I got this IQ 'average' thing from a story I read somewhere that one of President Eisenhower's advisors told him about a crisis just after Sputnik went up-
"Fully 50% of our population have below-average IQ!"
Eisenhower was clearly alarmed by this statistic.
But of course there's hope yet- NPR reports that in Lake Woebegon, Minn., all the women are strong, all the men are good looking and all the children are above average.
- "Prairie Home Companion" on NPR.
Lissen, everyone knows (well, the top 50% of us do) that the Apollo moon landings were faked, and of course these new Lunar orbitors will be also!
As proof, I offer you the fact, not theory, that fully 50% of the American people are below average intelligence. Do you think any OTHER country on this planet exhibits these dismal intellectual statistics? How could the USA have ever gone to the moon with this average IQ level?
For that matter, there is no such thing as North America (or South America). We "North Americans" number no more than about 35,000 deluded people, and we live in a large compound in France.
Yes, FRANCE, Dammit! Get used to it. It's time someone spoke up against this "Theory of Columbus" !
I remmeber a copy of Pop Mech (or was it Pop Science?) that I read perhaps 30,.. well, probably 40 years ago, published just after the Luna-1 (I think that was the name) went around the Moon and photographed the FAR SIDE OF THE MOON for the first time.
Humans actually got to see what was on the other side!
Of course those pesky commies named the various Lunalogic features there after Soviet heroes- Crater Mendeleyev, Mare Moscovium, Sea of Lenin, etc.
The rag in question claimed it was all a big hoax.
Well when NASA (with robot cameras) and later US astronauts finally managed to circle the moon, they reported back sadly that the lunagraphic features jived with the original Russian data.
I believe it's still called Mare Moscovium or whatever.
Not long after I gave up reading these trashy magazines. Oddly they still survive today.
But then, so does General Motors....
OOPS! Sorry! It's Hardy's TAXICAB number.
I had to go and post from memory without first reading the whole wiki!
Why doesnt/. have a correction/self-editing feature ?
When the day comes when every tractor and piece of machinery on
the mega-corp biofuel 'farm' is first completely powered by Ethanol and NOT gasoline, and then WHAT'S LEFT OVER is sold to us, I'll believe its a real alternative.
i.e.- the bio-fuel production must be self-sustaining.
Until then, I suspect we are just using up more fossil fuels to produce this so-called 'green' fuel....
But that's OK- politicians and big agro-business need an agenda.
And besides, it makes us feel all warm and fuzzy to fill our gas tanks with this stuff, right?
I had windows and DOORS on my disks 30 years ago!
on
Hard Drive Window
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· Score: 1
As a systems programmer, I used to spend HOURS watching the platters spin, the arm/head assemblies move in and out, and feel that sexy big drive vibrate as the computer slowly generated an operating system from a tape.
Bonius: The TAPE drives even had windows!
The IBM 3330 disk drives (and their OEMs) had all of 100 Meg as I recall, and we could even open the window, (while the heads were retracted of course), take out the platters and swap the whole disk assemblies back and forth.
Now why can't we do this with our current WD, Seagate and Maxtor drives?
I remember, as a kid in the early '60s (late '50s?) the Russians photographed the back side of the moon. It was the first time in history, that anyone had seen what was there.
A well-read US 'Science' magazine "Popular Mechanics" (or was it "Popular Science?) later claimed it was all a big hoax, and the godless Rooskies had never photographed the far side of the moon.
Well, 5 or 10 years later the US sent photo missions around the moon and strangely found that their photos seemed to verify that the back of the moon looked just like the original USSR photos.
I don't know if there was ever any attempt to rename "Mare Moscovium" (excuse the spelling), or other features already named after great socialist scientists, as "Mare Washingtonium", or "Sea of Dulles", but it's too bad the Fox network wasn't around then....
Ummm.. the last time a big 18-wheeler went by me, I noticed a lot of DIRTY BLACK SMOKE coming out of the smokestack behind his cab.
I had to roll up my car windows until the bastard was well down the road!
Hey, what was this stuff- blackened cajun fish?
And almost every city BUS I see, is usually blowing loads of these black particulates out of their exhaust.
Gosh! Why dont these trucks and buses convert their engines to Diesel?
Your mission, if you are willing to accept it: Get them to install your Diesel engines!
It wasn't just some little 'human-interest' article tucked away on page 8.
Saturday's Montreal Gazette is kind of like the New York Sunday Times.
Well, kind of... (LOL) "Remember, friends- if it's Canadian, it's GOT to be Provincial!"
Perhaps it was a just a slow news day. But that's no excuse.
Can you imagine this water-brained headline as the front page header of the New York Sunday Times?
I used to have a subscription to the Montreal Gazette, but gave it up. One of the reasons was this increasing usage of "National Enquirer" type stuff. Indeed, the Montreal Gazette is sold at the supermarket checkout counter in the Quebec small town where I live.
I actually bought this issue. I think I'll keep it as a memento.
It's the HEAT, dummy!
Currently it takes a LOT of energy to make Hydrogen through electrolysis. All this lost energy shows up as heat in our atmoshpere, not to mention the heat generated from the Nuclear Power plants.
In any event, most hydrogen is currently made from the reformation of methane. And that methane really has to want to reform. More heat.
And when it's pointed out that the reformation of methane produces a LOT of CO2 (a greenhouse gas), not to mention more heat, everyone seems to mumble "uhhh.. we'll sequester the CO2. Yes, let's sequester it..."
Well...
Do we plan on getting it from a hydrogen well? Hmmmnn..
Gosh! Someone told me there's a lot of it in water! We can just get it from that!
There- THAT was simple!
On the other hand, my last giant chick escaped while I was cutting my toenails.
The scissors accidentally punctured her, she farted once, flew around in circles, and then shot out the open window.
All in all, I'd still prefer Anna-Nicole. She is no dinosaur. Yet.
Any truth to the rumour that Lexmark hopes to use Blu-Ray in their new laser printers (and possibly inkjets too!), and the laser will be part of the cartridge? I LOVE cross-posting!
Many years ago I "shared" a hottub (figuratively speaking, of course) with this rotund fellow, and he seemed a very pleasant,if perhaps an excitable chap.
I am sure most of his comments are due to
stress, and if recent events seem to bode ill,
I look forward to MS and all their latest triumphs.
Let us cut him some slack, until he recovers.
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I got this IQ 'average' thing from a story I read somewhere that one of President Eisenhower's advisors told him about a crisis just after Sputnik went up-
"Fully 50% of our population have below-average IQ!"
Eisenhower was clearly alarmed by this statistic.
But of course there's hope yet- NPR reports that in Lake Woebegon, Minn., all the women are strong, all the men are good looking and all the children are above average.
- "Prairie Home Companion" on NPR.
Lissen, everyone knows (well, the top 50% of us do) that the Apollo moon landings were faked, and of course these new Lunar orbitors will be also!
As proof, I offer you the fact, not theory, that fully 50% of the American people are below average intelligence. Do you think any OTHER country on this planet exhibits these dismal intellectual statistics? How could the USA have ever gone to the moon with this average IQ level?
For that matter, there is no such thing as North America (or South America). We "North Americans" number no more than about 35,000 deluded people, and we live in a large compound in France.
Yes, FRANCE, Dammit! Get used to it. It's time someone spoke up against this "Theory of Columbus" !
I remmeber a copy of Pop Mech (or was it Pop Science?) that I read perhaps 30,.. well, probably 40 years ago, published just after the Luna-1 (I think that was the name) went around the Moon and photographed the FAR SIDE OF THE MOON for the first time.
Humans actually got to see what was on the other side!
Of course those pesky commies named the various Lunalogic features there after Soviet heroes- Crater Mendeleyev, Mare Moscovium, Sea of Lenin, etc.
The rag in question claimed it was all a big hoax.
Well when NASA (with robot cameras) and later US astronauts finally managed to circle the moon, they reported back sadly that the lunagraphic features jived with the original Russian data.
I believe it's still called Mare Moscovium or whatever.
Not long after I gave up reading these trashy magazines.
Oddly they still survive today.
But then, so does General Motors....
- Tony King www.tonyking.tk
I don't have to able to swim faster than the octopus.
I just have to be able to swim faster than YOU!
OOPS! Sorry! It's Hardy's TAXICAB number. I had to go and post from memory without first reading the whole wiki! /. have a correction/self-editing feature ?
Why doesnt
Since everyone is discussing "interesting numbers" (and I say this subjectively)...
Perhaps Ramanujans street address (1729) could have some play here?
It's not exactly in IPV4 format, but maybe it could be fitted into an IPV6?
-Tony (aqk) www.tonyking.tk
When the day comes when every tractor and piece of machinery on the mega-corp biofuel 'farm' is first completely powered by Ethanol and NOT gasoline, and then WHAT'S LEFT OVER is sold to us, I'll believe its a real alternative.
i.e.- the bio-fuel production must be self-sustaining.
Until then, I suspect we are just using up more fossil fuels to produce this so-called 'green' fuel....
But that's OK- politicians and big agro-business need an agenda.
And besides, it makes us feel all warm and fuzzy to fill our gas tanks with this stuff, right?
As a systems programmer, I used to spend HOURS watching the platters spin, the arm/head assemblies move in and out, and feel that sexy big drive vibrate as the computer slowly generated an operating system from a tape.
Bonius: The TAPE drives even had windows!
The IBM 3330 disk drives (and their OEMs) had all of 100 Meg as I recall, and we could even open the window, (while the heads were retracted of course), take out the platters and swap the whole disk assemblies back and forth.
Now why can't we do this with our current WD, Seagate and Maxtor drives?
After putting on my manager's hat:
Sounds good to me!
But how much will you charge to install it?
For some reason, they always laughed at me when I went to the local disco
wearing my stylish Aluminum-Foil-Deflector-Beanie!
But NOW, no one will even know!
Maybe I'll finally pick up a chick after all these years!
I sure do miss them cow-orkers!
I remember, as a kid in the early '60s (late '50s?) the Russians photographed the back side of the moon. It was the first time in history, that anyone had seen what was there.
A well-read US 'Science' magazine "Popular Mechanics" (or was it "Popular Science?) later claimed it was all a big hoax, and the godless Rooskies had never photographed the far side of the moon.
Well, 5 or 10 years later the US sent photo missions around the moon and strangely found that their photos seemed to verify that the back of the moon looked just like the original USSR photos.
I don't know if there was ever any attempt to rename "Mare Moscovium" (excuse the spelling), or other features already named after great socialist scientists, as "Mare Washingtonium", or "Sea of Dulles", but it's too bad the Fox network wasn't around then....
Dang it all!
But are they celebrating in Kentucky or Illinois ?
Ummm.. the last time a big 18-wheeler went by me, I noticed a lot of DIRTY BLACK SMOKE coming out of the smokestack behind his cab.
I had to roll up my car windows until the bastard was well down the road!
Hey, what was this stuff- blackened cajun fish?
And almost every city BUS I see, is usually blowing loads of these black particulates out of their exhaust.
Gosh! Why dont these trucks and buses convert their engines to Diesel?
Your mission, if you are willing to accept it: Get them to install your Diesel engines!
It wasn't just some little 'human-interest' article tucked away on page 8.
Saturday's Montreal Gazette is kind of like the New York Sunday Times.
Well, kind of... (LOL) "Remember, friends- if it's Canadian, it's GOT to be Provincial!"
Perhaps it was a just a slow news day. But that's no excuse.
Can you imagine this water-brained headline as the front page header of the New York Sunday Times?
I used to have a subscription to the Montreal Gazette, but gave it up. One of the reasons was this increasing usage of "National Enquirer" type stuff. Indeed, the Montreal Gazette is sold at the supermarket checkout counter in the Quebec small town where I live.
I actually bought this issue. I think I'll keep it as a memento.
Sigh...
... um.. see #1 above.
Sigh indeed! Here we go again...
One does not expect EVERYONE here to write English properly.
1. Let's assume the guy is German or Brosnian or Lathuvian or (shudder) French.
Please cut him some slack. Could YOU speak HIS language eloquently?
2. Now if he's British- well he should jolly well be chastised.
3. If perhaps he's Australian, tie his kangaroo down,mate!
4. If Canadian, gee...some of us don't quite speak properly at times, do we, eh? Sorry!
5. If he's American,
Ever so Slightly more...
And it will continue to be so, except for the followers of P.T.Barnum
It's the HEAT, dummy! Currently it takes a LOT of energy to make Hydrogen through electrolysis. All this lost energy shows up as heat in our atmoshpere, not to mention the heat generated from the Nuclear Power plants.
In any event, most hydrogen is currently made from the reformation of methane. And that methane really has to want to reform. More heat.
And when it's pointed out that the reformation of methane produces a LOT of CO2 (a greenhouse gas), not to mention more heat, everyone seems to mumble "uhhh.. we'll sequester the CO2. Yes, let's sequester it..."
Well... Do we plan on getting it from a hydrogen well?
Hmmmnn..
Gosh! Someone told me there's a lot of it in water! We can just get it from that!
There- THAT was simple!
Alas, a typical comment from someone who's a couple of digits short from being a golden meanie... Sometimes it helps to fib, O natchie!
On the other hand, my last giant chick escaped while I was cutting my toenails. The scissors accidentally punctured her, she farted once, flew around in circles, and then shot out the open window. All in all, I'd still prefer Anna-Nicole. She is no dinosaur. Yet.
Any truth to the rumour that Lexmark hopes to use Blu-Ray in their new laser printers (and possibly inkjets too!), and the laser will be part of the cartridge?
I LOVE cross-posting!
Is there any truth to the rumour that Lexmark will soon be getting onto the blu-ray bandwagon? And you MUST buy a cartridge to use the player?
Many years ago I "shared" a hottub (figuratively speaking, of course) with this rotund fellow, and he seemed a very pleasant,if perhaps an excitable chap. I am sure most of his comments are due to stress, and if recent events seem to bode ill, I look forward to MS and all their latest triumphs. Let us cut him some slack, until he recovers.
Just one.
But I think he moved to Florida.