian reactions to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.[25] This rumour was proven false shortly afterwards,[26] and CNN issued a statement to that effect.[27]
When the ragheads - AHEM - Muslims danced in the streets after 9/11, we frowned on them, and named them animals, or worse. Then we take out one of theirs, and we behave in the same manner.
People who danced in the streets after 9/11, cheered the deaths of several thousand civilians.
Except, the only pictures of people celebrating after 9/11 were staged by a photographer. The participants were not told what the pictures were going to portray, only to act a certain way. Once the photos where in all the papers, they were quite shocked to see how their images were used. The American government has manipulated it's population from the beginning of all of this. They are the true animals.
I was always told by doctors that having a baby after over 35 was dangerous to the mother. That's from several American doctors, who were our OB/GYN's for my 3 children.
The problem with listening to American doctors about child birth is that they aren't the most knoledgeable on the subject. America has pretty bad infant mortality rates for a "1st world nation". They treat child birth as an operation and push way too many Cesarean Sections. I watched a very interesting documentary a little while ago called "The Business of Being Born". It's available on Netflix Instant Streaming. I would recomend it to anyone.
For what?
If you can put an atomic clock into a GPS unit, you can match the timing signal on more than just the number pattern. You can match on the square wave train. This allows you to get into millimeter accuracy. For use in car navigation, not neccessary. But if you want to do survey work, it could be very usefull.
The really cool trick is to put a coil against the wall near the electric meter. You use the electric companies power to create a magnetic field that slows down the meter. If you make the field too strong you would even start moving it backwards, so you have to make sure the number of loops is enough to have an effect, but not too much that it would be noticed for having too large of an effect.