it's easier to have it be behind the label actually, with the secondary chemical there in a wrap bag, then you have a transparent tear tag you pull up gently. depends on the chemicals, though. some are semi-stable, and you then put an ignitor in the cap (perfect size), with a tear tab top and it sets off.
again, there are many ways, I tend to prefer gels in toothpaste myself. brings new meanings to the phrase, brushing your teeth.
as I've said, the main thing is that: a. they are trained b. they know what they're doing c. there are many ways to do this d. noone is checking the checked luggage even today e. no port security f. waste of fricking paranoia IMHO.
Ok you do it an a plane washroom that is bouncing about the sky and that every one elas is trying to get in. But then you can probably pee statnding up in said washroon too and hit the bowl every time.
Actually, it's fairly simple to do that. Just use your legs so that they are firmly against the side walls (feet) and lean forward with your palm (non-holding) forward so that you're at an angle. Then use the other arm to properly aim. Works like a charm.
Yeah, learned it in the military, having to p out that small hole they give you there. Fun being strapped into the webbing though.
I said, properly trained. That's why they were doing a dry run.
Now, for fun, want to guess how you do it upside down?
To an engineer a technical problem is fun. To a non-engineer a technical problem is impossible.
It only makes sense, in rebuilding the damaged New Orleans, that they would be laying the new tech, rather than lay current standard and have to rip it up in just two to four years.
My brother is a high-speed cable manager in an oceanfront area of California, and when they get a corroded connection, they find it's cheaper to just lay a new line than to try to fix it.
Actually, I've got one and I think that it will appeal to anyone on/. who is sick of upgrading and troubleshooting their PC to play the latest PC games. Granted, that may be a small number around here
I agree. I'm sick of having to buy or upgrade my PC every time a new game I'm interested in comes out.
You just need a sealed unit, so that any odors don't escape, it's not that difficult.
However, depending on your mixing process, you might set it off if you're not trained in proper handling. But, from every account I've ever seen, they appear to be well trained and versed in how to use explosives.
That's the problem, quite frankly.
Now, all that said, you're still safer on a plane than in a car, even with all these risks, and you still should refuse to live in unnecessary fear. Most such problems can be handled by tossing a blanket or a thick coat on top of the terrorist and pinning him down until he's subdued by the flight crew.
ah, good point. My point was that I also not only don't need to but the 360, and am going to buy the Wii, because the games are more fun.
But I'm sure as heck not spending $5000 on an HDTV, massive speakers, and other things I have no interest in - even if they "make the xBox360 experience better". I can kind of see why having an add-on for FPS that's more weapon-like might make sense, but I'm still not interested.
I'll wait until all this costs (total package) way less than $500 instead of $5000, quite frankly.
It was live video on CNN today that they found a suspicious container shipment, and they didn't have the bomb-detecting equipment there.
I should point out, like many other professionals, that it is fairly easy to make said explosives undetectable using a clean room with non-permeable plastic sealant. Still works just as well in going boom, of course, but you need to have an oxygen-rich explosive or one that requires certain ignitors. Also, certain "safe" chemicals, when mixed, or ignited beyond a certain thermal limit, will still explode real good, and if you have a nice "dirty bomb" payload, it still works fine.
Don't believe all the industry hype, you never will be safe, but you don't have to live in fear. More people die of sunstroke in northern states than have ever been at risk from terrorist bombs in the USA.
It's interesting that they project that, but at the very same time, starting with an article on the front page of today's print edition of the Wall Street Journal, I see that they're projecting increased outsourcing to India.
Not that it's not possible to have "increased hiring by CIOs" and outsourcing, as they'll be "hiring" the outsourced jobs, which a handy graph in the same edition shows is where certain major firms have been "expanding".
Given that a recent scientific study showed that talking on a cell phone while trying to do anything else is like (or worse than) driving drunk, I'd say the legal age for cell phones should be the same as the legal age for drinking.
Which if you live in the UK or France is great, but in the antiquarian US, it's not so great.
dude, I'm not going to spend more than $300 on my HDTV. My first degree was Business, with Sales and Marketing as my cores. I'm not going to shell out $2K for something that will cost $300 in two to three years.
But hey, if you want to stick with the 19" CRT and keep telling yourself how much more "fun" you're having than the rest of us, knock yourself out!
Umm, my TV is at least 24 inch. It works fine as is with just a GameCube, an xBox, and a PS2. I think the Wii will be even cooler, but the game selection for the 360 just underwhelms me - I don't really care about sports (unless I'm playing, then I LOVE it, or watching baseball at the Mariner's stadium) and I don't care about car races and FPS bores me to tears (used to be in the Army, too much like work and too unrealistic, nobody screams and moans, no smell or bullets whizzing past your head, no explosions right next to you).
1. so you can see up close the pimply teenagers trash talking you while you're playing Live
2. so you can see the not dressed over 40 guys playing WoW as skimpily clad young women with breasts defying gravity and basic physics
3. so you can see pics of your second cousin twice removed (you know, the really ugly side of the family) from the birthday party your mom made you watch.
Um, no thanks. I mean, I'm glad this is a Seattle story and all, but really, no interest at all here on my side.
um, maybe I should just get that Wii and have a bunch of fun, instead? I mean, after shelling out $1999 for a decent 1080i or 1080p LCD HDTV, adding on say $2000 for speakers they recommend, I mean, I could have bought a cluster of Linux laptops running off a cluster of Linux servers for that lot...
Or spent less than $300 total for a Wii and a nice bundle of games and enjoyed myself a lot more.
1. Price increases (retail) in games for xBox360, PS3, and Wii (from say $30 to $50 or more) mean that game shipment revenues will automatically be higher, not that more games are sold.
2. New boxes like the Wii, xBox360, and PS3 mean lots of people buying new games - my son was just playing Psychonauts for the PS2 - he picked up a PS2 new for $50 and got the game from his aunt this past Christmas - most games he plays are used or borrowed ones from friends right now.
3. Expanding gaming universe from casual gamers, more women and girls playing Nintendogs, and old folks playing brain games to fend off Alzheimers.
OMG, if people can come to my town anytime without my knowledge, can they dig up my fossils? Buy out all the furniture at Nook's?
I can just see me now, obsessively getting up an hour early just so I can beat everyone else in the whole world to my town each morning. This could be very bad.
Well, yes, but you'd have to enter the Friend codes for everyone in the whole wide world.
The only people that could visit your towns would those who you gave your friend code to - and likewise, they'd be the only people you could visit.
I suspect they would also have some nice downloads, like the cherries and the strawberries, at the root website.
Sadly, when the board is found to have defrauded and misled investors by doing things like this, the penalty for it, most often, is to fine the company, i.e. its investors.
We do, actually, have a method of dealing with this, in fact, quite a few.
One, is a civil trial for theft. With awarded damages (treble in this case, as I recall, due to Sarbanes-Oxley).
Second, is federal or state fines for the CEOs and execs who steal the money from the shareholders.
However, I should point out that more than 80 percent of the CEOs and execs who steal the money and are fined, never pay the fines.
Or, in the case of some, they pretend to die of a heart attack after a visit to an island famed for zombie drugs, and after much money had disappeared overseas in numbered accounts... like oh, a certain Enron CEO.
In a print edition of the Wall Street Journal, they had (think it was D1, but the cover of one of the inside sections) a fairly lengthy article yesterday, and another lengthy one on Saturday (the weekend edition), on how Sarbanes-Oxley and back-dated options are in fact serious problems and most of the CEOs and senior execs who were so upset at options expensing being a balance sheet cost for tech businesses later turned out to be the people using back-dated options to steal money from the shareowners of the company.
So, you may call it a witch hunt. I'll call it going after employees who steal from me, thank you very much.
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The main reason I'm "switching" from Xbox to Wii is that I couldn't find one single game for the Xbox that I liked so much I kept playing it.
Same here. And they'll have Spore on the Wii. Until then, I'll just learn how to fish and hop from star to star.
probably the best bet is just pick them up in a bundled package at CostCo right before Thanksgiving.
less problem, cheaper price.
dang dang dang dang!
Must have Wii!
why do you think I mentioned the plastic insert?
it's easier to have it be behind the label actually, with the secondary chemical there in a wrap bag, then you have a transparent tear tag you pull up gently. depends on the chemicals, though. some are semi-stable, and you then put an ignitor in the cap (perfect size), with a tear tab top and it sets off.
again, there are many ways, I tend to prefer gels in toothpaste myself. brings new meanings to the phrase, brushing your teeth.
as I've said, the main thing is that: a. they are trained b. they know what they're doing c. there are many ways to do this d. noone is checking the checked luggage even today e. no port security f. waste of fricking paranoia IMHO.
use your elbows. or just have a plastic pop bottle, take a small plastic see-thru insert, pour in.
not hard, try doing upside down in a severe wind on top of a mountain. now that's fun.
I mean, seriously, every article I read in the Wall Street Journal says that that's not true, that in fact it will be Nintendo then Sony then Microsoft - except in the US, where it will be Nintendo then Microsoft then Sony.
Do you think they'll share?
Ok you do it an a plane washroom that is bouncing about the sky and that every one elas is trying to get in. But then you can probably pee statnding up in said washroon too and hit the bowl every time.
Actually, it's fairly simple to do that. Just use your legs so that they are firmly against the side walls (feet) and lean forward with your palm (non-holding) forward so that you're at an angle. Then use the other arm to properly aim. Works like a charm.
Yeah, learned it in the military, having to p out that small hole they give you there. Fun being strapped into the webbing though.
I said, properly trained. That's why they were doing a dry run.
Now, for fun, want to guess how you do it upside down?
To an engineer a technical problem is fun. To a non-engineer a technical problem is impossible.
oops, sorry, got my tags messed up.
If you look at the print edition (sorry, get it delivered at home) of the Wall Street Journal, you'll see an article entitled Cable Industry May Need to Spend Heavily on Broadband Upgrades, which points out that all cable-television providers will very soon need to upgrade their entire networks with fiber optic cables direct to every home.
It only makes sense, in rebuilding the damaged New Orleans, that they would be laying the new tech, rather than lay current standard and have to rip it up in just two to four years.
My brother is a high-speed cable manager in an oceanfront area of California, and when they get a corroded connection, they find it's cheaper to just lay a new line than to try to fix it.
Actually, I've got one and I think that it will appeal to anyone on /. who is sick of upgrading and troubleshooting their PC to play the latest PC games. Granted, that may be a small number around here
I agree. I'm sick of having to buy or upgrade my PC every time a new game I'm interested in comes out.
You just need a sealed unit, so that any odors don't escape, it's not that difficult.
However, depending on your mixing process, you might set it off if you're not trained in proper handling. But, from every account I've ever seen, they appear to be well trained and versed in how to use explosives.
That's the problem, quite frankly.
Now, all that said, you're still safer on a plane than in a car, even with all these risks, and you still should refuse to live in unnecessary fear. Most such problems can be handled by tossing a blanket or a thick coat on top of the terrorist and pinning him down until he's subdued by the flight crew.
yeah, gotta admit I love that part.
ah, good point. My point was that I also not only don't need to but the 360, and am going to buy the Wii, because the games are more fun.
But I'm sure as heck not spending $5000 on an HDTV, massive speakers, and other things I have no interest in - even if they "make the xBox360 experience better". I can kind of see why having an add-on for FPS that's more weapon-like might make sense, but I'm still not interested.
I'll wait until all this costs (total package) way less than $500 instead of $5000, quite frankly.
It was live video on CNN today that they found a suspicious container shipment, and they didn't have the bomb-detecting equipment there.
I should point out, like many other professionals, that it is fairly easy to make said explosives undetectable using a clean room with non-permeable plastic sealant. Still works just as well in going boom, of course, but you need to have an oxygen-rich explosive or one that requires certain ignitors. Also, certain "safe" chemicals, when mixed, or ignited beyond a certain thermal limit, will still explode real good, and if you have a nice "dirty bomb" payload, it still works fine.
Don't believe all the industry hype, you never will be safe, but you don't have to live in fear. More people die of sunstroke in northern states than have ever been at risk from terrorist bombs in the USA.
It's interesting that they project that, but at the very same time, starting with an article on the front page of today's print edition of the Wall Street Journal, I see that they're projecting increased outsourcing to India.
Not that it's not possible to have "increased hiring by CIOs" and outsourcing, as they'll be "hiring" the outsourced jobs, which a handy graph in the same edition shows is where certain major firms have been "expanding".
Results matter, not spin.
Given that a recent scientific study showed that talking on a cell phone while trying to do anything else is like (or worse than) driving drunk, I'd say the legal age for cell phones should be the same as the legal age for drinking.
Which if you live in the UK or France is great, but in the antiquarian US, it's not so great.
dude, I'm not going to spend more than $300 on my HDTV. My first degree was Business, with Sales and Marketing as my cores. I'm not going to shell out $2K for something that will cost $300 in two to three years.
But hey, if you want to stick with the 19" CRT and keep telling yourself how much more "fun" you're having than the rest of us, knock yourself out!
Umm, my TV is at least 24 inch. It works fine as is with just a GameCube, an xBox, and a PS2. I think the Wii will be even cooler, but the game selection for the 360 just underwhelms me - I don't really care about sports (unless I'm playing, then I LOVE it, or watching baseball at the Mariner's stadium) and I don't care about car races and FPS bores me to tears (used to be in the Army, too much like work and too unrealistic, nobody screams and moans, no smell or bullets whizzing past your head, no explosions right next to you).
1. so you can see up close the pimply teenagers trash talking you while you're playing Live
2. so you can see the not dressed over 40 guys playing WoW as skimpily clad young women with breasts defying gravity and basic physics
3. so you can see pics of your second cousin twice removed (you know, the really ugly side of the family) from the birthday party your mom made you watch.
Um, no thanks. I mean, I'm glad this is a Seattle story and all, but really, no interest at all here on my side.
um, maybe I should just get that Wii and have a bunch of fun, instead? I mean, after shelling out $1999 for a decent 1080i or 1080p LCD HDTV, adding on say $2000 for speakers they recommend, I mean, I could have bought a cluster of Linux laptops running off a cluster of Linux servers for that lot ...
Or spent less than $300 total for a Wii and a nice bundle of games and enjoyed myself a lot more.
good point, but the article specifically didn't count them, thus I didn't include that.
I miss Diablo II myself, and hope they port it to the Wii, quite frankly.
1. Price increases (retail) in games for xBox360, PS3, and Wii (from say $30 to $50 or more) mean that game shipment revenues will automatically be higher, not that more games are sold.
2. New boxes like the Wii, xBox360, and PS3 mean lots of people buying new games - my son was just playing Psychonauts for the PS2 - he picked up a PS2 new for $50 and got the game from his aunt this past Christmas - most games he plays are used or borrowed ones from friends right now.
3. Expanding gaming universe from casual gamers, more women and girls playing Nintendogs, and old folks playing brain games to fend off Alzheimers.
Everything else is commentary and hype.
OMG, if people can come to my town anytime without my knowledge, can they dig up my fossils? Buy out all the furniture at Nook's?
I can just see me now, obsessively getting up an hour early just so I can beat everyone else in the whole world to my town each morning. This could be very bad.
Well, yes, but you'd have to enter the Friend codes for everyone in the whole wide world.
The only people that could visit your towns would those who you gave your friend code to - and likewise, they'd be the only people you could visit.
I suspect they would also have some nice downloads, like the cherries and the strawberries, at the root website.
Sadly, when the board is found to have defrauded and misled investors by doing things like this, the penalty for it, most often, is to fine the company, i.e. its investors.
... like oh, a certain Enron CEO.
We do, actually, have a method of dealing with this, in fact, quite a few.
One, is a civil trial for theft. With awarded damages (treble in this case, as I recall, due to Sarbanes-Oxley).
Second, is federal or state fines for the CEOs and execs who steal the money from the shareholders.
However, I should point out that more than 80 percent of the CEOs and execs who steal the money and are fined, never pay the fines.
Or, in the case of some, they pretend to die of a heart attack after a visit to an island famed for zombie drugs, and after much money had disappeared overseas in numbered accounts
In a print edition of the Wall Street Journal, they had (think it was D1, but the cover of one of the inside sections) a fairly lengthy article yesterday, and another lengthy one on Saturday (the weekend edition), on how Sarbanes-Oxley and back-dated options are in fact serious problems and most of the CEOs and senior execs who were so upset at options expensing being a balance sheet cost for tech businesses later turned out to be the people using back-dated options to steal money from the shareowners of the company.
So, you may call it a witch hunt. I'll call it going after employees who steal from me, thank you very much.