We use Epson inkjet receipt printers at my hardware store and we put a small piece of masking tape over the cartridge ink window. We find that we get an extra week or two of use out of a cartridge by covering the ink window. When the ink runs out (i.e. the receipt is blank) we swap the cartridge.
I use PHPGedview for posting my family tree online. You can easily define how much privacy you want to enforce, and most people restrict display of data unless someone has registered. Registration requests come in to my email and I can grant access, allow a person to add updates (which I later approve), etc. It's a very cool package if you have access to a web server that handles PHP.
The reference CD for amazing dynamic range on a popular rock album is Pink Floyd's "The Wall". We can argue about the music, the lyrics, the message, but there's no arguing that the recording, mixing and mastering of this album is second to none in the pop and rock world. The quiet birds chirping just before the girl says "Look mummy, there's an airplane up in the sky" contrast sharply to the smashing of the televisions or the deafening helicopter.
As far as truly loud rock and roll albums, Robert John "Mutt" Lange (aka Mr. Shania Twain) has a long tradition of producing punchy, loud rock albums that still manage to keep a decent dynamic range....Def Leppard, The Cars, even AC/DC albums produced by "Mutt" are layered with music without compressing it beyond listenability (if that's a word).:)
Actually, I wasn't really intending to say you had to be atheist to object to their theories of creationism. I was thinking that an atheist group would just tick them off a bit more. However, it might be funnier if a Christian group went through a ridiculed their theories.:)
Ken Ham (President of Answers in Genesis, sponsor of the museum) would be amusing to watch if he wasn't so scary. There was a segment in the documentary "Friends of God" which showed Ken speaking to a group of children about dinosaurs and evolution. His logical argument to the children was that since scientists weren't around 4,000 years ago but god was then we have to believe god and not the scientists.
"Intelligent Design" groups have been running tours through legitimate museums, providing their own narrative in order to dispute the information provided by the museum displays. Maybe after this museum opens some atheist tour group so do the same thing...take tours through Ken's "museum" and provide scientific narrative to dispute his biblical nonsense.
It will likely become a cool device for geeks to show their grandkids ten or twenty years from now. I predict the initial production run will be the only production run.
What happens to any money you win in the lawsuit?
We're a long way from that, but we'd like to help out the people who have helped us. Obviously a large chunk would go to paying legal fees. Intriguingly, though, since we will know what Project Honey Pot members provided the data that ends up winning the case, maybe we'll be able to send them a little bonus.:-)
I've been running a few of their honeypots for the past two years, so hopefully one of the spammers I "caught" will wind up paying a big time settlement. Sure, it's a pipe dream, but it's my pipe dream.
Demolition crews are often unskilled at everything except demolition. Sure, there might be nice vinyl windows, appliances, etc. in the house, but they have a job to do in a certain amount of time. If they stop to salvage materials then the job takes longer and the boss gets angry. Bulldozers are designed for broad strokes...so it's not surprising that they would just plow through the building without checking the contents first.
The number of protesters at the march was estimated between 250,000 and 500,000, which is a bit more than your 20,000 figure.
Perhaps your 20,000 figure was referring to the Republican convention attendees inside Madison Square Garden and not the hundreds of thousands protesting outside?
Bottom line people, the right to protest DOES not include the right to anarchy, terror and violence
It does, however, include the right to speedy processing if you are arrested.
"senior police officials had said for months that they anticipated 1,000 arrests a day during the convention" (msnbc article).
So police intelligence indicated as many as 1000 arrests per day, the state and courts geared up for the onslaught, and yet the police department decided just to hold everyone in a converted maintenance garage and then release without charging them with anything? Sounds like a bit like a police state to me. Thankfully "State Supreme Court Judge John Cataldo held officials in contempt of court. "These people," Cataldo said of those arrested, "have already been victims of the process.""
So the police had a wealth of info about who they should watch and arrest and yet they went over the top and arrested entire blocks of people.
My brother was one of the 1,800 people held for one or two days at the old vehicle maintenance facility on the west side of Manhattan. Many of these people (including my brother) were rounded up like cattle just because they were walking down a block where a protest was taking place. People were out getting groceries and arrested, with no way to place phone calls, no place to sit, and unhealthy conditions (the police who worked in the facility during the same time period have filed numerous health claims).
So all this data was gathered and used for what...to cordon off a city block with snow fence and arrest EVERYONE in that block?
Ultimately the police likely had no real way to use any of the data, and to keep their Republican guests happy they resorted instead to just rounding up as many people as they could. By the time everyone was released the convention was over. The lawsuits will drag on for years (my brother is suing the city) and cost the city a ton of money.
The police like to boast that there were no disturbances or major incidents during the convention and they take the credit. More likely the reason is that the protestors and the citizens of New York were well behaved, protested peacefully, and even welcomed many of the convention attendees. My daughters (13 and 10 at the time) and I marched in the protest on Sunday during the convention and it was a wonderful day of peaceful expression of our political feelings.
I've also been frustrated by trying to mix and match different music listening formats in the digital age. iTunes music doesn't show up on my Windows Media Center via my Xbox 360 and some WMA downloaded songs can't be listened to on my iPod. I own about 800 LP's and nearly 1000 CD's so I too have fattened the pockets of Sony/BMG/Warner/etc. over the past thirty years. The music industry is due for a collapse of epic proportions...just read today that music sales are down 20% so far in 2007. Here's hoping the entire industry falls apart and artists can start dealing with fans directly.
Correct...I forgot that Napster was p2p without actually hosting the files. However, both Napster and YouTube ran/run servers that make it easy for users to share copyrighted materials (as opposed to decentralized methods like Bit Torrent).
An my "Just like Napster..." quote was really to express my feeling about the ultimate result, which is the demise of YouTube (with a relaunch in a sanitized version...like Napster).:)
Cites please, and only cites relevant towards demostrating how a handful of men could have overtaken 20+ times thier number of potentially armed defendants in cramped quarters. I don't have enough source details on the hijackers to detail their training. However, assuming guns were allowed then one would also assume that the hijackers would have made sure 100% of their group had weapons. One can also assume that the percentage would have been MUCH lower in the passenger group...assume optimistically that 5% of the passengers had guns. The terrorists would have packed extra ammo, the passengers would have just had the six or eight rounds in their weapon. The terrorists would have had the element of surprise as well as the fanaticism/wacky adrenalin factor to start. Their plan would likely be shoot a few passengers, especially the more "military" types, and grab a woman or two and hold her with a gun. Now what do the remaining one or two passengers with guns do? They sit and wait, and the planes crash into the towers.
So guns would not have prevent 9/11, but merely changed the storyline a bit. The point of my original post was to refute the statement that guns on planes would have prevented 9/11.
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We use Epson inkjet receipt printers at my hardware store and we put a small piece of masking tape over the cartridge ink window. We find that we get an extra week or two of use out of a cartridge by covering the ink window. When the ink runs out (i.e. the receipt is blank) we swap the cartridge.
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I use PHPGedview for posting my family tree online. You can easily define how much privacy you want to enforce, and most people restrict display of data unless someone has registered. Registration requests come in to my email and I can grant access, allow a person to add updates (which I later approve), etc. It's a very cool package if you have access to a web server that handles PHP.
The reference CD for amazing dynamic range on a popular rock album is Pink Floyd's "The Wall". We can argue about the music, the lyrics, the message, but there's no arguing that the recording, mixing and mastering of this album is second to none in the pop and rock world. The quiet birds chirping just before the girl says "Look mummy, there's an airplane up in the sky" contrast sharply to the smashing of the televisions or the deafening helicopter.
:)
As far as truly loud rock and roll albums, Robert John "Mutt" Lange (aka Mr. Shania Twain) has a long tradition of producing punchy, loud rock albums that still manage to keep a decent dynamic range....Def Leppard, The Cars, even AC/DC albums produced by "Mutt" are layered with music without compressing it beyond listenability (if that's a word).
And you know this because?
Actually, I wasn't really intending to say you had to be atheist to object to their theories of creationism. I was thinking that an atheist group would just tick them off a bit more. However, it might be funnier if a Christian group went through a ridiculed their theories. :)
Ken Ham (President of Answers in Genesis, sponsor of the museum) would be amusing to watch if he wasn't so scary. There was a segment in the documentary "Friends of God" which showed Ken speaking to a group of children about dinosaurs and evolution. His logical argument to the children was that since scientists weren't around 4,000 years ago but god was then we have to believe god and not the scientists.
"Intelligent Design" groups have been running tours through legitimate museums, providing their own narrative in order to dispute the information provided by the museum displays. Maybe after this museum opens some atheist tour group so do the same thing...take tours through Ken's "museum" and provide scientific narrative to dispute his biblical nonsense.
if we could get rid of "real world" email spam as easily. Bravo to Blizzard for getting this fixed with the recent patch.
You owe me a new keyboard. :)
It will likely become a cool device for geeks to show their grandkids ten or twenty years from now. I predict the initial production run will be the only production run.
From the lawsuit mini-faq:
:-)
What happens to any money you win in the lawsuit?
We're a long way from that, but we'd like to help out the people who have helped us. Obviously a large chunk would go to paying legal fees. Intriguingly, though, since we will know what Project Honey Pot members provided the data that ends up winning the case, maybe we'll be able to send them a little bonus.
I've been running a few of their honeypots for the past two years, so hopefully one of the spammers I "caught" will wind up paying a big time settlement. Sure, it's a pipe dream, but it's my pipe dream.
Demolition crews are often unskilled at everything except demolition. Sure, there might be nice vinyl windows, appliances, etc. in the house, but they have a job to do in a certain amount of time. If they stop to salvage materials then the job takes longer and the boss gets angry. Bulldozers are designed for broad strokes...so it's not surprising that they would just plow through the building without checking the contents first.
The number of protesters at the march was estimated between 250,000 and 500,000, which is a bit more than your 20,000 figure.
Perhaps your 20,000 figure was referring to the Republican convention attendees inside Madison Square Garden and not the hundreds of thousands protesting outside?
I doubt that your daughters, at that time, had any "political feelings" that you didn't give them. So much for independent thought.
Yes, children are so easy to mold, especially as they approach the teenage years. Ask any parent.
Bottom line people, the right to protest DOES not include the right to anarchy, terror and violence
It does, however, include the right to speedy processing if you are arrested.
"senior police officials had said for months that they anticipated 1,000 arrests a day during the convention" (msnbc article).
So police intelligence indicated as many as 1000 arrests per day, the state and courts geared up for the onslaught, and yet the police department decided just to hold everyone in a converted maintenance garage and then release without charging them with anything? Sounds like a bit like a police state to me. Thankfully "State Supreme Court Judge John Cataldo held officials in contempt of court. "These people," Cataldo said of those arrested, "have already been victims of the process.""
So the police had a wealth of info about who they should watch and arrest and yet they went over the top and arrested entire blocks of people.
Sorry, you're right. How silly of me to think I could make a difference. Please arrest me before I make a fool of myself again.
My brother was one of the 1,800 people held for one or two days at the old vehicle maintenance facility on the west side of Manhattan. Many of these people (including my brother) were rounded up like cattle just because they were walking down a block where a protest was taking place. People were out getting groceries and arrested, with no way to place phone calls, no place to sit, and unhealthy conditions (the police who worked in the facility during the same time period have filed numerous health claims).
So all this data was gathered and used for what...to cordon off a city block with snow fence and arrest EVERYONE in that block?
Ultimately the police likely had no real way to use any of the data, and to keep their Republican guests happy they resorted instead to just rounding up as many people as they could. By the time everyone was released the convention was over. The lawsuits will drag on for years (my brother is suing the city) and cost the city a ton of money.
The police like to boast that there were no disturbances or major incidents during the convention and they take the credit. More likely the reason is that the protestors and the citizens of New York were well behaved, protested peacefully, and even welcomed many of the convention attendees. My daughters (13 and 10 at the time) and I marched in the protest on Sunday during the convention and it was a wonderful day of peaceful expression of our political feelings.
I've also been frustrated by trying to mix and match different music listening formats in the digital age. iTunes music doesn't show up on my Windows Media Center via my Xbox 360 and some WMA downloaded songs can't be listened to on my iPod. I own about 800 LP's and nearly 1000 CD's so I too have fattened the pockets of Sony/BMG/Warner/etc. over the past thirty years. The music industry is due for a collapse of epic proportions...just read today that music sales are down 20% so far in 2007. Here's hoping the entire industry falls apart and artists can start dealing with fans directly.
Oh my...my new favorite worst site. Thanks for sharing. :)
Hey John3? 1999 called and they want their joke back.
Touche.
The goggles...they do nothing!
This appears to be it.
Oh, and Ms. Shell, 1996 called. They want their website design back.
PS - By clicking on the link above you are agreeing to all the stuff Ms. Shell posted on her site.
Correct...I forgot that Napster was p2p without actually hosting the files. However, both Napster and YouTube ran/run servers that make it easy for users to share copyrighted materials (as opposed to decentralized methods like Bit Torrent).
:)
An my "Just like Napster..." quote was really to express my feeling about the ultimate result, which is the demise of YouTube (with a relaunch in a sanitized version...like Napster).
YouTube is hosting the material, so ultimately Viacom will win.
Sure, YouTube is a cool idea and users love it, just like Napster was a hit with users. It's the darn content creators who are up in arms.
So guns would not have prevent 9/11, but merely changed the storyline a bit. The point of my original post was to refute the statement that guns on planes would have prevented 9/11.
Flight 93 had only 40 people on board, three of them terrorists. It was actually the flight with the fewest number of passengers.